Lori Hiatt Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 Hi, Here is my It's a Pitch movie. I am perplexed on how I lost my blue sky and would like to know how to get it back. Look forward to your feedback. Lori Hiatt It__s_a_pitchSide.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 7, 2006 Hash Fellow Share Posted September 7, 2006 Hi Lori, Looks like you got the motion working! The black sky is from having "Alpha channels" on in your render settings AND using the "Animation" codec in your quicktime compression settings. turn them off on this panel and also access quicktime compression settings there [attachmentid=20351] and try these settings: [attachmentid=20349] Vary the KB/sec setting to something like 100 or 200 to vary quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori Hiatt Posted September 8, 2006 Author Share Posted September 8, 2006 HI Robert, Thanks for the info. That fixed it. Is Sorensen Video 3 a better compression than animation for quicktime. I don't know much about compression settings. Lori Hiatt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted September 8, 2006 Admin Share Posted September 8, 2006 Is Sorensen Video 3 a better compression than animation for quicktime. I don't know much about compression settings. Its is better than most but not the best. Sorensen 3 does seem to be the codec of choice for the most part. For these exercises I'd suggest using it. It'll ensure the most people can view your animation too. As you watch other people post their work you'll be able to follow the trends in video compression to hit even higher levels of quality/compression. The H.67 codec seems to be really popular at the moment but requires the latest version of Quicktime to be viewed. Rodney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 8, 2006 Hash Fellow Share Posted September 8, 2006 Is Sorensen Video 3 a better compression than animation for quicktime. Yes. I recommended Sorensen 3 because it compresses quite a bit while retaining decent quality. This is important for files that people will be downloading off the web. It's faster to compress and it also doesn't require the large computing power to play back that H.264 does. This will be less of an issue as people migrate to faster CPUs but we still have users here who can't play H.264 file well. H.264 can make smaller files, though. "Animation" codec's compression is quite poor and makes huge files. It's best use is for footage that you don't want compressed (because you're going to compress it later with some other program), that needs an alpha channel (It's the only QT codec that supports that) and an attached sound track (if one didn't need attached sound, a numbered targa sequence would be a better output choice) and will only be used locally, not posted on the web. Rendering footage that you would later use in a video editing program to make yet another file would be an example of this. "Animation" may be the default because it's first on the codec list and quicktime just automatically goes there when it's first run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori Hiatt Posted September 11, 2006 Author Share Posted September 11, 2006 Great info. I have alot to learn. Thanks! Lori Hiatt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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