• Adobe After Effects

  MODS pls help… i need to sort out a simple rendering issue.

  Posted by Mohit Woody on September 13, 2006 at 3:47 pm

  i hv my movie 35 secs long.. and its 720 by 576. PAL 24fps
  the output medium is cinema screen / DVD

  its a movie production house logo.

  i need to know.. which codec to use so tht i dont loose quality when this shown on big screen.thanks

  Steve Roberts replied 19 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Steve Roberts

  September 13, 2006 at 4:31 pm

  First render out of AE to a high-quality codec such as Quicktime Animation, or uncompressed AVi if you have to.

  Next, anything for DVD has to be compressed to the MPEG-2 codec. You have no choice in the matter. Now, when compressing to MPEG-2, you should use VBR (variable bitrate encoding) and go for as high a data rate as possible. You can use compression software such as Sorenson (if I recall correctly) or your DVD Authoring application. I use Compressor or the MegaPeg application. For more details, check out the DVD COW.

  Now, you may have to change your frame rate to 25 for PAL DVD. Again, check the DVD COW.

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