I am trying to make a 3d movie, using Bryce and Poser4. I want to run a large movie on an 800x600 full screen. I use a PC 900MHz, 560MB ram. There are several questions about size format compression and more. I have tried this way. Render raw AVI 640x480. Edit and compress in Premiere 6. Store it at the hard drive. I have tested several types of compression, like MPG. I play it from the hard drive using Win Media Player. I plan to burn CDs and play it from a CD. The movie does not flow, but hacks and moves slowly. It works better if I use 480x360, but its still not perfect, and if I run it full screen it becomes blurry and pixelized, especially if I use MPG. I would be grateful for advice and tips. Are there some useful tutorials? Torulf

I've experienced that problem when using certain formats. You can try recompresing the file with VirtualDub. It's a simple encoder that supports any thinkable format and the output comes out pretty good.

Try using the indeo codec, it'll compress with fairly reasonable quality. harddrives can't handle layback of uncompressed frames.

I feel your pain. I'm trying to do something similar 720x480 poser animation to run on your home DVD player. Getting information on how to do this is piece meal and incomplete. No wonder there is so little work getting out. We need a one stop info source. I spend my time trying to figure out codecs and fields and compression schemes etc. when I could be animatin - it's hard enough all on its own.

Only render to the size you want for the final use. If you render smaller then you want, it will always look blocky, and pixellated. Cinepak is another OK format, that any machine can play back. If you want to use MEPG, get a better encoder then the stock one in Premiere. I output to uncompressed, then toss the file into Cleaner for my encoding, but it is a little pricey. The best use for MPEG is if your going to DVD. Then of course, you'd be using MPEG 2.

The Cinepak CODEC can work pretty nicely. I put the Key Frames up to around 100 which ends up creating a pretty nice 'smooth' appearance to all the frames in between... Can't use that CODEC for much else, but if you want to have a large image, it'll probaly work.

Use streaming media as your file type *.wmv you will get smooth playback from a CD. TT.