What appears to work best ...so far .... is to encode the *.avi at 20%
and then  mpg encode at a bitrate of 1200 kbits/sec and vbv  buffer size of
20 and motion search magnitude of 0.


but maybe I should try *.avi at 0%?
anything you might want to know?

thanks


-Ed

"Mark Wagner" <mar### [at] gtenet> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 21:46:57 -0500, Edward Leibnitz quoth:
>
> > I'm entering my second animation contest ... it's already done. Hurrah!
> >
> > BUT .... I'm very unhappy with the quality of the final product due to
> > artifacts in the codec. The other entries I've noticed in previous
> > rounds always look cleaner than mine!
> >
> >  I'm using this method:
> >
> > 1] I render to tga format and then use Dave's Targa animator at 24
> > frames/second.
> > 2] the resulting avi file is then converted into an mpg by avi2mpg
>
> Are you creating a compressed AVI or an uncompressed AVI?  I've gotten
> pretty good results going from BMP -> uncompressed AVI -> MPEG.
>
> --
> Mark

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