My Orb SFX

sour_jax · Post by **sour_jax** » Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:16 pm

Here's an early test of an orb SFX. The timing isn't right yet but it's still early. It took 13 hours!!! to render though because of the background FX uses particles. what ya'll think?!?
http://handbookforlife.com/files/images/orbtest.mov

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 12:49 am

Very cool!
Perhaps you should compress a little more the movie with another codec or resize its dimensions to be smaller.
40 MB can be so much bytes for someone...
Genete

Post by **Víctor Paredes** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 3:52 am

Genete wrote:Perhaps you should compress a little more the movie with another codec or resize its dimensions to be smaller.
40 MB can be so much bytes for someone...
Genete

yes, i canceled it, 40mb is too much for me.

sour_jax · Post by **sour_jax** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 11:37 am

What codec would be best? and What size?

sour_jax · Post by **sour_jax** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 1:00 pm

Ok I re-rendered it it's down to 18.4MB

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 9:15 pm

sour_jax wrote:What codec would be best? and What size?

h.264 (MPEG-4 part 10) is the best for high resolution, almost lossless and small sizes.
Genete

sour_jax · Post by **sour_jax** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:01 am

Genete wrote: h.264 (MPEG-4 part 10) is the best for high resolution, almost lossless and small sizes.
Genete

I tried h.264 but it wouldn't render, how do you render your stuff w/ h.264?

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:16 am

Are you running Windows? If so, you could use MeGUI or Gordian Knot. Both support H.264. I use both frequently for 2-pass encoding for good file size. Be sure also to install Gordian Knot's codec pack as well.

sour_jax · Post by **sour_jax** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:54 am

thanks just downloaded both I'll have to try them out.

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 2:02 am

This guide may help for Gordian Knot. Just skip all the stuff about DVDs and start from the point where it says to open a .d2v or .avs file. Instead, open your AVI and go from there. (If you're not starting from an AVI, then you can make an .avs file to fool it into thinking your file is an AVI.)
http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/gknot-main2.htm

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:25 am

sour_jax wrote:
Genete wrote: h.264 (MPEG-4 part 10) is the best for high resolution, almost lossless and small sizes.
Genete
I tried h.264 but it wouldn't render, how do you render your stuff w/ h.264?

I encode it with x264(via Avidemux) or with cinelerra. x264 seems to be not compatible with other OS (have to install the codec) and cinelerra works ok but have less render controls (two passes - or I have not discovered it yet

)

sour_jax · Post by **sour_jax** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:47 am

First, do you use .mov or .avi?
Second, I'm currently testing MeGUI and Gordian Knot with little luck

, I keep getting a ffdshow error. I looked at Avidemux and cinelerra too. I think since I'm running Vista nothing is going to work great right now. I'll keep you posted on the progress. Any other suggestions

would be greatly appreciated

For some reason when I compress with XviD MPEG-4 Codec it crashes ASP but the file works fine afterwards.

Touched · Post by **Touched** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 7:54 am

I usually use AVI with either program, but I have used Quicktime .mov a couple of times successfully with both, using that AVIsynth workaround. Which format are you using, and where are you seeing the ffdshow error?

sour_jax · Post by **sour_jax** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:01 am

If I try to do .mov and choose h.264 it "renders" and then won't play what is supposedly rendered.

If I try .avi I choose the XviD MPEG-4 Codec because the DivX Codecs don't work at all, but I'm still trying to work through it to see if I'm doing something wrong.

Genete · Post by **Genete** » Mon Apr 30, 2007 8:35 am

sour_jax wrote:I think since I'm running Vista nothing is going to work great right now

I don't use any flavour of windows (I'm linux fan

) and I have seen a thread here talking about propietary codecs problems with Vista. Perhaps there is the key.
Good luck
Genete