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Hi ______.
I've mae some animations in 640x480, but want to re-render in HD format. I
was wondering what custom resolution that is? I searched on the internet
(Google) but am confused, as there seem to be different resolutions; ie.
720p 1080i 1080p. Anyone render to WXGA monitor? I am concerned about
stretching. Right now, I have a 19" Viewsonic WXGA monitor (cheap, I know,
but less than $200). It looks fine on the PC, but when I output my display
on a TV using s-video, it isn't in a wide screen. Is it a resolution
problem (I am sharing my Win XP desktop)? TIA.
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I had a similar related question. Per my understanding Povray/Megapov has
the capability to spit out files in the HDR format. I use heavy post
processing on the generated frames for my animations. I have not tried it
yet, but the workflow will be something like...
Povray/Megapov -> CinePaint -> (some codec that supports HDR) ->
mpeg/avi/mov
I currently use "Gimp" instead of CinePaint. With "limited" OpenExr format
support in 3.7 it should be easy (easier said than done!!) to import the
generated images into CinePaint and manipulate them. My questions:
1. Has anyone generated animations using HDR output from Povray/Megapov?
2. Can someone point me to a tool that they have used to create avi's or
mpegs or mov files with HDR images? If you have codec specifics that would
be great as well.
Cheers
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"Pansworld" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I had a similar related question. Per my understanding Povray/Megapov has
> the capability to spit out files in the HDR format. I use heavy post
> processing on the generated frames for my animations. I have not tried it
> yet, but the workflow will be something like...
>
> Povray/Megapov -> CinePaint -> (some codec that supports HDR) ->
> mpeg/avi/mov
>
> I currently use "Gimp" instead of CinePaint. With "limited" OpenExr format
> support in 3.7 it should be easy (easier said than done!!) to import the
> generated images into CinePaint and manipulate them. My questions:
>
> 1. Has anyone generated animations using HDR output from Povray/Megapov?
> 2. Can someone point me to a tool that they have used to create avi's or
> mpegs or mov files with HDR images? If you have codec specifics that would
> be great as well.
>
> Cheers
I don't have a problem converting the BMPs to AVI, MPG, or even animated
GIF, as I use a network attached hard drive that an older OS/2 Warp machine
combines the individual frames to animation using it's built-in features for
multimedia. I am not sure if I am rendering each frame at the proper
resolution for HDTV output. TIA.
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cyberspittle wrote:
> I don't have a problem converting the BMPs to AVI, MPG, or even animated
> GIF, as I use a network attached hard drive that an older OS/2 Warp machine
> combines the individual frames to animation using it's built-in features for
> multimedia. I am not sure if I am rendering each frame at the proper
> resolution for HDTV output. TIA.
Check out <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV>.
Thorsten
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Pansworld wrote:
> I had a similar related question. Per my understanding Povray/Megapov has
> the capability to spit out files in the HDR format.
HDR has absolutely nothing to do with HD television. Please read
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV> and
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging> to learn about the
difference.
Thorsten
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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trf de> wrote:
> Pansworld wrote:
> > I had a similar related question. Per my understanding Povray/Megapov has
> > the capability to spit out files in the HDR format.
>
> HDR has absolutely nothing to do with HD television. Please read
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV> and
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging> to learn about the
> difference.
>
> Thorsten
Whoops!!! Maybe I am confused about this thing!!! Anywho thanks for clearing
it up for me.
Cheers
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"cyberspittle" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> "Pansworld" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> > I had a similar related question. Per my understanding Povray/Megapov has
> > the capability to spit out files in the HDR format. I use heavy post
> > processing on the generated frames for my animations. I have not tried it
> > yet, but the workflow will be something like...
> >
> > Povray/Megapov -> CinePaint -> (some codec that supports HDR) ->
> > mpeg/avi/mov
> >
> > I currently use "Gimp" instead of CinePaint. With "limited" OpenExr format
> > support in 3.7 it should be easy (easier said than done!!) to import the
> > generated images into CinePaint and manipulate them. My questions:
> >
> > 1. Has anyone generated animations using HDR output from Povray/Megapov?
