2K TGA sequence files to DVD

[Steve Roberts]

Hmm … I’d drop the files into AE and render to the Animation codec at 720×480, non-square, then use Compressor (or the equivalent) to compress that file to MPEG-2.

There’s no quality gain in compressing a 2K file over a 720×480 file, in my opinion … if you’re going to DVD.

I suppose that there could be a difference between scaling down in AE when going to Animation, and scaling down in Compressor. A test might prove useful.

Hope that helps,
Steve
(Hi Barend!)

[Barend Onneweer]

[Steve Roberts] “(Hi Barend!)”

Huh?

Well, but now that my name is mentioned… There’s two things here: the scaling and the compression. I haven’t compared scaling algorythms between Compressor and AE, but I’d think for downscaling AE will do fine.

Depending on how grainy the source is you might want to degrain it a bit before scaling down. This will result in a much smoother image, that will compress a lot better.

You could use Adobe’s MPEG compressor, but I haven’t compared it to Compressor. I’ve used TMPGENC in the past, which is excellent for the price.

One thing to check: are you going to do an NTSC DVD? You’ll need to get into the whole pulldown situation which I’m no expert on. I’d give it a try in the DVD authoring forum. If you also want to do a PAL DVD I’d go back to the 2k source and do a PAL conversion from the 2k sequence. You don’t want to convert NTSC to PAL.

Bar3nd

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[Steve Roberts]

Well, it was the middle of the night, and you remarked that I’m online 24/7, and …

… oh, never mind. 🙂

Nice degraining tip.
Steve