[Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited)

[Berk Geveci]

That difference is definitely because of setting differences between
the two version. 3 uses light kit by default. 2 did not, I believe.

-berk

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Renato N. Elias <rnelias at nacad.ufrj.br> wrote:
>
> Forgive me. In fact, it helped. When I said that, I was making reference to
> the movie produced by pv.2.6.2 which, in my opinion, is the best in quality.
>
> []'s
>
> Renato.
>
> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>
>> Hi Renato,
>>
>> I am confused, why do you say unchecking use-offscreen hasn't helped much?
>> I can see that pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi is well-lit when compared
>> with pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi, or am I missing something here?
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>> Renato N. Elias wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Utkarsh,
>>>
>>> yes, I'm using a Windows machine and the offscreen rendering option has
>>> not helped so much :-(
>>>
>>> Just for comparison, I produced the same movie using PV3.4.0 and PV2.6.2.
>>> Take a look:
>>>
>>> ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots UNchecked):
>>>
>>> http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-UNCHECKED.avi
>>>
>>> ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots checked):
>>>
>>> http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-CHECKED.avi
>>>
>>> ParaView-2.6.2:
>>> http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-2.6.2.avi
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>>
>>> Renato.
>>>
>>>
>>> Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Renato,
>>>>
>>>> Is this on a windows machine? Can you try the following:
>>>> * Go to View|Settings
>>>> * In the Options dialog choose the "Render View"  in the tree view on
>>>> the left pane and then set "Use Offscreen Rendering for Screenshots" to
>>>> unchecked and then save the animation. Is this any better?
>>>>
>>>> Utkarsh
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Renato N. Elias wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Some time ago I reported the poor quality of the movies that I've been
>>>>> creating in PV version 3. They seem darkened (I turned on the lights) and
>>>>> with low resolution (952 x 554 seems to be a good resolution). No one
>>>>> answered me and I concluded that the problem was some misconfiguration I
>>>>> made. Ok, but the problem is that I'm still not able to save any avi file
>>>>> with a decent quality using PV3. In PV2, any movie produced had, at least,
>>>>> the same quality of the still images rendered on main window. What's the
>>>>> difference between PV2 and PV3 in terms of movie rendering? Is there
>>>>> anything that I could configure to solve it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for any help
>>>>>
>>>>> Renato.
>>>>>
>>>>>
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