Re: video compression 2005-04-23 - By T.Hopkins7@(protected)
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Claudia,
Actually I have been in graduate school for the communication arts this past
year and have taken communication related courses including media management,
leadership in communication, an independent study (wrote a screenplay), and a
new communication technology class. I just opted to do an animation for a
project instead of writing a paper. This next fall I am switching schools (to
NYIT), so I will be specializing in computer graphics and animation. I have
always loved animation but I think the Lord of the Rings trilogy of films and
The Tripelets of Bellville pushed me further in that direction. Thanks. Tina
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Hi Tina,
As far as compression goes, it should really be seen as a case-by-case
application. Oftentimes, you *don't want* to compress your files
until you get to the very end of your project when it is going to
output. Conversely, there are other cases where you may need to
compress along the way. Just remember that compression affects
quality along the pipeline and the higher you start your compression
along the production chain, the less options you have if you need to
boost the quality later. The best thing id to go as uncompressed as
you can along the production phase and start the compression during
your output phase. Of course there are always exceptions, but
non-compression will usually give you the most flexibility with
production quality during the onset of a project.
As far as Quicktime goes, for a while now I have been having some sort
of trouble with Quicktime *players* on my XP Pro (sp2) machine (also
on my Win98 box as well). Anytime I would open a Quicktime movie in
the QT player, the transport buttons would not be visible. Only if I
rolled over and clicked the empty space where they should have beeen
located with my mouse, would they appear. I finally gave up when I
discovered Media Player Classic, an open source media player, which
has been very faithful in playing back my QT files.
As far as Quicktime Pro goes, I don't own it yet, so unfortunately I
can not comment on the encoding side of it.
So Tina, what graphics/multimedia courses have you taken so far? Are
you planning to specialize in 3D or graphics/multimedia in general?
Just curious.
Cheers.
Claudia
"Selocic"
- 3D: when 'Flat' just isn't good enough! -
--- In Carrara@(protected), T.Hopkins7@(protected) wrote:
> Hi Claudia,
> Class assignment. I have alot more to learn before I start taking
on clients. My professor already has a copy I gave him burned on DVD
with some individual files. Next time I will know to do Quicktime and
compress each piece of animation and JPEG before I group it together
and compress it some more and compress the audio files. My Quicktime
is acting quirky since I upgraded to Windows XP Pro SP2 from Home XP
SP1. I wonder if anyone else on a PC is having that problem? Thanks,
> Tina
>
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>
> Hmmm, you should be able to get it reasinably lower, I imagine, with
> some setting adjustments. Toying around with it will help.
>
> It seems so far, as if your project is done in a documentary style.
> Is it a client or class assignment?
>
> Cheers.
>
> Claudia
> "Selocic"
> - 3D: when 'Flat' just isn't good enough! -
>
> --- In Carrara@(protected), T.Hopkins7@(protected) wrote:
> > Thank you. I got it down to 10MB using Divx, but it still will not
> upload to the file on Carrara so I will have to play around with it
> more. I have to leave for work soon. Tina
> >
> > -- ---- ------ Original message -- ---- ------
> >
> > Hi Tina,
> >
> > You can simply download the free trail versions of either Dr. Divx or
> > Divx Pro (I think they are for 6 months) and use them to convert your
> > one piece large file to a more web-friendly movie file, without that
> > much quality loss. I have squashed 290MB down to just under 1 MEG
> > without that much quality loss [ all things considered :) ].
> >
> > This would be the simplest route.
> >
> > <http://www.divx.com/>
> >
> > Well, hope that helps.
> >
> > Claudia
> > "Selocic"
> > - 3D: when 'Flat' just isn't good enough! -
> >
> > --- In Carrara@(protected), T.Hopkins7@(protected) wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have alot to learn on video compression. I have my Tibetan
> > animation and I broke it into 8 sections and apparently each section
> > is still too large to transport on the web. How small do they have to
> > be? After I have done the whole thing and rendered it, is there a way
> > to compress it or does the compression has to be done during the
> > creation stages of it? Hummm..... Thanks for your help.
> > >
> > > Tina
> > >
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