Re: SolidWorks 2003 Animator, Whats the standard codec?

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I save my animations out of SolidWorks as an avi using the standardmicrosoft video 1 codec set at 90 percent.  The file size is huge. About 200 mb for 45 seconds of video.  To get around this I use a freeprogram called "video framer".  I convert the avi into a windows mediafile wma and that shrinks the file size to about 10 megs with nonoticeable loss in quality.  It's an unbelieveable difference is filesize.  Another plus is the animation not only plays on a computer butmost new dvd players sold today will recognize and play the wmaformat.

Jeff Norfolk · Accepted Answer

I would like to know this as well. I have the DivX codec, but that one produces awful output from Animator, even at high quality settings. The only one I can get to produce good output is 'Uncompressed Frames', but the file size is too large. I even downloaded Windows Media Encoder to try and convert the uncompressed file, but couldn't get it to open. Anyone have recommendations as to what codec to use and what settings to use with it?

Mike Wilson and Brian Hill, what do you guys use (if you don't mind sharing your secrets)?

Mike J. Wilson · Answer

Hi Kevin,That is what I usually recommend for short animations that takemaybe a few hours to render. You end up with perfect framesthat can then be compressed using one of the many programsout there. If something goes wrong, you didn't lose too muchtime.For more intense animations some people prefer saving asindividual TGA or BMP files. That way you can salvage partof the animation if something goes haywire.Here is a good link from a few months back... at Paul Salvador's answers as well as Brian Hill's (PW_Guru).Here are some links to get started... Wilson

Mike J. Wilson · Answer

Whoops, sorry.. I meant Jeff.

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