[Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited)

[Renato N. Elias]

I'm doing other tests with a NVidia's card (with no luck yet). In fact, 
I was using the intel video card of my laptop (Vaio VGN-SZ430N) which 
was the same card used to render the movie using pv-2.6.2. The best in 
my opinion. Berk, I must keep at least one light turned on (headlight or 
the light kit), otherwise, I will get a completely dark image. I'll try 
copying the light kit attributes from pv-2.6.2 to pv-3.4.0.

Renato.

Berk Geveci wrote:
> That difference is definitely because of setting differences between
> the two version. 3 uses light kit by default. 2 did not, I believe.
>
> -berk
>
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Renato N. Elias <rnelias at nacad.ufrj.br> wrote:
>   
>> Forgive me. In fact, it helped. When I said that, I was making reference to
>> the movie produced by pv.2.6.2 which, in my opinion, is the best in quality.
>>
>> []'s
>>
>> Renato.
>>
>> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>     
>>> 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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