[Paraview] Paraview v3.4.0 poor movie quality

[Peter Brady]

Hi Rick,

Not sure if this is helpful but I save the animation as png's and then
use a separate program (ffmpeg - its open source) to turn the png's
into a movie.  ffmpeg gives me a lot of control on the frame rate,
quality, size, and format of the output.

Hope that helps,
Peter.

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 6:15 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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