OT: frame size of movies for demo

[Johnny]

I have a few scraps of movies, and plans for more, but wonder if there's a 'best' size, in pixel dimensions, that I ought to make my movies for showing to other people..

Some I have are 400x300..might seem annoyingly small to some. I thought that 1200x900 might be a more suitable size to prevent squinting and to just plain show a nicer, larger image, but might slow the frame rate playing speed of lesser computers.

Are there thoughts on this?

thanks!

Johnny

[drclare]

I'd say you can't go wrong with 640*480. This is larger enough to show the detail in your movies small enough to play even on slower computers. Plus it is a very standard size. This is what you would export DV movies to for display on computer monitors. Also, if you then need to output them to DV, you can do it with virtually no quality loss due to stretching. If you are looking for small file sizes though, for emailing or posting on the web, 320*240 is good. Then you can view that frame size doubled and it will still look pretty good.

[Beamtracer]

It depends on what the recipient will view these movie files on.

If you want them to download your file then you need to keep it small. If you want them to watch it on CD-ROM then you may still need to keep it small so it'll play smoothly off their CD-ROM player. Don't forget many computers have really slow CD players.

[Johnny]

Originally posted by Beamtracer
If you want them to watch it on CD-ROM then you may still need to keep it small so it'll play smoothly off their CD-ROM player. Don't forget many computers have really slow CD players.

to that end, do you feel that 640*480 is a good size?

J

[mlinde]

Originally posted by Johnny
to that end, do you feel that 640*480 is a good size?

Depending on the CD-ROM drive, the size of the video will be a BIG problem, but if the machine is less than 5 years old you can render to 640x480. Machines with CD-ROM drives SLOWER than 8x will play better with 320x240, machines with drives slower than 4x will play better with 160x120. Now these are CD-ROM drives. DVD drives typically play CDs with a minimum 8x, some DVD-R/ drives play up to 48x CDs.