Hi,
Does anyone have any advice as to how to get a SIMPLE animation (not photoworks nonsense) to save to file type / size that isn't 140MB for 5 seconds of crappy 7.5fps .AVI video?
I wish I were joking...
A) I can't believe .avi is the only option for video export - This isn't 1997
B) How on earth can these 37.5 frames (of crappy jagged-edged frames) @ 1200 X 900 be 140MB?
Any thoughts are welcome!
Thanks!
Mike
Increase the frame rate to 24-30 fps.
Save out individual frames, not directly to an AVI. Then use a program such as QuickTime Pro to create the video. You will have many more options for codecs and compression schemes.
QuickTime Pro is cheap and does a good job creating videos from individual frames.
Cheers,
Anna
Thank you both - I'll keep plugging away at it.
In the meantime I just brought it in the Keyshot - beautifully rendered video @30fps under 1MB.
Ah yes, one of the overlooked ideas that should make it to the top 10 improvements. You can change the frame rate in the animation to 24 or 30 but the only way to get decent output is with the uncompressed avi. Recompression with WMM to squeeze it down 500x is always necessary. It doesn't help that 64bit codecs are hard to come by.