dbott wrote:

> Ok Markus -
> I just emailed you my animation submission. Like I said, this is my
> first time. Tell me what you think......I know I could have added
> a lot more detail.....I watched yours, and you kicked my ass.
> So can you tell me why your 9.5 meg animation is 5 times longer
> than my 9.5 meg animation. Do you use a compression program?
> Just trying to find answers and learn...........

Usually, i'm rendering out the frames as 720x360 (720 means 
it's not going to be re-scaled, just letterboxed when it 
goes to DVD, which has 720x576 size).

I'm a mac guy, so this is a quicktime .mov file, with jpeg 
at maximum quality. About 600 MB for 3:44. I export that to 
DV stream AVI, and copy it over to my PC (haven't found a 
well-working MPEG compressor for mac yet...).

I run that file through TMPEGenc (which has a very 
unscrupulous setting of 320 kbits/sec for video + 32 
kbit/sec mono audio) with an output size of 320x160). I try 
to ignore the horrible compression artefacts :) and that's 
about it.

Without a soundtrack, you may go to 360 kbit video for 9.99 
MB at 3:44.

I've picked that time when i was using Astarte's M.Pack, 
which had a lowest possible 360 kBit preset for that. Ah, 
the days of MacOS 9... long gone, as is M.Pack.

-Markus

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dbott wrote:
> "Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
> news:45ba726e@news.povray.org...
>> Here goes nothing:
>> http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/index.html

OK, David "dbott" Cuny's "Dancing with Moai" is available now.

-Markus

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"Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
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> dbott wrote:
> > "Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in
message
> > news:45ba726e@news.povray.org...
> >> Here goes nothing:
> >> http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/index.html
>
> OK, David "dbott" Cuny's "Dancing with Moai" is available now.
>
> -Markus

oops  --
That's not me. dbott is "Darin"........I emailed my 3 files in win zip,
did you receive them? And, thank you for the explanation on the way
you produce your animation. If you did not receive my files,
I will email a link where you can download them.

Thanx   dbott

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"dbott" <dbo### [at] eastsoundsuitescom> wrote in message
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>
> "Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
> news:45bb7020@news.povray.org...
> > dbott wrote:
> > > "Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in
> message
> > > news:45ba726e@news.povray.org...
> > >> Here goes nothing:
> > >> http://www.asamnet.de/~altendom/irtcstuff/index.html
> >
> > OK, David "dbott" Cuny's "Dancing with Moai" is available now.
> >
> > -Markus
>
> oops  --
> That's not me. dbott is "Darin"........I emailed my 3 files in win zip,
> did you receive them? And, thank you for the explanation on the way
> you produce your animation. If you did not receive my files,
> I will email a link where you can download them.
>
> Thanx   dbott
>
>

Markus
I set up a page where you can get the 3 filles. It is
http://www.eastsoundsuites.com/animation

Thank you...dbott

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dbott wrote:

> oops  --
> That's not me. dbott is "Darin"........I emailed my 3 files in win zip,
> did you receive them? And, thank you for the explanation on the way
> you produce your animation. If you did not receive my files,
> I will email a link where you can download them.

Alright, i'm fetching them now. Should be up in ten minutes. 
Sorry for the name mix-up, i've not yet received your zip 
file. I guess my mailbox isn't half as tough  as i thought, 
or the zip has triggered some over-zealous antivirus blocker 
- come to think about it, if a run-of-the-mill 50 kByte 
virus is nasty, imagine the havoc a 10-MB-virus could wreak ;)

-Markus

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Hi, Markus

Thanks for hosting the files.

-- David "dcuny" Cuny

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"Markus Altendorff" <maa### [at] anthrosphinxde> wrote in message
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> dbott wrote:
>
> > oops  --
> > That's not me. dbott is "Darin"........I emailed my 3 files in win zip,
> > did you receive them? And, thank you for the explanation on the way
> > you produce your animation. If you did not receive my files,
> > I will email a link where you can download them.
>
> Alright, i'm fetching them now. Should be up in ten minutes.
> Sorry for the name mix-up, i've not yet received your zip
> file. I guess my mailbox isn't half as tough  as i thought,
> or the zip has triggered some over-zealous antivirus blocker
> - come to think about it, if a run-of-the-mill 50 kByte
> virus is nasty, imagine the havoc a 10-MB-virus could wreak ;)
>
> -Markus

Cool - Thank you Markus,
It's nice to see it there. Well a pseudo irtc page is better than nothing.
What's up with this guy http://billmarrs.com/ - he is on the irtc
admin team and has an active web page. Has anyone talk to him?

Once again thanx, the page looks great.....

dbott

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dbott wrote:

> It's nice to see it there. Well a pseudo irtc page is better than nothing.
> What's up with this guy http://billmarrs.com/ - he is on the irtc
> admin team and has an active web page. Has anyone talk to him?

I've sent a mail. He's updating his LiveJournal entry rather regularly, 
so i'm hoping we'll hear back from him soon.

-Markus

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Me wrote (replying to a message from dbott in another thread 
about contacting Bill Marrs):
> I've sent a mail. He's updating his LiveJournal entry rather regularly, 
> so i'm hoping we'll hear back from him soon.

I've received his reply (wow, that was quick), but he's not 
had any contact with the IRTC/admins at all for almost two 
years now, and really doesn't want to get re-involved (and i 
fully understand - check his LiveJournal, i guess he has 
enough at hands already, and his priorities set 
differently). He suggested we might need to talk to the 
"master admins" (i.e. POVray.org) about the situation.

Comments?

-Markus

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I've been following this (and the stills thread). If I understand correctly:

* Both the Stills and Animation rounds are weeks overdue.
* There appears to only be a single IRTC admin.
* The IRTC admin hasn't responded to email, the mailing list, or this list.

Is that right? It seems odd that there's not even a backup admin for the
contest.

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