topic Re: Animation Vidoes Poor Quality in Mapping Questions

Animation Vidoes Poor Quality

EricCallahan — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:00:37 GMT

When exporting videos/animation using the animation toolbar or time slider toolbar the image quality is very poor. Changing resolution or compression quality does not improve the result nor does exporting sequential jpg images. Exporting individual files by going to "File" > "Export Map" produces good quality files.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to what is wrong or is this a typical result for this feature.

Thanks

Re: Animation Vidoes Poor Quality

EricCallahan — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 13:06:54 GMT

Lets start with the basics then. Chime in if you have successfully or unsuccessfully used this feature. You don't need to give details just a couple of words.

Thanks.

Re: Animation Vidoes Poor Quality

DavidWatkins — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:17:43 GMT

By default, when you apply compression using a �??codec�??, the resulting video is going to be pixelated or not that sharp.

The lesser the compression, the larger the AVI or sequential image size on disk. For exporting to AVI�??s you could choose not to apply any compression by choosing the �??Fully Uncompressed�?? codec from the Compression Settings dialog. Also, if you have other 3rd party codecs from other video/animation processing software, you can try those as well. For sequential image export, you can try BMP instead of JPEG.

Here is a help topic about some tips on exporting videos:
http://help.arcgis.com/en/arcgisdesktop/10.0/help/index.html#//000900000062000000.htm

Hope this helps,
David

Re: Animation Vidoes Poor Quality

EricCallahan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:00:19 GMT

Unfortunately none of that has an effect on quality. Thank you though.