Animation Quality Problem

[Anonymous]

When creating animation files from an .ipn, regardless of file format and codec, the quality is terrible.

What must I do to get the animation quality that I see on Utube and other places?

I am new to Inventor and would appreciate some advice.

[Anonymous]

Knowing what version of Inventor you're using along with details on your o/s
and video card would help for starters.

The answer is that it really is all about the CODEC. Most will use either
the TechSmith or DivX codecs to output to one of the various animation file
types.

Neither the TechSmith or DivX codecs are delivered with Windows --OR-- with
Inventor, you have to go get them.

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

[Anonymous]

Try this, import your ipn. recorded file (wmv) to Adobe Premiere and save as a mpeg file. Quality is crispier.

[Anonymous]

I appreciate the reply.

I am using 2009 pro on a Toshiba satelite p205d, ATI Radeon x1200. The OS is Vista.

All other animation looks great, DVDs, utube vids, etc, and the Inventor itself looks near photo quality but the videos I produce with inventer look like something from a 16 color machine.

Thanks for the advice regarding TechSmith and DivX.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the advice.

[Anonymous]

I suspect that you are using one of the many codecs supplied with Windows.
I'm not running Vista, so I'm not certain what is delivered with that flavor
of Windows. I know that in Windows XP (and earlier versions like NT, etc...)
there were quite a few codecs delivered - not all of which were particularly
suited to every output scenario. Some expect a particular size, some are
really course, etc...

We have had great quality using the two previously mentioned codecs and
output to AVI.

--
Gary R. Smith
Autodesk Manufacturing Solutions Division
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Portland, OR
2.33GHz 2GB IBM ThinkPad T60p; XP pro SP2
ATI Mobility FireGL V5250 driver: 8.293.1.0

[Anonymous]

TFEILLER ha scritto:

> All other animation looks great, DVDs, utube vids, etc, and the
> Inventor itself looks near photo quality but the videos I produce
> with inventer look like something from a 16 color machine.

Save the animation in uncompressed AVI, then you can use some converters.
Here a free one:
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html
(it's a mencoder frontend).

--
AIS 11 SP4
Pentium 4 3 GHz - 2 GB RAM
NVIDIA Quadro 330 6.14.10.9136

[Anonymous]

Be advised, the IPN environment doesn't have the realistic capabilities of
the Inventor Studio environment.
You need to use Inv. Studio or comparably capable product to get that level
of realism.
--
Bill Bogan - Autodesk, Inc. - MSD, Inventor

[Anonymous]

my mistake Edited by: designengineer on Nov 28, 2008 11:32 AM