any recommendations for another way to encode? (Message 1 to 5 of 5)
From: Edward Leibnitz
Subject: any recommendations for another way to encode?
Date: 14 Mar 2003 21:46:23
Message: <3e7293ff$1@news.povray.org>
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
I've tried lots of different frame rates and compression quality settings
but nothing seems to make a crisp mpg file.
Is there a better way? I'm not against spending some $$$ on a good
software package, but I've got to get some advice.
Any help would be appreciated.
-Ed
From: Tek
Subject: Re: any recommendations for another way to encode?
Date: 14 Mar 2003 23:00:28
Message: <3e72a55c@news.povray.org>
Edward Leibnitz <lei### [at] rcncom> wrote:
> Is there a better way? I'm not against spending some $$$ on a good> software package, but I've got to get some advice.
Well I've managed to get good results using TMPGenc (http://www.tmpgenc.net/) to
compress straight from the individual frames. The only awkward thing is that you
need to play with the settings to get good results. I find setting it to "2-pass
(vbr)" gets good results, then you can set the target bitrate to balance the
quality against the file size.
My plan is to render the whole animation, then just keep adjusting the
compression quality until I get close to the IRTC size limit!
Hope that helps.
--
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
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
From: Edward Leibnitz
Subject: Re: any recommendations for another way to encode?
Date: 16 Mar 2003 19:07:44
Message: <3e7511d0@news.povray.org>
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
From: Edward Leibnitz
Subject: Re: any recommendations for another way to encode?
Date: 18 Mar 2003 11:58:28
Message: <3e775034$1@news.povray.org>
Did that and it doesn't look any different ... come to think of it ...
I tried this for the Jan 2003 round and it didn't look better either.
thanks anyway ... it's off for better or worse!
-Ed
"Edward Leibnitz" <lei### [at] rcncom> wrote in message
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>> but maybe I should try *.avi at 0%?> anything you might want to know?>> thanks>>> -Ed>
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