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madmenno

01-27-2007, 01:06 PM

Hi i made a video with a scanline render. But when i want to open the avi it just flickers on and off and showing only the first frame. Like a movie of 1 frame.

I did save it correctlly in common render setup. Also i checked active time segment. and i used microsoft Mpeg 4 Video codec V3 to make an .avi.

Plz help me out! It took 15 hours to render this and i got nothing, monday i need to atleast show something to the video editor....

Thnx in advance

scrimski

01-27-2007, 01:44 PM

Never ever render straight into a clip, use uncompressed frame sequences like Tiffs or Targas. Your video editor should be able to handle that.

madmenno

01-27-2007, 04:21 PM

Yup your right!

Just spoke to the guy, he wants .tga's in sequance. Also with alpha passes (as i have no background just a matte/shadow plane.

Also he told me something about aspect ratio, 4:3 and 720*576 pixels (good to know :D) and i have to use 25 frames per second.

Also 72 dpi is standart right? it just means dot's per inch right? so 4:3 would be 10 inches broad and 750 high?

Thnx

scrimski

01-27-2007, 04:26 PM

Also 72 dpi is standart right? it just means dot's per inch right? so 4:3 would be 10 inches broad and 750 high?

No.
Dpi doesn't mean anything in TV, whether you have a telly 150 inches wide or 5 inches wide, there are no more than 720 pixels(when using PAL resolution which you do obviously)

madmenno

01-27-2007, 05:14 PM

So a bigger tv would always make the image more "blurred" in PAL resolution?

But what does DPI mean exactly? Isn't it dot's per inch?

scrimski

01-27-2007, 05:20 PM

Yes. And yes.

madmenno

01-27-2007, 05:29 PM

Great thnx for the info!

madmenno

01-28-2007, 12:26 PM

Can anyone tell me if theres a free program to set all those .tga's in sequence and play the movie? I want to check how it looks befor i sent it to the video editor.

scrimski

01-28-2007, 12:29 PM

Use the RAM-Player or VirtualDub.

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