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Having to render as MPEG-2… ugh
Recently completed a video presentation with After Effects, and now my clients want the presentation to be part of a Power Point. However, instead of simply linking to the video in Power Point, they want it actually embedded in the Power Point. The only way for this to be possible, I understand, is to render it out as an MPEG-2. But it’s terrible! It makes all the footage incredibly dark and also squeezes it from 4:3 to 3:2. Any work arounds for this?
Mike Browning
U.S. Customs and Border Protection
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[MikeyBee] “It makes all the footage incredibly dark and also squeezes it from 4:3 to 3:2.”
First, I recommend that you use another program to compress your AE render into an MPEG-2 (Compressor comes to mind if you’re on a Mac). Secondly, there’s no reason that it should squeeze your footage to a 3:2 aspect ratio. What are the composition/render settings of your footage?
I’m surprised you find it looks darker, as I usually see the opposite effect in most MPEG-2s. If this is the case you can apply some corrections to it either in AE or in Compressor (or another 3rd party app).
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
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Are you on a Mac or a PC? And which version of AE are you working on?
What are your Render and Output settings like?You shouldn’t be in 3:2 aspect ratio – it’s definitely a user-error. If it looks dark then brighten it up a wee bit in AE. You could also try rendering to WMV9. Better image quality with smaller file sizes. I would test a short segment of the the footage at 1/2 screen size and double the size during playback as the WMV CODEC does a decent job with scaling during playback if full-rez isn’t giving you the desired quality or frame rate during playback.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
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When you figure out your current problem, I would like to know how you
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I’m on PC with AE7 Pro
The problem is that there aren’t really any relevant settings to change in AE’s MPEG-2 dialogue.
I did actually bring an uncompressed QT version into Premiere Pro and convert it that way, and just compensated for the darkness. That fixed the scaling issues, and helped with the color, but still looks crummier than I’ve previously dealth with in MPEG-2.
I will keep playing with it
Thanks, all.
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[Shawn L] “This process I would consider linking in which to mention wasn
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Premiere and AE uses the same MPEG-2 export engine. It’s a waste of time to render out from AE to bring the resultant file into PPro. Did you try to import the AEP into PremierePro, a copy and past of AE’s Timeline?
If you’d like to have player controls for your audio and movies in PowerPoint, then select, embed media object. I may be wrong with the actual phrase used in the menu. But it’s different from the add audio/movie menu command, which doesn’t provide a playback controller.
Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
https://www.broadcastGEMs.com – Adobe After Effects project files
https://www.myspace.com/rorkrgbspace -
Yikes!
I wrote that after a 48 hour marathon AE session. What I meant to say was:
The process of inserting the video file I use ( described above ) is what I would consider
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