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DVD authoring
Hey what’s a good dvd authoring software that goes well with intergrating after effects?
Blade
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There really isn’t one.
You create movies with After Effects and import the movies into an editing application and export the finished program to a DVD application.
You could go directly from AE’s rendering to a DVD app but I don’t know why you’d want to do that.bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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You should make first a Digital Master of your work, and then importing it in Premiere, or maaaaybe Adobe Encore (haven’t tryed it) you can author your DVD intuitively.
But no way by just using After Effects
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Okay, how bout, what’s just a really good dvd authoriing software period?
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For my workflow, I use Final Cut Studio. Typically, I do my work in AE – mainly menus and compositing effects for video. I import the .mov file (using Animation codec set at best) direclty into DVD Studio Pro. I then apply the assets the the correct menus. Tracks are made in Final Cut Pro and rendered out using Compressor. These files are brought into DVD Studio Pro and dropped into the tracks. Menus can be custom built fairly easily. Photoshop provides the grayscale .psd file for the buttons. It all works pretty well.
That’s the long answer.
Short answer – DVD Studio Pro – haven’t gone wrong with it yet.
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Also, Windows Vista comes with a decent Dvd authoring prog. (haven’t played much with it though). Maybe Encore works also good.
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If you’re using Encore, you can make up your menus and buttons in AE. Then you can set the button layers so they’re recognised as such in Encore – layer, adobe encore dvd, create button. And also set your subpictures (the highlighting that occurs when you select a button on a dvd) – layer, adobe encore dvd, set as subpicture 1 (first nest the subpicture[s] inside a comp you make for your button). You can then go to the frame of your menu animation (or the first frame if it’s a still menu) and save it as a photoshop file to import into Encore – composition, save frame as, photoshop layers. You can import the PSD into Encore as a menu, so Encore knows what type of asset (general name for file imported into Encore) it is. So, as you’d expect from 2 progs made by the came company, they work quite well together.
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[simon bonner] “So, as you’d expect from 2 progs made by the came company, they work quite well together. “
Thanks for the contribution, never used the Adobe suite for video myself, stuck with Apple’s tools which, by the way, do not necessarily work well together at all much of the time and the pathways that link the various Final Cut Suite applications together is inexplicably obtuse.
Even Adobe’s tools, from your explanation, suffer from requiring new or confusingly synonimical terminology to carry elements between the applciations.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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