Thursday, March 06, 2008

QT Follow-up: Codecs for Reviews

Hey!

I've been using the Motion JPEG B codec lately. The file sizes are small, the quality is pretty good for animation reviews and XSI, Premiere, MotionBuilder and most of the Autodesk apps deal with it well (won't crash while rendering/capturing). In the Compresser, I'm using Best Depth and Medium for Quality.

PS: I tend to like rendering playblasts/captures as a .mov or a .wmv as opposed to image sequences, because they are easy to drop into an edit and view in a folder. Final renders are ALWAYS image sequences, though. They tend to take a LOT longer and if there's a crash or an issue, you only lose one frame instead of the entire set of frames.

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