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farss wrote on 7/14/2006, 11:36 PM
Are you certain you were rendering to an AVI file?
AVI files are fixed bitrate, that's probably why you couldn't find a way to change the bitrate.

Actually the above isn't quite true but I assume you were rendering to a DV AVI file (if that's wgat you were doing.

Bob.
CyberViking2000 wrote on 7/15/2006, 7:51 AM
Yes, I was using the AVI option. I wasn't aware that it didn't allow bitrate change. That makes sense.

The only problem is that the renders in this AVI format are blocky. If it weren't AVI, it would allow me to change the bitrate, correct?

Perhaps I should re-capture from tape as DV instead of HDV (which I had edited and then rendered out as DV AVI).

Are there any tips for fixing blocky DV AVI?
jrazz wrote on 7/15/2006, 7:54 AM
What template did you use? Did you adjust anything?
Try doing a short render of a section of your project- like 10 seconds and try again.
If it is still blocky, try a different setting under the avi template.

j razz
johnmeyer wrote on 7/15/2006, 10:06 AM
Selecting the "AVI" option is only part of the story. You have to select the correct AVI template. In the Render As dialog, there are a dozen AVI templates. If you are in the US, you want one of the NTSC templates, usually the NTSC DV template is the one to use (or the widescreen template, if you shot in widescreen). In Europe, use PAL.
newhope wrote on 7/15/2006, 5:30 PM
Try going to Preferences/General and seeing if 'Ignore Third Party Codecs' is ticked.
If it isn't then this may be the problem.

I had the same 'blocky' results some 18 months ago when I made some changes to this setting to see if it would help me render compatible AVI's for After Effects 4.0. In the end it didn't but all of my rendered AVIs turned out blocky until I went back to preferences and ticked this setting.

Hope this helps

Stephen Hope
New Hope Media