• Adobe After Effects

  AE export for Encore

  Posted by Wim Roegels on December 29, 2006 at 9:47 pm

  Hi,

  a customer wants me to export a couple of AE-Animations to as m2v / mpeg2 files for use in Encore DVD 2.0 without transcoding.

  So far I used the out of box setting MPEG-DVD without changing anything and he complains about a import problem (progress bar keeps jumping back simulating to import, but never stops) – does anyone have a hint?

  Is it possible to check the import function wth the demo of encore 2?

  Has anyone some experiences to share?

  Thanks.

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  Best regards

  wim

  Wim Roegels replied 19 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Mylenium

  December 29, 2006 at 9:57 pm

  Please forgive me, but using any of the presets in the MPEG-II exporter isn’t particularly efficient or clever. Moreover it’s not particularly smart of your client to let you fly blind – he should at least give you some info what data rates he expects or how much space on the disc your work is actually allowed to occupy, which to me means that he doesn’t know his way around Encore very well, either. You can check your problem with the demo of Encore, but since you don’t know what your client is doing, it may not help you much – it may work for you, but he still may have problems. So to cut it short: Get an external harddrive, put your work in various MPEG-II compressions on it along with a non-transcoded version as an AVI or MOV, plug said disk in your clients workstation and try if any of your assets imports. If everything fails, the clean files should get in even if it means having to transcode from inside Encore.

  Mylenium

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  Wim Roegels

  December 29, 2006 at 10:34 pm

  Its not the point, that I am a kind of ‘preset junkie’ – but while not beeing able to test a thing in Encore, I thought about using the Presets to take advantage of the Adobe family bonus; without luck I think.

  My customer ‘wants to do the DVD authoring himself’ for buget reasons, ignoring the fact that I could – by doing the complete job – save him a lot of money, time and nerves at the end of the day.

  Anyway.

  The ‘hard way’ like you discribed before (using a external Harddrive), is always a possibility, but was not my personal favorite … as you can imagine, with these detailed requiremnts (I want to import to encore and use the clips without transcoding), it is also not my very favorite client.

  Thanks for the reply … I think I will try the Encore 2.0 Demo.

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  Best regards

  wim

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