Forum: Carrara


Subject: Question about file compression in Raydream

3Dme opened this issue on May 23, 2003 ยท 4 posts


3Dme posted Fri, 23 May 2003 at 6:01 PM

I need some help. I made a 42 second animation using RDS 5.5. The .avi plays fine from my computer but when I burned it to a CD-R disc it plays the movie in slow motion. When I play the movie from the disc the 42 seconds takes about 3 minutes to play. I burned a new disc but the same thing happens. The file is 388,539 KB and takes up about half the CD-R disc. I don't think it's a problem with the CD burner because I have used it to backup past animations onto a CD-R disc. The past files were smaller but I'm beginning to think it's a problem with the file itself.

When I rendered the movie the compression setting was set to 'Full Frames (Uncompressed)'. Should I use a compressor? RDS 5.5 has four chooses: Cinepak Codeo by Radius, Intel Indeo Video R3.2, Microsoft Video 1, and Indeo video 5.04. What's the difference and if I use a compressor can I play the movie in Real Player and Media Player?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Mary