Josh English wrote:
> 
> I am close to finalizing my IRTC animation entry for this round and I
> have a few questions about getting a decent quality on the animation
> when I encode it.
> 
> I am planning on a 320 by 240 image size, so should I render at that
> size or render at a larger size and let the MPEG encoder shrink it?
> 

Only 11 days lefts... I hope your files render very quickly.
povray is usually better with AA than oversized shrink, 
so I would render at the final image size, but you may want to
try it...


> How often should I set a keyframe? If I am using 24 frames per second
> and each camera shot is set up in nearly even second intervals, should I
> have a key frame every 12 or 24 frames?
> 

Who care... key frames are usefull for fast forward/backward and reducing
the blurry introduced by prediction.
My hint: renders all your frame (that's the longuest part),
then try both setting and see which one is better
 (more key frames usually increase the file size, so beware of
the 5 Meg limits).

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