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AE PAL to NTSC Conversion Quality?
I’ve searched all posts but can’t find any mention of what the quality of doing a conversion using After EFfects is like (no special filters). Any ideas?
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Just like with any app that uses simple frameblending: average to mediocre. It really depends on your footage. If you have AE 7, you can get slightly better results with the Timewarp effect instead of using plain AE. The only (to my eyes) perfect conversion from inside AE can be achieved using Algolith’s plugins but they are extremely expensive, slow and prone to crashes.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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How’s Twixtor, Mylenium?
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Twixtor is okay, but I found it unsatisfying considering it does motion vector analysis. Dunno, though, that was an older version back then when we tested it. Quite possible it works much better these days.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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Aren’t Algolith the plugins you can “rent” for a few days if you only have a few conversions to do ?
I agree they’re great, though with a bit of a cryptic interface, if memory serves.I think it was less than $ 70 to license it for a week.
look them up.
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When using AE to do a standards conversion, is the conversion a better quality if converting an Animation created within After Effects (e.g. particle emitter on black background) versus a PAL interview clip.
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Not sure what you mean…
if you mean opening an after effects comp that consists of only stills and/or generated elements (flares, fractal noises, keyframed stills or vector art etc.) and changing it’s composition settings from PAL 25 to NTSC 30:
Yes you will get pristine quality.But as soon as you’re re-rendering quicktimes or Avis that have allready been rendered in one format to another: you’re losing quality.
The only minor advantage *might* be that a fully computer-generated movie may have less noise and thus less encoding artefacts that don’t get in the way of interpretting the actual detail in the movie. But that’s a stretch I think.
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