Renato, Try turning off the light kit. That gave me some trouble in the past. If that helps, try removing the personalized paraview config files.
Alan -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Utkarsh Ayachit Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 12:42 PM To: Renato N. Elias Cc: paraview@paraview.org Subject: Re: [Paraview] Poor movie quality (revisited) 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-U > NCHECKED.avi > > > ParaView-3.4.0 (Offscreen rendering for screenshots checked): > http://www.nacad.ufrj.br/~rnelias/paraview/movies/pv-3.4.0_offscreen-C > HECKED.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. >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> ParaView mailing list >>> ParaView@paraview.org >>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview _______________________________________________ ParaView mailing list ParaView@paraview.org http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview