Compressor using Animation

Since you guys were so helpful, I though I would let you know what finally worked best for the final product from my Sony HDR-HC1 to the final DVD. I broke up the 2 hour timeline in FCP into 16 separate timelines and then sent each one to Compressor. I usually just use the standard DVD codex, but this time I experimented with many and the one that was far superior to any others was ANIMATION. This corrected some of the quality problems I have always experienced.

Hi Dxil,
Animation codec is one of the most demanding, processor intensive option you can possibly go for.
A format that even the latest and most advanced machines can fail to cope with especially when dealing with a 2 + hours movie.
No wonder it wouldn't work when trying it on the full length of your project.
Having said that I am delighted to know that you put it all together thanks to the workaround you described.
Best,
G

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Well here's the thing ....
And I'll start off by saying I have so much to learn about FCP but this has made a big difference to how my images look, especially graphics and titles.
So I'm working away at my project and the graphic images that I import into the timeline from the viewer are just ok and I'm a bit disillusioned like so many people seem to be on these forums about how the image degrades from the viewer to the canvas. And of course it is apparent later on the QT file and then the DVD that's produced at the end.
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(3) sometimes when you're playing through the timeline the image on the canvas and the sound quality are poor (processor running out of puff I guess)
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Well... the animation codec is primarily used for sneakernetting files from one platform to another, mac to pc for example. It's a bear for a lot of computers to even play out a file without choking. The concept is make animation file, put on disk or drive, carry across the hall to the pc station, convert to something the pc station can use without choking.
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Community Expert
bippity wrote:
>
http://www.cartoonsolutions.com/store/catalog/Re-using-Animation-on-Multiple-Cha
> racters-Video-Tutorial-p-16569.html
>
> Cartoon Solutions has this tutorial for re-using
animation for different
> characters. Are the plug ins for this available for free
anywhere, or is
> cartoonsolutions the only place that offers it?
>
>

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Luke H wrote:
> I've made an animated gif using flash an am trying to
make it so the gif
> appears in my signature at the bottom of every email. I
can place it in the
> signature but when I send the email the gif is static
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> I'm using a mac and when I recieve an animated gif in an
email from a PC the
> gif is also static. I need to be able to send animated
gifs in emails from PC
> and Mac using Mircosoft Outlook for PC and Entourage for
MAC. Any help would be
> much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
>

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