Hi everyone,
I would like to know what High Definition movies are. How do you get HD output from software like Maya perhaps or 3D Max. Is there any special resolution that you are supposed to render in? Any help is always welcome and appreciated. Thank You
You must be writing a paper.
Software like Maya can save files to different formats.
The render process is totally in your hand but be warned the more details you wont in your final render, the longer it will take to render.
Your first question, I do not understand.
Thank you for your help.. actually what i wanted to know is what is HD as i have been hearing about it a lot. secondly, i want to make a short film and was thinking of entering it in a film festival.. therefore the question.
HD is basically any video media over standard definition(720x480 or 720x576). While a computer monitor(LCD or CRT) can do a whole range of resolutions above standard definition HDTVs are can only display specific resolutions of HD which are usually 720p, 1080p, or 1080i.
Every major CG application on the market can render out HD and beyond. When you render a scene there should be a menu that lets you select the file type (.EXR, .PNG, .TIFF, .MOV etc) and resolution you want your rendered scene outputted to. You should render out your animation to fit whatever your intended media distribution is and there is alot of them out there.
I hope this helps.
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In my work, HD is considered 1920x1080 at 23.976 fps.
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Thanks a lot. Any and every information is of great help. Thank you very much.
I've been wondering about HD myself, especially in relation to 2D animation. Is there much of a difference in wuality when a 2D show is rendered in HD? What about shows made in Flash? The way I understand it is that, in Flash, the SWF is a vector file and has no loss of quality, so it seems like it wouldn't be able to get any sharper than that.
Anyone know about any of this?
i think it depends in what native resolution you work in when it comes to 2d. i.e. the highest render settings you pick must be the minimum settings you work with.
ive rendered HD in Flash and it looks very very crisp and glossy, for the project im working on i need to go HD, transfer to film and then re-scan the negatives to 2k or 4k.
but we will be doing a lot of DI and post work to make it look less glossy...