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Animation to DVD or Tape problems
Ok beautiful people of the cow family… i come seeking your infinite wisdom.
The situation:
I have multiple TVC’s that are for broadcast, consisting of both motion and video. I have rendered them from AE using both the animation & uncompressed formats. I have been trying a couple of methods for final delivery:1. creating a DVD using Studio Pro – but some of the movies (not all) flicker a bit and look slightly pixelated.
2. transfer to tape (DV) by importing the movie into Final Cut Pro – but the movies look blurred and loose quality in the viewer window (even after being rendered).
So i guess i am asking a few things:
1. What is the best format to render the animation from AE for the highest quality?
2. What is the best process to get the highest quality video to final delivery (DVD or DV Tape) or other?
3. Any other advice you can think ofThanks heaps for your advice in advance. Really appreciated,
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[dan cooper] “2. transfer to tape (DV) by importing the movie into Final Cut Pro – but the movies look blurred and loose quality in the viewer window (even after being rendered).”
Check your field settings. I’m not on a Mac, but “bluriness” usually means your fields get re-ordered or interpolated on import.
[dan cooper] “creating a DVD using Studio Pro – but some of the movies (not all) flicker a bit and look slightly pixelated.”
Check for broadcast safe levels and apply a slight blur. Since it’s based on blocks, MPEG-II is sensitive to certain color levels will expose problems with fine detail. Slightly softening will improve this, but it will never completely go away.
for final delivery choose decent tapes. Anything below DVCPro is rubbish. Most TV and broadcast centers here in Germany use DigitalBetacam and DVCPro 50. Dunno how it is where you live.
Mylenium
[Pour Myl
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There are a lot of options… Some of my clients want QT files – generally AVID Codecs of some sort – depends upon client. Some I deliver on DVCAM and others on Digibeta.
Big thing – you need to make sure your levels are good. Read up on “broadcast safe” and “ntsc legal”. There is a good tutorial somewhere around here. Also you need to expirement with field rendering. But you have to watch your input video as well.
There are lots of places where you can create issues for yourself.
Ask – what format, what codecs if it is a file – and what field order for those files.
Also – the DV Codec on your computer screen looks nasty – take it to tape and watch on a broadcast monitor from your deck.
Some stuff requires softening too – as the other post mentions.
Good luck!
RF
Roman Flute
Motion Graphics/Multimedia Developer
http://www.romanflute.com
roman@romanflute.com
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