From: Chad Gipson To: William Waizenegger ; 3dsmax <3dsmax@engramdigital.com> Subject: Re: How to get it reeeeelly small? Date: Monday, April 24, 2000 7:14 AM One other benefit of using Media Cleaner Pro. It does a really good job of maintaining the data rate you specify under advanced settings. We have found that using sorenson at 90 k/s produces really acceptable results for 320x240 or less movies. We also seldom use the 30 fps standard. For most web users, this speed is more than their tired little video cards can handle. 15 or even 12 fps seems to be more acceptable. You might want to try something along those lines with Quicktime Pro or straight out of Max, but don't be surprised if it patently ignores the data rates you specify. BTW, what program are you using to perform your compression? Chad Gipson Somerset Group, Inc. ----- Original Message ----- From: William Waizenegger To: 3dsmax <3dsmax@engramdigital.com> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 4:56 PM Subject: Re: How to get it reeeeelly small? > Hello everyone: > > Again, thanks to all who have come to my aid about compressing > my 1.5 gig animation (QuickTime) to something more web-friendly. > > I'm still having problems, though. It seems that, in order to have as > many people see my animation as possible, mpeg is the way to go. However, I > spent all day yesterday downloading an incredible number of different > shareware/freeware encoders and none really seem up to the task. > > Either they don't bring the file down enough (down to over 100 meg) > or they leave an ugly watermark in the lower right-hand corner unless > I put up over US$ 200 or something. Some were command line based, > but, because of my ignorance at using such things, didn't work out for me > (did I mention that I'm using a Windows NT 4 machine?). And some > left my animation, not only still prohibitively large, they also left it too > lossy. > > So far, the best I've been able to do is a combination of using Sorensen > QuickTime at a resolution smaller than 320x240 at a "poor" compression > setting--giving me 34,155 bytes--and then compressing it farther using > RAR compression--giving me 19,711 bytes. This is still too large for web > distribution. > > I really want to have my little 3-minute animation critiqued by the list but > I just don't get how so many people can get their animation so small > (at 320x240) for downloading. > > Any other ideas? > > Willi Waizenegger > waizen@earthlink.net > > -- > Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: > http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX > List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net > -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net