I hope someone here can tell me what I'm doing wrong.  I'm using Animation
Shop 3 to animate the Light Cycle Arena I made with POV-Ray.  When I go to
save the animation I'm asked which compressor I'd like to use for the AVI
file.  I picked something called "Microsoft Video 1" and I get this
animation:

http://www.wwwmwww.com/TRON/arena3.avi

A friend mentioned I would get better results of I used "Microsoft MPEG-4
Video Codec V1".  So I downloaded and installed that codec.  Now when I
save the same frames using that compressor I get:

http://www.wwwmwww.com/TRON/arena2.avi

Obviously I did something wrong.  Can someone please tell me what it was?

Thanks,
Carl

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Carl <car### [at] semisouthcom> wrote:
> A friend mentioned I would get better results of I used "Microsoft MPEG-4
> Video Codec V1".

  Perhaps better, than the other, but by no means best available.

  I would recommend using DivX or XviD instead.

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>   Perhaps better, than the other, but by no means best available.
>
>   I would recommend using DivX or XviD instead.
>
> --
>                                                           - Warp

Well I downloaded and installed this:

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/DivX_Player_Lite_with_DivX_and_XviD_Codec.htm

However Animation Shop 3 doesn't give me an option to save using either the
DivX or the XviD codec.  I still think I may be mising something about the
codec install process.  The MPEG-4 codec I installed does NOT work properly
and neither the DivX or the XviD codecs show up in Animation Shop 3.  The
other option is maybe Animation Shop 3 is just too old to work with these
codecs. If so could you recomend some free software I could use to put
POV-Ray generated frames together to make an animation.

Thanks,
Carl

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Carl <car### [at] semisouthcom> wrote:
> If so could you recomend some free software I could use to put
> POV-Ray generated frames together to make an animation.

  Try http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net/

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