Re: My file size is too big.....
 

Just to clear some things up..

720x480 29.97FPS is NOT Standard TV size, It is standard DVD NTSC Standard.

352x240 29.97FPS is Standard NTSC TV size.

Now by reading the rules, it says the acceptable format is Quicktime, or .mov.

This being said, you can easily render in 3d studio max with an uncompressed avi to achieve maximum quality, and then encode to .MOV using a Quicktime Encoder found on the net. This will allow you to achieve the greatest quality possible and actually control the file size of the output file.

Re: My file size is too big.....
 

I rendered from max as a uncompressed .mov and then encoded it as a dv/dvspro-ntsc .mov in premiere should i do it in any other way because it looks bad, that is image quality.

Re: My file size is too big.....
 

I had the same problem, except that I also found that when I exported to DVNTSC from MAX it looked all nice and shiney. We are rendering to uncompressed, playing with transitions and such in priemier, saving as uncompressed, and then doing the uncompressed -> NTSC conversion in MAX. I have no idea why the image quality is so different between the two programs, but oh well.

Re: My file size is too big.....
 

Well, tonight I did the final output of my animaiton (All animations were rendered uncompressed) and we did three different outputs. One was NTSC, the other Cinepak, and the final was MPEG4 (For reference of what it looked like in the uncompressed).

NTSC took about two minutes for output, the file size was roughly 120 megs, and it looked like I'd aimed a camera at my monitor and recorded it. We tried multiple settings and then differed to Cinepak.

Cinepak produced good quality at 80 megs with only taking four minutes to create the output. I was happy with the quality, although not a beaming beacon of hope like MPEG4, it was good.

Re: My file size is too big.....
 

Cinepak is good in the fact that it doesn't produce as many artifacts as DV/DVCPRO - NTSC but it is as pixelated as 300*400 resolution. good analogy right?

Re: My file size is too big.....
 

We just finished rendering, 1st attempt... at 100% , no compressing, which gave us a file size of nearly 700,000 KB :ahh: :ahh: however, our 2nd time we compressed at 75% with Cinepak, which reduced file size to rougly 120,000 KB. I would suggest doing this if you're having trouble, because we have live video too, which added a lot of file size to the entire thing.

/stops sweating bullets :]