The term "frame rate" I understand, but what exactly is "key frame rate" ? If I
use different settings for "key frame rate", for example 1 or 10 and keep the
"frame rate" set at 20 per second for instance the speed of the animation stays
the same of course. So what does it do?
What about data rate?
Any other ideas about the avi compression.... what codec settings are best?


Thanks.
Rene




"C.J. - POV User" schrieb:

> Bink is better for mpeg quality animations/movies.
> Frame rate is the number of frames that are displayed per second. Think of a
> flip book. You know the little books that have an image on each corner of
> the page. Each images is slightly different (i.e. the location of an arm or
> leg, a frown turning to a smaile, etc...) Well if you flip the pages and
> look at the images, the images seem to come alive, or animate. The faster
> you flip the pages the faster the animation runs. This is the same idea of a
> frame rate...
>
> Hope that helps
> regards,
>
> Rene <rhe### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> news:39B497F4.F031ED96@hotmail.com...
> > I've tried Smaker too. If I create an AVI there are the same options to
> choose
> > from. Can somebody explain to me what exactly key frame rate and data rate
> > options do? Smaker and Bink look very interesting but I don't really like
> the
> > advertisement at the end of the movie and I really need a format that will
> run
> > from a CD on (almost) ANY system (OK I could make an exe... I agree...
> great
> > option...but...).
> >
> > (By the way what are the differences and advantages between Smaker and
> Bink
> > formats? Which one is better for gray scale animations and which for
> color?)
> >
> > Thanks for your help!
> >
> > Rene
> >
> > "C.J. - POV User" schrieb:
> >
> > > I'm not familar with that tool, I use Smaker by Rad Game Tools. Best of
> all
> > > its free!!!
> > > http://www.radgametools.com/
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Rene <rhe### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
> > > news:39B### [at] hotmailcom...
> > > > I'm trying to create an avi file from a sequence of images using the
> > > > freeware tool pjbmp2avi.exe!
> > > > I want these files to be played from a CD. I've tried Cinepak Codec
> with
> > > > the following settings: Compressionquality 100, Keyframe: 1, Datarate:
> > > > 300 KB/s.
> > > >
> > > > I've also tried other compressions but I can't get it to work. The
> file
> > > > is fine when started from the harddrive. I asume the player loads the
> > > > whole thing into memory first. It's just way to slow (0.2 fps!) when
> > > > running from CD (40x CD drive).
> > > >
> > > > Any suggestions regarding alternate (free) tools for creating avi
> files
> > > > and which settings should best be used would be VERY helpful.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks a lot in advance,
> > > >
> > > > Rene
> > > >
> >

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