POV-Ray: Newsgroups: irtc.animations: any recommendations for another way to encode?: Re: any recommendations for another way to encode?

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From: Mark Wagner
Date: 14 Mar 2003 23:27:13
Message: <pan.2003.03.15.04.25.47.785516.265@gte.net>

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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