recommended video settings for high quality output

[JamesMaeding]

What settings should I use for high quality video output?

I have tried a few, but want to see what others have found.

[Todd_Rogers · Accepted solution]

If you use Windows Media output, click the properties button and change the bit rate to 8500.

[JamesMaeding]

thats what we tried before, worked pretty well actually.

Just wanted to see if there was a "sweetest" spot.

The showmotion feature is nicely made, good job by Autodesk on keeping it simple, compact, yet with details we need.

thx

[Todd_Rogers]

It's actually much more complex in R2.  It takes some getting used to, but it's really cool because you can add captions and different story boards to it.

[thoellering2]

My Captions are getting squished...dont know why.

[Todd_Rogers]

Should have a resolution set to 1920 x 1200.

[thoellering2]

OK - Thanks - I will try that. I used the1920x1440 or something like that.

Cheers,

Thomas

[JamesMaeding]

do you really need to go beyond 1080 HD?

If we are talking IMAX, how about 4x that?

Have you tried what you suggest for large models?

[Todd_Rogers]

1080 HD is a bitrate of 10400, a framerate of 24, and resolution of 1920 x 1200.

[JamesMaeding]

1080 is 1080 pixels vertically, not 1200.

I'm just wondering why you suggest something over HD, do you find it looks better on HD screens?

[Todd_Rogers]

Yes you are correct, 1920 x 1080, but most computer monitors use the 1920 x 1200 which the video fits best on most computer monitors.

[thoellering2]

I use Camtasia Studio for editing my videos - just learning actually. So I discovered that Camtasia does not like videos that are larger than 1280x1024. So back to the drawing board and export a smaller video for that. Just an FYI...

Thomas

[Todd_Rogers]

I use Camtasia. Create a custom size. Works great for me. I created a custom size of 1920 x 1080.

[thoellering2]

I get an out of memory error...I have a pretty good setup here. Maybe I'm missing something.

Thomas

[Anonymous]

Has anyone had any luck to render a video with a point cloud?? I have tried many different combinations of settings, but it only creates a strip of video in teh center of the screen, and doesn't render the full view. 

Kevin