Okay, so I'm bound and determined to make a video screensaver to distribute on my site. Out of the dozen or so that I downloaded and tested the shareware, this one stood out as the best:

http://www.21hua.com/

Several reasons, but I won't expound unless someone cares. Regardless, as it supports vid I made the loop in Vegas and rendered as an avi. Looks great in Vegas, looks good on external, but I noticed the middle logo looks horrible. So I opened it up with just Windows Media Player, and by golly it looks awful there to. Here's the avi file if you would like to see what I'm taking about:

www.undergroundplanet.com/misc/screensaver.zip

So I've tried exporting in every possible format, avi, mpeg, quicktime, wmv, same result with all. I've tried doing the logo as a png with transparency, a psd with transparency, tried putting it on a colored background and chromakeying it out ... all the same. No matter what I seem to do it only looks good in Vegas ( and I would bet it would look fine on a DVD. I use almost the same animation as the background for my menus ) So, after spending about 12 hours more than I planed to chasing this little problem and re-rendering it a million times, thought I'd ask for a little input. Even though this is ultimately for just a screensaver, the problem has bigger implications that just that.

So, anyone ?


- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com