[Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited)

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Hi Renato,

I am confused, why do you say unchecking use-offscreen hasn't helped 
much? I can see that pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi is well-lit when 
compared with pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi, or am I missing something 
here?

Utkarsh

Renato N. Elias wrote:
> Hi Utkarsh,
> 
> yes, I'm using a Windows machine and the offscreen rendering option has 
> not helped so much :-(
> 
> Just for comparison, I produced the same movie using PV3.4.0 and 
> PV2.6.2. Take a look:
> 
> ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots UNchecked):
> http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi 
> 
> 
> ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots checked):
> http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi 
> 
> 
> ParaView-2.6.2:
> http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-2.6.2.avi
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Renato.
> 
> 
> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>> Renato,
>>
>> Is this on a windows machine? Can you try the following:
>> * Go to View|Settings
>> * In the Options dialog choose the "Render View"  in the tree view on 
>> the left pane and then set "Use Offscreen Rendering for Screenshots" 
>> to unchecked and then save the animation. Is this any better?
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>>
>> Renato N. Elias wrote:
>>>
>>> Some time ago I reported the poor quality of the movies that I've 
>>> been creating in PV version 3. They seem darkened (I turned on the 
>>> lights) and with low resolution (952 x 554 seems to be a good 
>>> resolution). No one answered me and I concluded that the problem was 
>>> some misconfiguration I made. Ok, but the problem is that I'm still 
>>> not able to save any avi file with a decent quality using PV3. In 
>>> PV2, any movie produced had, at least, the same quality of the still 
>>> images rendered on main window. What's the difference between PV2 and 
>>> PV3 in terms of movie rendering? Is there anything that I could 
>>> configure to solve it?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help
>>>
>>> Renato.
>>>
>>>
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>>
> 
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