Hi All,

I'm experimenting with QuickTime VR a la Bryce. It's easy to set up and do, but I am not satisfied with the overall image quality of the VR movie.

When I go into QuickTime (using the Pro edition), I can check the VR movie properties. It tells me that the movie was rendered using JPEG compression (probably what Bryce assumes is best for the job).

I'd like to be able to play with different settings (including no compression). Does anyone know of a way to get Bryce to allow user settings of the compression used in a VR movie, similar to the choices one gets in setting compression for an animated movie?

Or, alternatively, is there a way to make the objects in a scene sharper, so if the scene is compressed, it isn't so fuzzy?

Changing the anti-alaising feature has no effect, and changing camera attributes also has no effect in a 360 panorama render that I can see.

Thanks, I appreciate any suggestions!

I'm not sure if Bryce offers different settings for QTVR-export. Can't you alternatively render an Image in 14:3 Format and convert it to QTVR outside of Bryce? I know there are (free) tools that can do that but can't remeber where(apple.com?).

Thanks Zottel1, that did the trick! I can now bring the (very wide) image into Photoshop and sharpen it, adjust color etc. and render it to a QuickTime VR movie with much better clarity than if I do Bryce's VR render. I don't know of any free stuff for makig an image into a QuickTime VR movie (I think you're right, Apple may have something). I use VR Worx (which isn't free) because it not only makes VR movies, but it allows one to make multi-node movies and hot spots as well. Anyway, the process works fine in that program, so thanks for the tip!