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  Screen capture video in after effects. Resolution question

  Posted by Cecilia Ruiz-smith on August 10, 2011 at 3:02 pm

  Hi, I’m working on an AE project that includes footage captured directly from my monitor. I used Capture Wiz to capture Google Earth tours. I captured the video at 1280 x 720 using these settings from CaptureWiz: Export as WMV, 32bit,29.97fps. I then imported the footage into AE composition and interpreted the footage to fit the composition: 720×480 standard NTSC widescreen 29.90/fps.

  Rationale: Initially, I tried capturing google earth tour using their settings for standard ntsc (720×486)to match the composition settings for my AE project (ntsc standard widescreen) but this rendered a worse image this is why I decided to try a higher resolution capture (1280×720) hoping that it would look better in After effects after rendering. It helped but not that much

  When I render the AE footage as avi (best settings, lossless) then convert to MPEG2-DVD (using ntsc progessive high quality widescreen setting in the adobe media encoder) the resolution looks somewhat soft. Is there anything I can do to boost imported film footage resolution?

  Any advice would be appreciated

  THANK YOU!

  Cecilia Ruiz-smith replied 15 years ago 39,424 Members · 1 Reply
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  Cecilia Ruiz-smith

  August 11, 2011 at 5:24 pm

  Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. Since then, I’ve been running tests and I found that outputting from media encoder using “match source attributes at highest quality” makes the image a bit sharper. I can live with this little improvement.

  Also, I was gratified to learn from you that I’ve done all of the right things to try and get the best image possible for DVD. I can live with the results.

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