Frames joining software

[dearvamsy@gmail.com]

I know this question may have been asked a million times, however I would very much appreciate an expert opinion from you all specific to my situation, especially I have very limited experience in this area.

I have about 2500 frames at 25 fps, each exported from a 3D modeling engine at a resolution of 1600 X 900. I have used Windows Movie Maker to export a video (wmv file) by joining these frame. The profile I used for it: 1600 X 900, Data Rate: 8000kbps, 25 fps. I assumed that the quality would be nice since those are high resolution frames, may be because of compresstion, the video does not look like a quality resolution. The frames by itself look like high resolution ones when opened independently with a picture viewer.

Are there any settings in WMV I could tinker with, or would you suggest another software for this job. Thanks.

[Cauptain]

Try Windows Expression Encoder 4. Its create very nice files using WMV container.




Claudio

[dearvamsy@gmail.com]

As I understand, windows expression encoder can import video clips but not still frame.

[poisondeathray]

Is WMV format required ? You will get better compression with a good AVC/h.264 encoder (i.e. at equivalent bitrates, h264 will give better quality with something like x264 encoder)

Within WMV, you will get slightly better quality using WVC1 compression (aka "VC1" or advanced profile) over WMV3

[dearvamsy@gmail.com]

WMV container is not a requirement. I can use any commonly available codec. Please suggest if I can use any other software. Thanks.

[Cornucopia]

You are starting with a sequence of uncompressed still images - how are you wanting this to end up? What is the device/use/audience? That will determine what to do with it.

And as has been said a million times here, if you use lossy compression (the kind most used in end-user formats), you will INVARIABLY lose some quality (that's why they call it "lossy"). How much depends on lots of factors: resolution, image complexity & contrast, motion complexity & variation, color variation & bitdepth, colorspace & subsampling, encoding bitrate & rate control, encoder algorithms & efficiency, etc., but pdr is right, you will get better compression with h.264/AVC.

More info details on your process and samples uploaded can help a great deal here.

Scott