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Rendering and Quicktime 7 issues
Has anyone else had problems with rendering video and playing it back in quicktime 7. I have Tiger 10.4.4 powermac g4 733mhz with 1.2gig ram. Is this too sluggish to play back my quicktime renders from AE. For instance I had a animation with million plus colors full quality and it plays back choppy and freezes, but on my friends comp which is a ppowermac g4 dual 1.4 ghz i believe and on my brothers comp dual 3ghz pc it plays back smooth for the most part. I really need to get this project rendered but nothign that looks decent plays back smooth. Its basically a Tiff picture with particles (snow, fire,smoke) added to it.
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Depends on the size of the movie and what codec you are using. I know you said animation and that should play back without stuttering, but if the movie is too large there may be a problem. I have a 733 G4 and I know for a fact that it won’t play the new h264 720p size movies from the Quicktime site. They play fine on my G5 Dual 2.0
I’d say it’s time to upgrade
regards
rich
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Its terrible how they make the newer software built so they wont run smooth and you need to upgrade. When I use quicktime 6.5.2 everything ran like a gem. The file size isnt that big its an animation thats 9 seconds long and the background is a still matte painting and animated snow and fire and smoke.
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Hi!
I would guess it is the Quicktime codec you’re rendering to that causes the problem. If you output to the “uncompressed”- or “animation”-codecs they will be pretty heavy for your computer to play back smoothly (you’ll need fast harddrives to play them). Try rendering to a DV-codec and see if that helps. If it does, then you at least know what causes the problem…
Good luck!
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animation or uncompressed are codecs that aren’t really meant for realtime playback, but rather for storage or moving between apps of files without quality loss. Which codec to use for your final render meant for delivery/playback depends on what your target medium is. If it’s for playback a computer, use something like sorenson, mpeg1 or mpeg4, H.264, or even divx to compress to a smaller file size and lower data rate so it’s suitable for realtime playback. (if it’s going to DV tape, then obviously you’ll have to convert to DV codec, and for DVD you’d use mpeg2). I’d say first render to animation, then compress this using one of the other codecs and keep the lossless animation for backup purposes.
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Yes I believe the codec dvcpro works well but it changes the tone of the picture I suppose because of compression. It is also a bit softer where as animation is crsip and sharp picture. Speed of Hard drive do you mean rpm’s or the actualy mhz/ghz? I have a lacie 7200rpm d2 drive. If I install quicktime and put the movie on there i wonder if it will playback faster or am I just making this up right now.
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