#MPEG
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HI Greg,
I was considering buying Adobe Premiere so that I could mix sound with my
animations. Would you happen to know if Premiere is capable of creating 24 bit
animations? Do you know of any better software that would do this and allow
you to synchronize sound to it? I saw Pemiere bundled with an M-JPEG card. I
know that JPEG is for stills and MPEG is for movies but what exactly does an
MPEG card do and is it worth it for dispaying 3D animations?
Thanx..
->James
James,
I haven't used Premiere or any similar software, so I can't help you with
that…sorry. Leave a message in the TrueSpace section here….seems several
people have experience with Premier, and another package called Razor and Razor
Pro.
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I saw Pemiere bundled with an M-JPEG card. I know that JPEG is for stills and
MPEG is for movies but what exactly does an MPEG card do and is it worth it for
dispaying 3D animations?
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The MPEG card itself is primarily used to decompress the MPEG for faster play
and display on your system. Without it, you are at the mercy of software
decompression, which will vary with the speed of your machine's CPU type. A
faster CPU..ie Pentium and you'll get faster decompression/display. However, a
dedicated MPEG board would still be the fastest for smoother play.
If you are more interested in transferring your animations to tape rather than
just displaying them on your machine, a PAR (Personal Animation Recorder) would
be better.
-GreG
Greg,
Could you give me more information on PAR. Does it record to VHS? Does it
require a VGA-TV converter? Average price?
Thank You…
->James
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Could you give me more information on PAR. Does it record to VHS? Does it
require a VGA-TV converter? Average price?
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James,
I haven't used a PAR yet (no need to output directly to tape here yet, though
it's coming….sigh). So basically I am reading the replies you are getting
here and in COMANIM.
-GreG
James
Par looks like a disk drive to other software, and outputs composite video,
S-VHS & BetaCam. Internally it uses M-JPEG or something simular. I like mine.
-ash
Since I do use Premiere I thoutgh I jump in.
JPEG was designed to compress still photos. M-JEPG is a reworked version of
plain JPEG that is to compress movies. MPEG was only designed to compress
movies. MPEG can make very small files but is limited to VHS quality pictures.
M-JPEG can come close to D2 quality if you have a board that will work at 3:1
compression. If your going to compress animation for output I suggest a M-JPEG
board with at least a max compression ratio of 7:1 to 9:1. The board that I
have maxs at 16:1, The picture from captured video looks fine. But compressing
sharper still frames causes artifacts to show up in the video. The advantage to
M-JPEG over MPEG is that M-JPEG is easy to edit. MPEG is very dificalt to cut
and splice because of the way the video is compressed.
The number of colors depends on the Codec(Copression Code) that you use M-JPEG
codecs that come with the boards will be 24 bit. The codecs CINEPAC and INDEO
that come with video for windows are also 24 bit. the rest are 16 – 8 bit
codecs. CinePac can compress full-screen, full-motion video but you'd probably
the fastest DEC Alpha to play it back smothly.
Bill "Axoid" Rockhold