#3ds to video
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Even though I have access to some nifty equipment, I have had to try for low
cost solutions for certain projects as well.
One trick that I have done to make my walkthrough animations look better is to
render the first and last frames of the animation on a targa or whatever at a
high resolution and true color (you can send a still image out to tape without
a frame controller or special deck), and put those frames at the beginning and
end of a VGA animation put to tape through a VGA>NTSC converter. The still
images are only when people notice detail and colors and stuff, when the
picture is moving you can get away with murder (at least to a point…).
Hope this helps, or at least gives you some ideas.
Brian, I was working over the weekend with the idea also of increasing the
resolution of the first few seconds of my "test" walkthru but as far as I could
see after looking at it over and over more than a dozen times.. no major
difference so I'll keep trying with the .flc format rendered at 512×480 .. Yes
there are less colors than a .TGA file and it
does play back at a slower pace than if I had done it frame by frame..
But I asked today a Mtl company how much they charged for transferring .TGA
frames to S-VHS then to VHS video.. I as quoted 1.50 per frame ! ( Shreik!!!)
I'll keep practicing the transfer from HD to VCR and use slightly lower res..
P.S ( they were planning to go .tga to Mac..Mac to Unix..unix to Betacam..
Betacam to S-Vhs or VHS .. what a circus..but I could have 900 frames done in a
few hours! but at what a cost..
Acually, I think you may be slightly confused as to what I was saying about the
first and last frames being at a higher resolution. I meant to say that you put
in the images at a higher resolution whenever your camera motion is still
(which is usually at the first and last frames, plus wherever you pause in the
animation to see a detail). If you put a truecolor still next to a vga still of
the same image, even at the same resolution, I guarantee that you will see a
difference.
-BDR