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  Finalising my films

  Posted by Nina Bjer on September 15, 2010 at 9:43 am

  Hi, I’m trying to finalise my film but have problems doing so. I have got good tips from Dave, but still have some worries, so if anyone could help I would be very, very happy and greateful! 🙂

  For rendering I go to Add to Render Que. In the Render Settings dialogue box i leave it as it is. (the size is 1440 x 1080).

  In the Output Module settings dialogue box:

  Based on Lossless

  Video for Windows är pre-chosen, so I change this to Quick Time.

  Channels RGB

  Color: Premultiplied

  The Stretch dialogue box is greyed out, and the width and height is 1440 x 1080. The little box here saying Lock Aspect Ratio to 4:3 is ticked already. Why? Sould untick it?

  There is also the dropdown menu where I can chose to stretch the 1440 x 1080 video to Custom or HDV 1080 25 or DVCPRO HD 720 23,976… I don’t want to stretch the format, shall I leave this unchecked?

  Audio 48 kHz.

  I tried to export like this to see if it worked, and turned out to be 16:9, but it crashed…

  I am still on my PC with HD video.

  /Nina

  Nina Bjer replied 15 years, 8 months ago 35,585 Members · 2 Replies
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  Nina Bjer

  September 17, 2010 at 8:42 am

  Hi, Dave, Yes I understand that it is not easy to give a simple answer. I’m very greateful that you still try to help me! I have tried to answer the questions below, but maybe I have misunderstood something and not given a good answer…

  Because we don’t know how your rendered AE project will be used NEXT.
  – I want to do the this with the file:
  * make a playable DVD using Encore
  * make a file for others to include in festivals and so on
  * make a file for export to Beta SP tape for festival use

  We don’t know what kind of editing application will use your animations.
  – I only use After Effects for animating (or am I misunderstanding your question?)

  We don’t know if an editing application will even be part of your workflow.
  – I capture in Pinnacle Studio (because i have to since my avchd format is not accepted by SC3)) and then edit in Premiere and Afre Effects CS3, and then I use Adobe Encore CS3, if/when I put the file on DVD.

  We don’t know what kind of a computer you have.
  – A PC, HP Pavillion laptop dv 9686

  We don’t know your operating system
  – Windows Vista Home Premium (32 I think?)

  your processors and cores
  – Intel (R) Core (TM) 2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2,20 GHz

  your storage capacity
  – two internal hard drives 142 GB + 149 GB

  the amount of memory on your machine
  – RAM memory, 4 GB

  the codec(s) of the footage you’re using,
  avchd hd footage, when it leavs Studio and comes to Premiere or AE it is Windows media file (HDV 1080/50i 1440×1080 or HDV 1080/50i 1920×1080).

  the codec to which you’re currently rendering,
  – Quictime, Animation

  the version of AE you run
  – After Effects CS3

  Thanks for any help!
  Nina
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  Nina Bjer

  September 20, 2010 at 4:21 pm

  Hi Dave, I have tried to list the info you asked for to be able to possibly help me. I would be very greateful if you could have a look! Thanks so much!
  Nina

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