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Is it possible to improve output quality on turntable mpgs?

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#1

Hey all,

Hoping someone can help me out here. Since the arrival of the aswesome 4r7, quicktimes (and the associated compression options) have disappeared from the output options for turntable renders within zbrush. This is quite a problem for us, as we’re trying to show high quality turnarounds without having to go to Maya or Keyshot. Has anyone come across a way to increase the quality (or reduce the compression even) on the default mpgs that are output with the H setting turned on? Any kind of gradient in the scene at all and it comes out with horrible banding, and the overall colours change quite significantly with the mpg format as well.

Would REALLY appreciate any help on this!

Cheers,
Seán

#2

Hey Sean. I was having this issue too and knocked out a couple of quick scripts to dump out high quality turntable and movie renders into png or tif files.

http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?194678-Frame-Sequence-Exporter

#3

Thanks for that! I’ll give it a go, haven’t done much timeline animation stuff (well, none actually, but I’ll look it up now).
Thanks a million, much appreciated. Still can’t understand why they got rid of the quicktime export option.
Cheers!
Seán

#4

That works very well, such a shame it’s on the wrong axis. As you say, I can always rotate the entire scene to get it to work as intended, and although it’s a little awkward, it’s still a lot better than the poor MPG compression.

Thanks again!
Seán

#5

Yeah it’s along the Z axis because performing a simple rotation on the x or y axis produces horrible gimbal lock issues and I cant fix those because I’m not a programmer, I’m an artist!

#6

Yep, I totally understand! Perhaps someone like marcus_civis could help us out? It would be a HUGE improvement if it saved us that hassle. (sorry Marcus, but you’re so damned helpful it’s hard not to ask you! Though I’m not even sure how to link you to this)

Seán