> > 2. Can someone point me to a tool that they have used to create avi's or
> > mpegs or mov files with HDR images? If you have codec specifics that would
> > be great as well.
> >
> > Cheers
> I don't have a problem converting the BMPs to AVI, MPG, or even animated
> GIF, as I use a network attached hard drive that an older OS/2 Warp machine
> combines the individual frames to animation using it's built-in features for
> multimedia. I am not sure if I am rendering each frame at the proper
> resolution for HDTV output. TIA.
As Thorsten pointed out my question is completely unrelated to the one you
had posed. HDR image format is a 32 bit image format that allows for a
greater range of intensity levels found in the real world. CinePaint is one
opensource software that lets you edit this type of an image format.
Photoshop CS2 I think now has that ability.
Somehow I misinterpreted your question to be related to HDR.
Cheers
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Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> cyberspittle wrote:
> > I don't have a problem converting the BMPs to AVI, MPG, or even animated
> > GIF, as I use a network attached hard drive that an older OS/2 Warp machine
> > combines the individual frames to animation using it's built-in features for
> > multimedia. I am not sure if I am rendering each frame at the proper
> > resolution for HDTV output. TIA.
>
> Check out <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV>.
>
> Thorsten
Hi Thorston,
That was one of the pages I found confusing. I want to render an animation
for HDTV format. I am unsure which resolution to go with. As it takes a lon
time already for 1024x768 (PC), I don't want to go higher and have to redo
it again. Can you understand my dilemma? Should I go with 480p or 1080p? I
think 480p is 1280x7620 and 1080p = 1920x1080p. what are the advantages?
Should I go with the higher quality or not? So far I have a short animation
(logos) that is short in time, but 360 frames takes my poor machine awhile
to kick out. Thanks in advance.
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cyberspittle wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
>> cyberspittle wrote:
>>> I don't have a problem converting the BMPs to AVI, MPG, or even
>>> animated GIF, as I use a network attached hard drive that an older
>>> OS/2 Warp machine combines the individual frames to animation using
>>> it's built-in features for multimedia. I am not sure if I am
>>> rendering each frame at the proper resolution for HDTV output. TIA.
>>
>> Check out <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV>.
>>
>> Thorsten
>
> Hi Thorston,
>
> That was one of the pages I found confusing. I want to render an
> animation for HDTV format. I am unsure which resolution to go with.
Basically, do you have the hardware to show full-HD movies? You need to
render at 1920x1080, then somehow store the animation and play it back,
while feeding the signal into an LCD TV that has 1920x1080 resolution. It's
not cheap.
If not, go for the "lower" HDTV resolution of 1280x720. This will playback
on your 19" PC monitor perfectly (assuming your PC and videocard are up to
it), and will also be far quicker to render.
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"scott" <sco### [at] spamcoom> wrote:
> cyberspittle wrote:
> > Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:
> >> cyberspittle wrote:
> >>> I don't have a problem converting the BMPs to AVI, MPG, or even
> >>> animated GIF, as I use a network attached hard drive that an older
> >>> OS/2 Warp machine combines the individual frames to animation using
> >>> it's built-in features for multimedia. I am not sure if I am
> >>> rendering each frame at the proper resolution for HDTV output. TIA.
> >>
> >> Check out <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDTV>.
> >>
> >> Thorsten
> >
> > Hi Thorston,
> >
> > That was one of the pages I found confusing. I want to render an
> > animation for HDTV format. I am unsure which resolution to go with.
>
> Basically, do you have the hardware to show full-HD movies? You need to
> render at 1920x1080, then somehow store the animation and play it back,
> while feeding the signal into an LCD TV that has 1920x1080 resolution. It's
> not cheap.
>
> If not, go for the "lower" HDTV resolution of 1280x720. This will playback
> on your 19" PC monitor perfectly (assuming your PC and videocard are up to
> it), and will also be far quicker to render.
Scott,
That was real helpful. I'm going with the 1280x720 on my Viewsonic 19" WXGA
monitor. The 1920x1080 is outside my range. Now I just need to render and
combine the stills. I'm going with a simple 20 frame 1st then I will look
at moving my VGA animations to HD format.
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