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Re: 24bit IFF-animations
« on: April 08, 2004, 11:57:18 AM »
If you are using Cinema4D, then it comes with a utility called AnimGen which will take your 24 bit rendered frames and make an anim out of them.  This can be played back with pretty much most anim players.  I don't remember if the resulting animation is 24 bit (I've just moved house so I am not able to check this for you.)  I have found that there are things that you can do to improve playback speed: it depends what your needs are.  I have found that Ham8 anims run pretty quickly and look pretty good if you use lower resoltions with alot of antialiasing when you render.  Also you should use Anim7 format which improves speeds.  clarissa defiantely improves play back speed but the version I have used V2 does not do 24 bit or even ham8 anims.  you must convert it to 256 colors with alot of dithering and you must make your anim as laced video resoltion, which clarissa can do for you. If outputting to VHS then even 256 color anims can look ok and you will get decent playback speed.  I have played the same C4D anims that come with C4D ( I have both PC and Amiga versions of c4D) on a PC and the Ham8 versions on amiga and I can honestly say there is no noticeable difference in quality or playback speed.  Remember that as every frame will have a unique palette and the frames will play back quickly one after another alot of the color limitations that you see in the frames individually may not be noticeable when playing back.