• Adobe After Effects

  formats

  Posted by Jason Zaloga on June 2, 2010 at 10:22 pm

  project

  make video for 1st birthday on dvd to be played on a widescreen TV.

  settings i’m thinking for output from after effects.
  if I use animation codec the files come out very high. and unplayable at times(choppiness)
  if i use H.264 they are way more manageable and play smooth.

  I read that mpeg H.264 is for dvd.

  if I use animation(choppiness) do i need a compression software. same for mpeg H.264

  i’ve been reading that people are losing quality to there pics do to size/pixel.

  idvd is what i was going to load my dvd just because it came with the computer.

  i’m looking for project setting recommendations for both compressing pre-dvd (software to be used-cheap)
  and will idvd do the job.

  project settings

  time code base= auto
  ntsc drop frame

  color setting= 8bits or should i do16
  working space=? not sure

  audio settings=44.100khz

  comp settings

  preset=hdtv 1080 29.97 1920×1080 16:9 aspect or?

  render settings output

  format=quicktime

  format options video codec=H.264 or animation
  check mark 1 keyframe every 1 frame

  bitrate?

  sound codec=apple lossless

  and yes i am not an avid video user. i did not read the manual. and the formats are to me confusing.

  thanks everyone.

  Tudor “ted” jelescu replied 16 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  June 2, 2010 at 10:31 pm

  Easiest way for DVD (assuming you want a regular DVD and not Blue Ray):
  Use a QuickTime NTSC DV Widescreen preset on export(this will squeeze the video in a 4:3 frame, but it will look right on a 16:9 tv). You will have to resize (stretch) your footage to the same preset. Render out the .mov file and drop it in your iDVD 16:9 preset project. Burn to DVD and you are done.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
  Bucharest, Romania
  http://www.ennstudio.ro
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  Jason Zaloga

  June 2, 2010 at 11:43 pm

  what do you mean by “You will have to resize (stretch) your footage to the same preset”
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  Jason Zaloga

  June 2, 2010 at 11:53 pm

  can you explain a little more please on “high-quality file is what you want to use to make MPEG2 files.”

  so i can render out everything animation format. so in the output module i use MPEG2 H.264 (top of window) and for the video output it’s animation?

  or do I format to quicktime/codec animation then compress to H.264 with seperate software?
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  June 3, 2010 at 9:57 am

  iDVD is using QT files- Animation or DV are fine (DV is smaller size and much faster though and it does not seem to make much of a difference in the final compression that iDVD makes). Since you seem to have HD footage, you need to scale down the size of the output to fit a SD frame. You can do that in the output module of your render queue. Read up more on the adobe site.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
  Bucharest, Romania
  http://www.ennstudio.ro

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