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VSLX
02-08-2003, 11:20 PM
What are the best settings for saving on size and not losing too much quality while rendering quicktime animations in Cinema?

I've never been doing too much of animation, usually only JPEG sequences, but now I won't use that... so I figured to use quicktime instead of AVI.

Or maybe you got some other advices in optimizing my animations for web (maybe to use After Effects)?
pit
02-09-2003, 10:22 AM
Get QT-Pro. Render out uncompressed stills/sequences in whatever format (.tga, .tif etc.) suits you and compress it with the Sorenson codec from within QT-Pro.
AE would use the same codecs, so if you donīt plan to do compositing or other work in AE, you can skip that.
CosmicBear
02-09-2003, 10:55 AM
i agree on quicktime-pro, but can't agree on sorenson-compression. sorenson-compression is for real-life-footage and it makes your movies rather dark. animation-compression or mpg4 suits it way better. although mpg4 is only part of qt 6 and will not play on older qt-versions.

it actually depends on how you want your movie to be published. if you decide to do some postproduction like titles or color-correction you wanna save your animation as uncompressed stills as Pit suggested. in case of color-correction i would even go for 16 bit for each channel instead of 8 bit. makes the files bigger, but more data will be stored in them.

as long as you're working on the files, i would not compress them at all but save them as uncompressed quicktime-files. if you have not enough harddisk-space or a slower maschine you wanna go for animation-compression with 100% quality. this way your files will keep the full quality.
VSLX
02-10-2003, 05:35 PM
All right.... I'm getting QT PRO... but um, I'm kind of curious...
What's the difference between "normal" JPEG and Quicktime JPEG? And what is the use for the selected export options, anyway?

http://vslxperience.com/quicktime.jpg
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