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if your bored today you can check out my new commercial. I used Carrara to build the stage, light it, and animate the stage & lights. I composited 20 movies together in after effects (all the bottles running around the runway) and then randomly selected the best shots into my Avid. The funny thing is carrara was the easiest part of the project. I always find it weird that While I cant seem to model or texture in Carrara it does everything else so well. Carrara has such great potential, I can't wait for C2.

Quick time won't let me view it. Arrrrgggg....

rrr...sorry about that. Its in microsofts mpeg4 codec...windows only :( Also this one is encoded at 640x480 so you will prob need at least a p3 500 to get a nice smooth viewing. One day I will bust out the money for quicktime but this way is just so much easier in avid...plus its only 4.5meg at very nice quality.

bust out the money for quicktime? quicktime pro only costs 30 beans, and it lets you do simple cut copy paste as well as minor compositing. you can then export to a variety of file formats. it's not a major investment. and think how happy you would make all of us mac users. here's hoping...

The main reason to use Quicktime is that because it has actual version numbers, codec compatibility is a given. AVI may be optimized for Windows, but it isn't a standard in the conventional sense of the word.

sigh..you mac users are so intolerant of others :) Actually it isnt avi that I care about its mpeg. I do not have a great way to make mpegs right now. The AVI codec I am using is the microsoft mpeg4 codec, and in my research nothing except for DIVX comes close to the resulotion/size of this codec. I edit video's for a living and everyday I kick out 2-8 thumbnails for clients. I would LOVE to have a great multi platform solution. If ANYone here can come up with one I would love to hear it b/c I would adapt it to use here instantly. - brent * please for the love of all this right and true...DO NOT tell me to use the sorenson codec....thats all I hear about from the carrara community, but compared to even mpeg1 I have only seen it look like crap, and it is never near the size I am looking for (under 5megs for a 30sec spot at 640x480).

Who's intolerant? I'm just saying that .AVI guarantees nothing. If any other application's files were that, um, variable, people would be up in arms about it. QT is stable; don't call me names for stating a fact. You have to have under 5M at 30sec/640x480? Smells like your clients have 56K connections. I don't think the codec industry's got much interest in lowband these days.

the intolerant remark was said with a smile :) .. that means I am not serious... As for size..thats what I care about. Even if you have a 1-1.5mb cable modem 5 megs still takes a bit to download, and everyone in business knows that time = money. If mpeg4 will get me 640x480 at under 5megs then I am going to use it. The Mac factor is insignificat in my world..we usually only have 2 or 3 people a year complain about it, and when they do we just send them a vhs copy. When qt6 is released with mpeg 4 we may switch to it. Our advantage now is that our Avid will export the mpeg4 in about 3 min on a p3 500...to make a quicktime of lesser quality averages us about 10-12 min a spot and we have to use a third party program.

Hey, finally got a chance to check out your animation. Clever idea, and nice execution. Pretty cool.