[Bf-committers] AVI codec?

[Alexander Ewering]

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, john tuffen wrote:

> Hi,
>  Thanks to the ATI fix, I have been doing much more work in Blender (and the
> sound fix!! When did *that* happen?? - I used to get broken up sound, now it's
> perfect. Maybe a side-effect of the ATI fix?)
>
> Anyway (back to the point): I've got an animation of 2600 frames; and wish to
> render it - I tried AVI Raw, but wasn't able to open the resulting 3+ gig file
> (either in media-player or my video-editing s/w (Vegas)); also tried AVI-Jpeg
> (can open the file, but it's not the greatest quality even at '100'). So, I
> thought I'd try AVI-Codec. However, if I do, there is no 'codec' button (As the
> manual suggests there should be) so I cannot choose a codec to use...
>
> This is on Windows, using a Blender built from CVS about four days ago. I have
> used the codec option before (early 2.3x) on the same machine.
>
> Any hints? Don't know if I should put this in the bug-tracker as it's a CVS
> build :)

It's pretty bad practice to render your animations to AVI files, especially
if you want to further process them, as the compression imposes a great
quality loss.

Also, if your render for whatever reason crashes during the animation, you
can start over.

Furthermore, using AVI files, you will not be able to use renderfarms
(at least not as far as I know).

This means that you should render your animations to uncompressed, seperate
image files (Targa or PNG) anyway ;)

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