AE -> Ppro and “in place frames”

[Hiostt]

Noob mistake. In AE’s export settings i had FPS “best” which probably are 24 and it of course should be 25 like original.

[Hiostt]

Btw is there big difference beetween thousands of colours and millions of colours in EA’s export settings?

15 second clip in thousands of colours are 298MB and in millions of colours it is 446MB. Bg Size differce but how is the quality? In my eyes there is no big differences.

[Steve Roberts]

It depends on your animation. Designers of computer displays for movies often render at 256 colours because the animation has a very limited colour palette. However, if you have any smooth gradients, such as a clear sky at twilight, you will see separate bands of colour at the thousands setting.

If your animation consists of solid colours with no gradients, no blurs, you might be able to get by.

Make sure your computer’s monitor is set to millions or more in your computer’s display settings.
If you’re showing the final on video, you should also get a TV and hook it up to your computer through a camcorder from your computer’s firewire port. More info is in the manual.

Steve

[Hiostt]

My project is “shine video wall” (tutorial by Jayse) and final project will be on dvd so which color setting is best for that? I don’t think that 256 colors is enough 😉

[Steve Roberts]

Here’s my DVD process:

1. create animation in AE, comp set to DV-NTSC preset
2. render to Quicktime Animation codec, millions of colours
3. Convert video to MPEG-2 in Apple’s Compressor app
4. Import MPEG-2 video into Apple’s DVD-Studio Pro app.

The steps are the same for other apps — just insert the name of your compression app (Cleaner or ProCoder) and your Authoring app (Encore?).

Step 2 ensures that your MPEG-2 video is of highest quality: garbage in, garbage out.

You must convert your video to MPEG-2 and author your DVD with a DVD authoring app.

Steve

[Hiostt]

I’m using PAL material and I have pc 🙂

I was going to create my porject in AE, export it with No compression and then import it to Ppro and Burn to DVD. I think that way I get the best quality, am I wrong?

[Steve Roberts]

Then do this:

1. create animation in AE, comp set to DV-PAL preset
2. render to Quicktime Animation codec, millions of colours (“none” compression makes huge files with no noticeable increase in quality)
3. Convert the video to MPEG-2 in an application that can convert to MPEG-2.
4. Import the MPEG-2 video into an application that can author DVDs with menus and so on.

You must convert your video to MPEG-2 and author your DVD with a DVD authoring app if you want to play the DVD on TV. You can’t just burn a video to a DVD-R and expect a set-top DVD player to play the DVD-R on TV.

I don’t know if Premiere Pro can author a proper DVD. You probably need Encore DVD.

Steve

[Hiostt]

Ok. I have done several DVD’s with Ppro. It encode the porject and then burn it to DVD. Has worked just fine.

[Steve Roberts]

Then it sounds like you’re fine.

You should run some tests to compare the quality and file size of the Animation codec with No compression, just to see for yourself.

Steve

[Hiostt]

Ok, thanks for your help.