Quicktime Q
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- jg_2
Hi guys
here comes a silly question:
is there any difference between Animation Compression and Video Compression when exporting a movie to a Quicktime format?Does my question makes sense?
thank you people!
- airey0
what are you exporting from? (application etc) there are heaps of notes if you google the question but it matters where you are starting as a point of reference.
- jg_20
mh.... after effects. i am just wondering if it is a question of quality. for example, animation can export movies with millions of colors, but video can only export a movie with thousand colors...
at the end i should have a decent dvd with some videos in it....
(later i will work on the authoring stuff, but right now....)
thanks!
- quamb0
animation, if saved at 100% w/millions is uncompressed - best go with that until you then mpg2 it for dvd.
avoid 'video'.
if your dealing with hours of footage, then perhaps do some research as anims are huge files.
- CyBrainX0
What then is the difference between Animation and None.
Animation is much smaller on file size so there must be some kind of compression.
- quamb0
not sure, perhaps similar to how psd files are bigger then tiffs - despite both being lossless.
its what i've learnt, what folk here do as standard, never questioned it really.
- snebold0
Animation compression at 100% quality is lossless. My understanding is that is optimizes file size based on redundant pixel data. It's a good codec for anything with lots of flat color in it like animated titles or cell animation. If you are starting from a video source, you should use mpeg or sorensen for web. If you are authoring a video dvd (as opposed to dvd-ram) you need to use mpeg-2 and it needs to be processed specifically for dvd.