Quicktime conversion .mov to .avi loose quality-Pulpmotion

Bonjour, Hello, Buenas Dias,
I used Quicktime pro to convert a short clip-slide show with animation- made on a software called Pulpmotion. For those who know this software made by a company called Aquafadas I choose small bees flying with their pictures. The .mov file created looks nice but when converting as an .avi file with quicktime pro the quality is much lower. I changed different settings and one worked out : it was choosing "animation" the quality is the same but it simply made a much shorter clip than the initial one. So is there a perfect solution to have .avi file having the same quality as the .mov quality-same length, same image sharpness-?
MacMazing

The animation codec makes movies that are essentially uncompressed. With no compression the movie is the same as the source material. Many of the avi (and movie, for that matter) codecs are what are called "lossy" codecs; that is, much of the detail in the source is thrown away in the interest of making a smaller file. It is not unusual for a lossy file to be only one tenth as long as the source. You haven't mentioned the avi codecs that you tried but I am sure many of them were lossy codecs.
If you click on Options when choosing an avi codec you should be able to arrive at a compromise that make a smaller file but one that retained a reasonable amount of quality. Compression is as much art as science and there are no hard and fast rules as to which codec with do the best job. Sometimes you just have to experiment. It is not clear to me why the animation choice lead to a shorter file duration. Perhaps you would benefit from reviewing the material in the QT 7 pdf guide that is available here:
http://images.apple.com/quicktime/pdf/QuickTime7UserGuide.pdf

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