How Should I Export This?

[Dyson6]

Hello everyone,
I have finished the animation I was trying to make but now I've run into an odd problem. When I try to export the animation as an AVI uncompressed it plays back with a lot of lag and is 151mb! Let me say this is a 15 second animation so to me it sounds odd for it to be such a huge file size.

I've been making these short animations for a platform shooter game I am developing so it doesn't have to be the best quality or anything since the movie itself is not my main purpose.

So I ask you, how would I best go about exporting this into hopefully a single digit mb but keep good enough quality that it doesn't look like crap?
(Because the game right now is like 5mb so the cutscenes bieng so huge seems ridiculous)

[GCharb]

Hello Dyson!

What is the resolution, length of that video?

For avi you could try xvid, which is available for PC, Mac and Linux.

http://www.xvid.org

I prefer Quicktime, which has the H-264 codec, you loose a bit of color definition, but it shrink file size alot.

The quicktime Animation codec is somewhat lossless, with a surprisingly small footprint on files that have little noise.

http://www.quicktime.com

I have posted such a small file(431 kb) on that thread which was outputted with the maximum quality settings for the codec.

viewtopic.php?t=15584

Hope this helped!

G

[Dyson6]

Thanks! I'll have to try this tomorrow.
And I have to use avi because it's the only way I know how to put it in the game.

[swrecordings]

i do my animations in 1080p now that i have pro and i found that using a condenser (in AS) helps allot. i know they have a few for avi that i use

[GCharb]

Rendered that head turn in xvid from AS Pro

http://thewingsofpower.com/temp/toonheadXVID.avi

184 kb and looks lossless at maximum settings of 10000.

Same file is 58 mb uncompressed.

G