Why is it when I...

[thefish]

Why is it when I make an animated movie the color looks really bad, but when I make a normal movie everything is fine? I use virtual dub, PICVideo and my TV card to get the show then I convert it to MPEG1 with TMPG. Is there something I need to do different to make a VCD for animated movies?

[Dhruv]

Does this happen to the .avi that you capture or only after you've converted to MPEG?

[thefish]

The AVI looks fine. It only happens after I convert it to MPEG.

[thefish]

Bump!

Someone must have an idea. Is there a better encoder for cartoons?

[Shabubu]

MPEG is similar to JPEG compression, these compression algorithms are perfect for photo type pics, but they have problems with large fileds of colour and sharp edges, which obviously animation has a lot of. The only way to fix it is to give more bitrate, use smaller resoulutions (so the bitrate you has is more "concentrated&quot, add smoothing filters to try and break up the edges a little.

According to luke's video (who specialises in animation encoding), the best way to compress anime's is Realplayer 8. This is obviously only if you plan to watch on computers.