This is an animation of the closing hinge posted in P.B.I. along with 
the scene code.

I've not uploaded a movie before so I hope the format is acceptable. I 
can't work out how to get an mpg. I'd love a pointer to a place that 
will tell me exactly what I need to download to turn the huge AVI's that 
Avi Creator gives me into something acceptable for the NG.

Cheers!
Rick

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Rick Measham wrote:
> This is an animation of the closing hinge posted in P.B.I. along with
> the scene code.
>
> I've not uploaded a movie before so I hope the format is acceptable. I
> can't work out how to get an mpg. I'd love a pointer to a place that
> will tell me exactly what I need to download to turn the huge AVI's
> that Avi Creator gives me into something acceptable for the NG.

http://files.divx-digest.com/software/encode/pjBmp2Avi.zip

This will allow you to compress a series of BMP files to a video file using
any codec that you currently have installed on your machine.  I usually use
DivX.

Some people here prefer MPEG1 though, TMPGEnc is recommened by some people,
and is the only one I found that can make the old MPEG1 standard files (it
was used for old VideoCDs ???, I don't know).  Seeing as we are up to, what,
MPEG4 now, it seems a bit weird for some people to still be using MPEG1?
Anyway, there's probably a reason I don't understand hehe.

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"scott" <sco### [at] spamcom> wrote:
> Some people here prefer MPEG1 though, TMPGEnc is recommened by some people,
> and is the only one I found that can make the old MPEG1 standard files (it
> was used for old VideoCDs ???, I don't know).  Seeing as we are up to, what,
> MPEG4 now, it seems a bit weird for some people to still be using MPEG1?
> Anyway, there's probably a reason I don't understand hehe.


One reason is that some folks might use four or five different PC's during
the course of the week, and several of them being shared ones which aren't
dedicated to animation, PC's one might not even have permission or
capability to load up software onto.  In addition,  I've seen actual
computer animation professionals in other fora complain about not being
able to see work made with the latest bleeding edge codec-- so I would not
go with the idea that serious cg people should be able to see **all**  the
codecs.   Furthermore, I've been trying to get povray'ers into csound and
csound'ers into povray, been touting povray in other fora visited by other
cg or merely artistically-minded folks,  and thus I've been linking to
p.b.a.   The person who might be state of the art, leading their field with
computer music or with Photoshop might not be expected to have the latest
movie codecs either.

#declare rant=off;

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gregjohn wrote:
> "scott" <sco### [at] spamcom> wrote:
>> Some people here prefer MPEG1 though, TMPGEnc is recommened by some
>> people, and is the only one I found that can make the old MPEG1
>> standard files (it was used for old VideoCDs ???, I don't know).
>> Seeing as we are up to, what, MPEG4 now, it seems a bit weird for
>> some people to still be using MPEG1? Anyway, there's probably a
>> reason I don't understand hehe.
>
>
> One reason is that some folks might use four or five different PC's
> during the course of the week, and several of them being shared ones
> which aren't dedicated to animation, PC's one might not even have
> permission or capability to load up software onto.  In addition,
> I've seen actual computer animation professionals in other fora
> complain about not being able to see work made with the latest
> bleeding edge codec-- so I would not go with the idea that serious cg
> people should be able to see **all**  the codecs.   Furthermore, I've
> been trying to get povray'ers into csound and csound'ers into povray,
> been touting povray in other fora visited by other cg or merely
> artistically-minded folks,  and thus I've been linking to p.b.a.
> The person who might be state of the art, leading their field with
> computer music or with Photoshop might not be expected to have the
> latest movie codecs either.
>
> #declare rant=off;

I agree completely, but MPEG2 (or DivX for that matter) is hardly cutting
edge technology.  MPEG2 has been around for ages, and DivX has been around
for a few years now, and is used for virtually all *big* video files on the
net.

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