• Adobe After Effects

  AE Render Settings for NTSC Broadcast

  Posted by Darby Edelen on May 18, 2007 at 10:35 pm

  I’m currently working on my first 30 second commercial spot and I wonder if anyone can help me with the render settings I’m going to want to use.

  The editing for the spot was done in Final Cut Pro, then I brought the entire 30 seconds into AE for titling and effects. Should I render out of AE with the correct field order or render losslessly and use something like compressor to get the field order? Is there a preferred codec for NTSC broadcast or is field order/resolution my only concern?

  Darby Edelen
  DVD Menu Artist
  Left Coast Digital
  Aptos, CA

  Shawn Marshall replied 19 years ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Shawn Marshall

  May 18, 2007 at 10:53 pm

  Yes, render out of AE with the field order that your video hardware uses. Most NTSC hardware is lower field first. Use the codec that’s appropriate for your hardware.

  You can’t frame render something in After Effects and magically convert it to fields in another program; the information isn’t there. When you field render in AE, you’re creating 59.94 fields per second, roughly 60 time slices per second. When you frame render (progressive), you get 29.97 full frames per second, roughly 30 time slices per second. The frame render has half the time slices of the field render, and the field render will look smoother when played back through NTSC hardware onto an NTSC monitor or VTR.

  Shawn Marshall
  Marshall Arts Motion Graphics

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