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| boot-cheese-3000 |
| Posted: Aug 20 2012, 03:15 PM |
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[FONT=Impact][SIZE=7][COLOR=blue]Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum and using VirtualDub. I've had the software for a few years because I was planning on using it for animation. Now that I've gained some knowledge in that dept I'm ready for VirtualDub. An issue I'm having currently is my animation comes out misty and pixelly, like really nasty-looking. I asked a few friends/tutors about it (one was familiar with VideoMach which is what he used for encoding and told me it can't help with color correction so to try VD) and one mentioned that it might be because it's a png, not necessarily because it's a transparent background. He told me to switch to a jpg with the next project I'm currently working on, I'm about to begin rendering in a few mins. I have a copy of After Effects but for some reason Media Encoder won't work on my system. That's why I'm using these alternatives, plus I'll need some knowledge on VD for my laptop when I have a project to do while I'm away from my desktop. These issues never occured with AE, but that could be because it's an Adobe program. Unfortunately I can't encode on AE but it's all good, I'm still using it for other things.
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| Abrazo |
| Posted: Aug 20 2012, 08:38 PM |
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It is important to know what will be the goal of your animation:
- will it be something that consists of only a few images or will it be more,
- are you going to publish it on the internet,
- in which form do you want to publish (AVI or rather "animated GIF"),
- do you have many different colors in your images (more than 256),
- will it be shown 'full screen' or only taking a small or larger part of the screen.
Also take care about the resolution (number of pixels) of your animations.
When you blow up a little image to a large one (or full screen size), the effect can indeed be 'misty and pixelly'.
If you are going to transform it to AVI, then also take into account to preview enough 'bitrate' for encoding quality.
Personally, I think that JPG is a much better format than PNG to work with.
If you give the images (for your animation) a similar name followed by a number (like image_001.jpg/image_002.jpg/image_003.jpg/...), then you can easily load them in one time into VirtualDub. You will just need to open the first one and the others will follow automatically.
I suppose you already have some experience with encoding video and audio.
VirtualDub is really worth it to give it a try ! |
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| boot-cheese-3000 |
| Posted: Aug 20 2012, 09:10 PM |
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| QUOTE (Abrazo @ Aug 20 2012, 08:38 PM) | It is important to know what will be the goal of your animation:
- will it be something that consists of only a few images or will it be more,
- are you going to publish it on the internet,
- in which form do you want to publish (AVI or rather "animated GIF"),
- do you have many different colors in your images (more than 256),
- will it be shown 'full screen' or only taking a small or larger part of the screen.
Also take care about the resolution (number of pixels) of your animations.
When you blow up a little image to a large one (or full screen size), the effect can indeed be 'misty and pixelly'.
If you are going to transform it to AVI, then also take into account to preview enough 'bitrate' for encoding quality.
Personally, I think that JPG is a much better format than PNG to work with.
If you give the images (for your animation) a similar name followed by a number (like image_001.jpg/image_002.jpg/image_003.jpg/...), then you can easily load them in one time into VirtualDub. You will just need to open the first one and the others will follow automatically.
I suppose you already have some experience with encoding video and audio.
VirtualDub is really worth it to give it a try ! |
Ok to answer your questions to the best of my ability:
-yes, it will be alot of images. the current project will have 2 separate animated music videos (vocal and instrumental version) which means 2 different videos because of time length. Vocal version has 42 keyframes while the instrumental will have 47. I might shave some of those off before rendering, right now I'm just previewing the work.
-yes I will, I have a YouTube acct and deviantArt acct.
-it more than likely will be an AVI since they work on WMP and very flexible file--no gifs with this project.
-I do have alot of different colors, but I can't say how many because I don't know.
-as far as screen size I don't want it to be too small but not too big either. I don't want to compromise the composition.
I'm just learning about encoding so it's all new to me, I have NO IDEA how all that works but I'm trying to learn. First I had issues with AE because there was static popping up in the compositions because they wern't compressed. Now that I figured that out and fixed it another problem arises--the messy pixels. I REALLY want to clean that mess up. I switched fro png to jpg now so hopefully we'll see what happens when it's all done. I would like to know about encoding on VD as well, at least the basics, what each tool/option does and so on. |
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| Abrazo |
| Posted: Aug 22 2012, 06:41 AM |
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You can find a lot of information in the VirtualDub program, via Help > Contents
and performing a Search via Google on "Virtualdub tutorial" leads you also to several learning videos on YouTube.
It is not yet clear to me wether you will have about 47 frames in total, which will stay every one for a variabel amount of seconds on the screen...
or will it really be 'keyframes' with a certain number of animated/transformed variations on each one ?
(Otherwise, given the fact that there are - normally - at least 25 images per second in a video, your AVI will be done in two seconds). |
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