Animation Codec

[Darcolx]

Help!
This is my first entry into the First robotics
animation competition. Under the acceptable
Codecs, is the default "animation" codec
in the 3dMax v.6 an
acceptable standard...or, must one use
DV-NTSC or Cinepak. Both of those codecs
are of low quality and the results are poor.

Are there any other codecs allowable besides
DV-NTSC and Cinepak.

[Ryan Dognaux]

As the rules state -

"Acceptable Codecs: DV-NTSC and Cinepak. Do not use DiVX or any other non-standrd Codec"

So, I'd say only DV-NTSC and Cinepak.

[Darcolx]

5 codec questions:
1. In what player will the judges be viewing the movie file?
(when played in windows media player, small blotches appear
over the screen)
2. Is there any way to fix these blotches?
3. If the quicktime file (.mov) is able to play in windows
media player, but has a small message saying "unknown
player source" will it be considered a nonstandard codec,
even though it was compressed in DV-NTSC?
4. I notice in programs like 3dmax and other editing programs, their are certain titles such as 'pixel aspect ratio' and 'video compressor' (with configure labeled next to it). Under pixel aspect ratio 'dv-ntsc' is also listed, is that required for the dv-ntsc codec or should it remain on square pixels? also if you choose certain compressors I notice it does not let you configure that setting as the compressor(will it render as that codec wihtout hitting configure next to it if it saves its location as the slot marked?) or do you need to meet certain requirements for the configure setting to highlight?
5. Is there any audio compressor requirement?

[Rafi A]

Check out page 19 of the manual (http://www2.usfirst.org/2004comp/8-T...evA-markup.pdf )
it says that acceptable formats are quicktime (.mov) and to the best of my knowledge those can only be viewed in quicktime's player.