• Adobe After Effects

  animation on DVD

  Posted by 149047 on August 16, 2007 at 5:05 pm

  hi everyone!

  being a complete AE newbie i would like to ask a couple of basic questions as to a render i was asked to do by a client.

  task: animation stretched over three tv monitors.

  i have 3071 frames at 2160×576 px.
  in order to make it animate slow and smooth i stretched the time-scale to 500 percent. the output now runs over some 5 minutes. i might even try 1000 percent to stretch it even more. the interpolation mode is “pixel movement”

  now my question: which format should i render the animation to? it is going to be burned on DVD and played on a notebook. which codecs work best? what should i take into account to achive best quality?

  is there a chance to render and then later tweak the output (add effects etc) or do i have to render again?

  thanx for your time

  ps: is there an AE irc channel somewhere out there?
  pps: using AE cs3 on winxp

  markus

  http://www.humanchaos.net

  149047 replied 18 years, 9 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kevin Camp

  August 16, 2007 at 8:02 pm

  well, if i’m not mistaken, a pal dvd resolution is 720×576, so if you have 1 laptop playing the dvd you will need to scale your comp to 720×576, and there will need to be a way for the laptop to stretch it back to 2160×576 (to fill the 3 monitors).

  or you will need 3 laptops each playing a dvd in each monitor, and each dvd containing 1/3 of your animation. in which case you will need to break your animatino into 3 rendered files.

  as far as codecs/formats go, i would prefer to render to lossless animation or an uncompressed avi, whichever my dvd authoring software could read. then let the dvd software do the mpeg2 encoding.

  as far as tweaking the output, if the tweaks are minor you could just bring the rendered footage back into ae and make adjustments, then render with those adjustments, which should be faster than re-rendering the original comp. but if you needed to significantly modify the footage, like remove an element, you’ll be going back to the origianl comp and re-rendering.

  Kevin Camp
  Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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  149047

  August 18, 2007 at 6:18 pm

  well – first of all: thanx for your answers 🙂
  as to your question: well, i think i will give “matrox’s triple head to go” a try. it says it can transfer the vga signal to the three monitors in thirds.

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