"Hugo Asm" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in news:3f5c5fc4$1@news.povray.org:

> Nice animation. I use VirtualDub too. These are my suggestions:
> 
> Anti-alias but without jittering.
> If you use area_lights, then without jittering.
> No strong color contrasts (will look bad, but filesize stays the same)
> No fine details that are almost like noise, if the camera is moving.
> Smooth movements.

Makes sense...

> Most mpeg codecs will do good when the above advices are followed.
> Standard for this newsgroup is mpeg1 (not possible to encode with
> VirtualDub). Otherwise DivX4 / DivX5 (they are actually mpeg4).

DivX5.1 it will be then...

> Good framerates are 25.0 or 30.0 for smooth movements on most computers.
> Using more frames may actually end up using less space because movements
> between each frame is reduced. So a 15 fps animation may be larger than
> a 25 fps.

Interesting, I will expirement.

> Motion-blur helps reduce filesizes as well, and often looks great,
> unless overdone. But that's another story.

I tried the included motion-blur filter in VirtualDub, it looked to
cartoony. 

From what I can see, one can install all sorts of filters for this prog, I
will be hunting for them soon enough. 

Thanks

-- 
Marc Champagne
marcch.AT.videotron.DOT.ca
Montreal, CANADA

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