From: Peter Draper To: Delbaere, Tim Cc: 3DS Max List (E-mail) <3DSMAX@engramdigital.com> Subject: RE: QuickTime mov files Date: Thursday, April 13, 2000 3:49 AM best (ish) result we had was to change the quicktime configuration to photo jpeg, sorenson video or motion jpeg A, with medium to high quality. basically, we'd save all renders to uncompressed avi's then convert them to quicktime later on. size really wasn't an option... mainly playback speed and file formats supported by the software that was developed. a few of the guys here tested qt out a while back and recommended those settings. no matter what codec / compression algorithm you're using, it's always a toss-up between file size and image quality. personally, i'd use plain and simple mpeg if you can get away with it, as that gave the best file sizes and image quality. just make sure when you encode your avi's to mpeg that the width of the image is divisible by 16 otherwise it won't work cheers pete -----Original Message----- From: Kare Ola Jacobsson [mailto:kare.jakobsson@ectec.com] Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 11:15 AM To: Delbaere, Tim Cc: 3DS Max List (E-mail) Subject: Re: QuickTime mov files Tim, try the sorensen codec instead of the cinepak which is probably what you are using (default for QT I think), or better still render out to frames and then try out different codecs/compression in VideoPost and take it out to *.avi, *.mov etc, Regards Kare Ola Jacobsson ecTec AB Järntorgsg 8, Box 316 701 46 Örebro, Sweden work: kare.jakobsson@ectec.com -- http://www.ectec.com me: kareola@hotmail.com -- http://hem2.passagen.se/kareola/index.html "Delbaere, Tim" wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend the best way of getting an animation out into QuickTime > movie format. I need to get a small file size, but without too much loss of > detail. > > When I render out to avi's , I use Intel indeo codec's that give just the > result I am after, but when I try qt format the file sizes are huge. > > Got any suggestions please. > > Tim Delbaere > Environment Cad Department > Phone (020) 7681 5182 Mail 4TB > Yac (07092) 202677 > > -- > 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