From: William Waizenegger To: 3dsmax <3dsmax@engramdigital.com> Subject: Re: How to get it reeeeelly small?--response to Chad Date: Thursday, April 27, 2000 6:00 AM Hey, Chad: Thanks for responding and sorry about the delay in responding. I used After Effects to compress it to Sorensen at 18 fps. The animation has some quick moving scenes and 15 fps were a bit choppy. I brought the (originally 320x240) QuickTime to 250x188 and the audio down to 22.050 kHz/8 bit/mono. I don't remember where I set the "quality" on the compression--probably medium. I had experimented at a whole bunch of different settings there. Anyway, the latest compression combination has the animation down to 25,815 KB, and 15,778 KB after further compression with WinRAR. This is a far cry from the original file size of 1.5 gig, but not enough for web distribution. Unfortunately, I don't have access to Media Cleaner Pro, since I'm doing all of this at school. Thank you for posting. Willi ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Gipson" To: "William Waizenegger" ; "3dsmax" <3dsmax@engramdigital.com> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2000 10:02 AM Subject: Re: How to get it reeeeelly small? > 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 > -- Subscribe/Unsubscribe at: http://mail.engram.net/guest/RemoteListSummary/3DSTUDIOMAX List courtesy of http://www.Engram.net