Exporting animations

anniemoe · Post by **anniemoe** » Mon Mar 28, 2011 6:36 pm

I've created my very first animation that's somewhat okay thanks to you guys on here. But now i've ran into another problemo. My animations come out darker than it looks on AS. I expect it to loose some, but it looks dark and alittle muddy.

My animations are saved at 1280 x 720 frame rate 35

I save it to quicktime... Then open it with Windows movie maker and publish it. It all comes darker than i want. How can i fix this? Thanks so much.

anniemoe · Post by **anniemoe** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:47 am

The Quicktime movie quality is good. It's only when i open that quicktime movie in Windows movie maker and publish it it looks darker. So i could just use Quicktime, but i really enjoy Movie Makers tools and it's much quicker.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 12:54 am

Are you rendering with a codec from AS? I find the best way to render if I am going to use WMM is to use AVI uncompressed. You will have to deal with the lag in WMM but it should come out like you want after you save it as WMV.

anniemoe · Post by **anniemoe** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 3:53 am

I've saved it as an AVI before, but the background turns black from the original background in WMM. The quality is also bad.

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:01 am

Are you saying that when you render from AS as AVI and then import to WMM and do your editing and then render as WMV the background is black?

That is really really odd.

If you would post the .anme file I think I can help you. Make sure to upload the background also if it is an image and not vector.

anniemoe · Post by **anniemoe** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:24 am

I'm sorry for the blunt dumbness, but i really don't know how to send an anime file.

crsP · Post by **crsP** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 1:11 pm

It sounds like you're saying when you output from AS to Quicktime, the colours are fine, but when you get it into Movie Maker, they are darker? This sounds to me like Movie Maker is not respecting the colour profile, o maybe check the menus and options to see if you can apply your monitor's colour profile to the video file. I don't have Movie Maker so I can't help you with doing this.

jonbo · Post by **jonbo** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 2:31 pm

Anniemoe, you can send files thru a file sharing site like Mediafire. It's free and you can share files up to 200mb. Upload your file and copy the link address then paste it in a post.

anniemoe · Post by **anniemoe** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:11 pm

Thanks guys. Thanks Jonbo. Got it. Here's the file.

http://www.mediafire.com/?vsa6ci9nt98p3r8

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 4:54 pm

What type of background did you use? If it is an image can you upload that also?

anniemoe · Post by **anniemoe** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:11 pm

Sorry bout that. Here's the file with the background.
http://www.mediafire.com/?10vx0ychcmztzlt

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 5:36 pm

On my end, Mov and AVI both are identical and I see no change in background color. I would just use AVI uncompressed if your going to use WMM.

Some times, depending on your computers specs, AVI will look very bad in WMM, it will look blurry and laggy until you render it as WMV.

Render frame 24-48 as AVI uncompressed then import it to WMM and save to your computer as best quality for playback on your computer.

Let me know what it looks like.

anniemoe · Post by **anniemoe** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:20 pm

I think i got it. It came out better. Thanks.