D/S avi to Windows Player or Quicktime?

patience55

Encountered a little problem.

Rendered to .avi in D/S [3D Delight] a clip.

It had played fine in D/S on the timeline.

In Windows Player it plays rather choppy. [not good for a spinner!]

So I brought it over to my other computer and there Windows Player says it has encountered some type of problem and can't play it at all ???!!!!
It's an offline computer ... any good guesses as to why and/or how to fix?

I tried the same file in the free Quicktime Player and it works great! So before I invest in QuickTime Pro thought I'd ask if there's a simple fix available for Windows Player for D/S .avi ... [I used uncompressed]

{And however it all played in the video viewers ... it plays great in the viewer of Pinnacle 16. So hopefully whatever that will render out to will work better for the final clip.}

WendyLuvsCatz

is it uncompressed?
does virtualdub open it?
I cannot play uncompressed avi on my desktop smoothly either though I composite with them and more often image series saved as avi in vdub.
but add a compression filter to it in vdub and fine
Windows live movie maker also converts them to wmv no prob.

patience55

wendy♥catz said:

is it uncompressed?
does virtualdub open it?
I cannot play uncompressed avi on my desktop smoothly either though I composite with them and more often image series saved as avi in vdub.
but add a compression filter to it in vdub and fine
Windows live movie maker also converts them to wmv no prob.

Forgot about that one. Think I'll give it another try, thanks.

Yes it was uncompressed, for some reason I thought that would make it easier to play but I guess not. Took an hour to render a minute so it'll be awhile to find out ... but will go with a series of stills and compile them in another program.

Jaderail

The AVI compression in DS is a known issue. I does not save properly. All ways render to Frames and compile with a Editor.

patience55

Jaderail said:

The AVI compression in DS is a known issue. I does not save properly. All ways render to Frames and compile with a Editor.

Okay and thank you Jaderail. I didn't realize that - possibly because I normally render to stills.

Whatever it did though, I was able to get Pinnacle 16 to play them, and re-render them into another format for a nice sized clip for Youtube.

if anybody is curious

The props are in my DA Gallery.

kesh

The problem with uncompressed avi is that it hogs up your RAM with its enormous dimensions. While it's a good starting point for material to be used by a video editing program (since lossness is reduced to a minimum), it's far from good for real time use (as playing it).

I am not familiar with DS rendering to video, so i can't help there, but i agree that rendering to frames and then using an external software to convert the frames sequence to a video format is the best way to go in this case.

That way you can also use the editor's effects and functions, for instance to re-crop takes, add small camera movement etc.

patience55

kesh said:

The problem with uncompressed avi is that it hogs up your RAM with its enormous dimensions. While it's a good starting point for material to be used by a video editing program (since lossness is reduced to a minimum), it's far from good for real time use (as playing it).

I am not familiar with DS rendering to video, so i can't help there, but i agree that rendering to frames and then using an external software to convert the frames sequence to a video format is the best way to go in this case.

That way you can also use the editor's effects and functions, for instance to re-crop takes, add small camera movement etc.

Okay, somehow that makes sense then ... if as I've often done, simply use .avi as a "rough draft" as it were and not be concerned about playback until after some processing is done. [and .avi is NOT the final file type!]