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Did I render lossless correctly?
Hi, I want to double check that I rendered my video with the highest possible settings…
It is 30 seconds and 720×480. I had been rendering it as an avi with best settings and it was almost a gig. After reading these forums I learned that a lot of people use quicktime and “animation” best settings.
I rendered it with quicktime animation, best, million + colors, and no key frames every _ seconds.
The reason I doubt if this is lossless is because it is only 189mb and it plays back without skipping. The avi would skip because it was such high quality.
The final output is going to be on a dvd.
Thanks for any help
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4 Replies
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it sounds like everything is correct…
with apple’s lossless animation codec file will often be smaller than uncompressed files. how much smaller depends on the imagery in the footage/render due to the lossless compression.
apple’s lossless compression compresses areas of flat color very well. so in the case of a render that is very graphic in nature, say simple elements moving on a white background, the codec will be able to compress a lot of the image without losing any quality.
in the case of full frame video or renders with a lot of tonal or color variations, the file size difference may be little or not at all.
Kevin Camp
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i missed the ‘millions+’ color depth setting… dave’s right, for dvd authoring you’d rather have that set to ‘milions’
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
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Thanks for the help. I will re-render with millions (no plus). Late last night I was trying to burn this in encore…(never used that program before). I set it to automatic, and tried to match up all the settings, but there were 2 problems:
1.) The black background was grey (maybe just the compression, but I expected better quality since it is only like 200mb).
2.) No audio when played on the computer windows media player. It works on a dvd player. The audio played fine in the “ram preview like thing” of encore.
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You were right about the TV black.
It would be nice to get it to work on a computer like regular dvds do though. I’ll try it in VLC media player.
Thanks!
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