[Paraview] Paraview v3.4.0 poor movie quality

[Rick Burnes]

Hi Berk,

I have generated an animation using the method you are referring to, 
where individual images are generated for each time-step.  The 
individual images generated out of Paraview v3.4.0 are high quality when 
using this approach.

Please see the email I sent to you directly that includes a sample 
movie, illustrating the poor movie quality.

Does Paraview have its own built-in codecs or does it use codecs 
available elsewhere on the computer system?

Sincerely,
Rick

Berk Geveci wrote:
> If you save the animation as a series of images, are the images of
> poor quality as well? I am trying to figure out if the encoding or
> screen capture is bad.
>
> -berk
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Rick Burnes <rick.burnes at mchsi.com> wrote:
>   
>> I have been trying to generate several animations in paraview v3.4.0 (32 bit
>> windows xp O.S.) but so far the animation quality has been terrible. I have
>> reviewed some of the previous posts and solutions but making the changes
>> offered in those solutions did not change the quality of the animations
>> generated.  Specifically, I turned off the light kit and I also unchecked
>> the "Use Offscreen Rendering for Screenshots", which can be found under
>> "Render View" in the options.  I did not have problems with animation
>> quality until upgrading to version 3.  Since then all of the version 3
>> variants of paraview have given me the same animation quality problems.
>>
>> Additional information: I generate an animation by choosing "save animation"
>> under "file", set the frames per sec., etc. and then save the animation as
>> an "avi" file.  I was hoping someone who subscribes to this list could
>> provide some guidance on how to generate a high quality animation out of
>> paraview v3.4.0.  I have also tried this on two different windows xp
>> computers with different video cards and drivers, but still get the same
>> results.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Rick
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