dontevenjoke Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 I have had a tough time experimenting with animation compression and was wondering if there is a place to find the facts... the manual says to check QT help but I can't find much there. Example of my problem... I try to compress using h264 but just get a fuzz...am I missing some software other than QTime or are my settings wrong? Any help is appreciated. Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted July 17, 2007 Share Posted July 17, 2007 http://developer.apple.com/cgi-bin/search.pl?q=animation%20compression&num=10&site=(quicktime) H.264: http://developer.apple.com/documentation/QuickTime/Conceptual/QT7Win_Update_Guide/Chapter02/chapter_2_section_7.html If you're not already member just create a User & Pass. Quote Link to comment
dontevenjoke Posted July 18, 2007 Author Share Posted July 18, 2007 So, if I just choose the compression from the animation drop down menu it should be successful? I can't seem to get any to work other than 'Animation' (which turned a 90 second animation into 1.01gig or 'Video' (which was compressed to about 90Meg but bad quality). To use sorensen or h264 do you need any other software? I just got error messages or worse, a shut down of OS. Thanks, Quote Link to comment
islandmon Posted July 18, 2007 Share Posted July 18, 2007 Got to hand it to Pixar ... animation can become totally frustrating...h264 requires QuickTime 7.1 . Basically, you need to control for dpi > over all size, frame rate, key frame , and quality... a real algebraic problem ... so don't be too frustrated. The different compressors are optimized for various playback protocols & streaming. Begin with a standard 320x240 image sequence and then experiment with the animation options noting the differences between 'graphic > video' and the importance of key frames for clarity. You should be able to stumble upon some bizarre combination that's workable. Quote Link to comment
dontevenjoke Posted July 18, 2007 Author Share Posted July 18, 2007 Thanks Islandmon... I'll give it go. Quote Link to comment
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