• Adobe After Effects

  Exporting to DVD

  Posted by Laura Woolf on June 7, 2006 at 10:19 am

  Hello,

  I hope you can give some help. I have an animation/video project in after effects which I need to export to burn to DVD for an exhibition. The DVD player will be hooked up to an LCD projector. I really just want some simple advice on frame size/resolution and compression for a good quality image that I can then take into IDVD 3 (this is all I have) and burn. Is there a maximum resolution for DVD? Also I am slightly confused about square/non square pixels? At the moment I have the comp at 1024 x 768 PAL for full screen on my computer as I am lining up the projection from my computer. Does this correspond to DVD? I am new to this and any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated. Also it is 7mins and it takes 12hrs to render. Is there any way to make this faster?

  Many thanks,
  Laura

  Laura Woolf replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mylenium

  June 7, 2006 at 4:13 pm

  [Laura Woolf] “Is there a maximum resolution for DVD? Also I am slightly confused about square/non square pixels? At the moment I have the comp at 1024 x 768 PAL for full screen on my computer as I am lining up the projection from my computer. Does this correspond to DVD? I am new to this and any advice you could give would be greatly appreciated.”

  All DVD (Video) for PAL are 720 by 576 pixels. There’s no way around this. For 4:3 the pixel aspect would be 1.667, so you will have to nest your square pixel comp in a anamorphic comp with the proper D1 settings. The square pixel equivalent is 768×576. Usually you will also want to render fields, but for display on an LCD screen you can perhaps forego this and render progressive.

  [Laura Woolf] “Also it is 7mins and it takes 12hrs to render. Is there any way to make this faster?”

  Your comp is simply unneccessary large. Using proper sizes will cut down render times by one third, perhaps even more. However, since you seem to have everything already in place and will only be scaling your comp, you will have to live with the long render times – you will render many pixels that afterwards will be interpolated anyway and thus loose their unique detail. You could only avoid this by completely rebuilding your comp.

  Mylenium

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  Laura Woolf

  June 7, 2006 at 5:11 pm

  Thank you very much for your help. I think I will make the comp the right size and start again. It seems the logical thing to do.

  Thanks again,
  Laura

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