m:studio 2.4d in use on SA Sports Hall of Fame

#361

Windows Media is very good if you use the windows media encoder (free from microsoft) and feed it with uncompressed footage. You need to do some trial and error to find the perfect match between quality and size, but it is very good and the software is unusually pro-friendly for MS.

Also very good is the H264 Codec in Quicktime 7, but only if you encode a .mov file (I use the Quicktime Animation Codec as source) directly from inside the Pro Version of the Quicktime Player. Then it supports two pass encoding and delivers quite nice results that are cross platform (although there is a Windows Media Component for Mac also). For audio I would recommend AAC in that case.
If you encode from AfterEffects or other software, the results are much worse, since they mostly only support the basic features.

As far as stealing goes:
Let the stupid big media companies fear to death over piracy. For creative people, I think you have way more to win than to loose if you show your work in good quality. I was often quite annoyed if I had to watch a miniature with heavy artifacting - what good should that do? And the more people know your work, the more stupid people look who try to use it for their own…
I have read a very refreshing view on a similar issue at Baen.com lately:
http://www.baen.com/library/
And those books are really fantastic if you like SF - Especially the Honor Harrington series starting with “On Basilisk Station”… (The microsoft reader is really good for reading on a Laptop :wink: )

Cheers! :bowdown:

#362

Thanks for the tips guys :thumbsup:

Thomas, that link to baen.com is excellent. This is also how I feel about the matter and this has just cemented it for me… thanks :thumbsup: In fact, I’m about to be involved in an online content marketing project and this is part of the strategy.

#363

Ah - cool it helped :slight_smile:

For me, the text on Baen also cemented my general feeling on the matter, since they actually make good money with that approach, besides “uncriminalizing” their customers.

In fact, I heard all the music I like “for free” first, be it on the radio, in a club or on a tape from a friend. Most authors I know from books I borrowed, be it from friends or from a public library…

I just hope the current raging idiocy about Digital Right Management etc. will soon enough die out. The day I whistle something in the bathtub and are billed for the tune is the day where music will die.
Making your customers into criminals will not make them give any money to you happily in the long run. Things like the root kit from Sony/BMG are just unbelievable.

In germany they really outdid themselves with a mobile prison cell where you could “testdrive” what will happen to you if you download stuff from the web… :rolleyes:
http://www.hartabergerecht.de/index.php?id=63&L=0

Well, there is definitely no restriction on the amount of stupidity those people posses :wink:

Cheers,

#364

Whistling eh? and making bubbles?

#365

Hi Paul, how is the project going? Are you still rendering?

/ Svante

#366

Hi, thanks for asking. Rendering done and delivered last Friday evening. Now just waiting for client feedback and final sign off. :slight_smile:

#367

Cool, so soon we can see the final piece then?:thumbsup:

/ Svante

#368

Most certainly! Once the client signs off, I’ll also get the final sound track to spice things up. The delivery was a whole package of graphic goodies all rendered in m:studio and comped in Digital Fusion. The rendering went rather smooth on 2 dual Xeon machines without a render manager, just manual frame allocation and hit render. Harvested the frames via external USB hard disk - easy and seamless - no render glitches between machines. I should hear this week. It’s been a long haul, but it seems to have worked out perfectly for the client’s schedule.

#369

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