• Adobe After Effects

  MPeg for DVD

  Posted by Frank Weber on July 4, 2005 at 12:34 pm

  Is mpeg-2 the best option to render out of AFX for creating broadcast quality DVD’s and for backups???
  I have experimented with lots of formats and MPeg2 seems very efficient but poor in quality.

  Frank Weber replied 20 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  July 4, 2005 at 2:52 pm

  For archiving footage from old projects I render to Quicktime with the Photo-JPEG codec at 89 or 94%.

  For DVDs I render out of AE to the Animation codec (Quicktime again) then use Apple’s Compressor to compress to MPEG-2. I use Cleaner instead of Compressor when on the PC.

  Steve
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  Jon W.

  July 4, 2005 at 9:12 pm

  If you don’t have a hardware solution for mpeg2, then for Mac I like “Bitvice” and on PC “Procoder”. I’ve never gotten good results w/ Cleaner, but supposedly w/ Compressor you can get nice mpeg2 footage as well.
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  Yoondo

  July 5, 2005 at 12:56 am

  Hi, is it the Canopus Procoder that you are talking about? Also, are
  you saying that no hardware is needed with the Procoder for MPEG 2?

  Thanks
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  Frank Weber

  July 5, 2005 at 9:58 am

  Thanks so much guys! I also use Photo Jpeg compression (A) for backups but it seems to make thinks go allot darker when pulled into a Mac?? Weird.
  I’ll try Procoder and Cleaner and see if their Mpeg 2’s are better than AFX’s.

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