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What's a good frame size to save my videos in?

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BladeMan.EXE:
I've tried 1200 by 1000, but it took forever to render and wouldn't even play without slowing it down and skipping a few parts.

480 by 240 works well, but it seems a little small.

davdud101:
Standard resolutions are:
1080h x 1920w (Full HD)
720h x 1280w (HD)
480h x 854w (480p, HQ)
480h x 640w (LQ)

These are all widescreen or 16:9, except the last one.which I THINK is a 4:3 aspect ratio.

The best quality for the render time is probably 480 tall*854 wide.
Do remember that Anim8or's scanline renderer goes from bottom to top, so I *think* you can sometimes render a larger (wider) image size without sacrificing more time (but if I'm wrong, someone correct me!)

thecolclough:

--- Quote from: davdud101 on April 13, 2015, 06:39:12 pm ---...so I *think* you can sometimes render a larger (wider) image size without sacrificing more time (but if I'm wrong, someone correct me!)
--- End quote ---
going to have to correct you there, i'm afraid - every pixel is calculated separately, so a higher-res version of an image will always take longer to render than a lower-res.  if the images aren't complicated and the render times are generally low anyway, then you might not *notice* much difference between resolutions, but the difference will still be there.

also, as a side note: the usual convention seems to be to express resolutions as WxH, rather than HxW, e.g. 1280 x 720 :)

there's an interesting side-effect from all this: if you go for a letterboxed cinematic widescreen format (approx 2.40:1 ratio, as used by many major blockbuster films e.g. Star Wars, Hobbit etc), then you can simultaneously reduce your pixel count and therefore reduce your render times - 1280 x 540 will render quicker than 1280 x 720 - *and* you can make your camerawork look more pro!  just a thought...

davdud101:
Yeah, actually thecolclough, you mentioned a lot of stuff I meant to say at some (particularly using the ultra-wide 2.4:1)
I did height by width because it does seem that most 'progressive numbers' are named by height, i.e. 1080p, 480, etc, but width by height the preferred listing. Good additional points!

cooldude234:
12k  ;)

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