Best Animation Rendering Settings for 60inch TV

[Vince Becquiot]

Frame rate would have to be 23.976, 30P, or 60i for DVD.

Frame size in square pixels would be 648×480 for 4:3, or 854×480 for widescreen, or 720×480 with 0.9 PAR for 4:3, 720×480 with 1.2 PAR for widescreen.

For animation export, you can pick, Png or Tiff sequences, be careful about bit depth since Premiere doesn’t support 16 bits (at least it didn’t with the C4D exports I’ve done), do a test with a few frames prior if you can.

The advantage over Quicktime movies, etc is that you can re-render a small portion if you need to.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Micah Mcdowell]

If you’re playing on a standard DVD player, you want 720×480, 29.97 frames per second (it doesn’t matter if it’s a 10 inch tv or a 60 inch HDTV, the resolution will be the same if you’re putting it on a regular DVD in a regular DVD player). If you’re doing Blu-ray, this changes things a bit.

MOV and AVI are just container formats so it’s hard to tell exactly how your program is encoding them, since I have no experience with it. The PNG sequence sounds promising, but you may want to experiment.

[Awais Bilal]

first thank you for your reply 🙂

i think 24 fps would be fine settings for animation then , as i have been doing animation on same rate .By the way what is 30P & 60 i ? ( sorry for my stupid questions ,i haven’t burnt this kind of project on a dvd before )

ok how would i come to know that which resolution suits well with my project , i have seen that huge wide LCD and it has more width as compare to height and i want to play my project on its entire screen , in other words i dont want to have black border on top and bottom of project while screening it on that TV.So please guide me how can i get that 648×480 or 854×480 or 720×480 is fine for me ..i might be wrong 4:3 ratio is for ordinary TV and Widescreen will be fine for this project !?

thank you again for your guidance .

[Awais Bilal]

ok it makes so simple 720×480 with 29.97 frames per second and seems universal settings for dvd player running projects ,now i am bit confused i have suggested a different frame rate in earlier post which is 24fps 🙁

[Vince Becquiot]

Basically any of the 3 frame rates I suggested will work for a DVD. And It would be 24.976, not 24p. The second will not work. Since you are working in widescreen, you can choose 720×480 1.2 pixel aspect ratio.

For animation, your best choice may actually be 30p (progressive) if you have progressive DVD player.

[Awais Bilal]

ok thank you so much again for your guidance 🙂 , then it would be best for me if i make all my source animation files at 25 fps.But one more little thing confuses me rightnow that what resolution should i choose from my animation programme for source animation files which further would be used in adobe premiere for final editing purpose as well as in burning dvd, if i set my render setting for resolution size 720×480 in my animation software , would premiere not change its aspect ratio using 1.2 pixel ? i might be wrong as i fear it might disturb final quality of animation , am i guessing right ?

[Vince Becquiot]

You should export at 720×480 @ 1.2.

If it is set to square pixel, or if you can change that setting to 1.2, then you need to change the resolution to 854×480. Any other setting will result in stretching on import. Whichever you pick, make sure it’s interpreted the same way in premiere.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Awais Bilal]

ok now i got it , from my animation program i need to export my animation project in 854×480 screen resolutions and then would export final project in premiere using 720×480 @ 1.2 , it wont effect animation quality , right !?

thanks once again 🙂

[Vince Becquiot]

Right, the quality will be the same.

But it is a good idea to export at the same pixel aspect ratio as your project.

While Premiere will let you you interpret the footage, if you were to send that same footage to a FCP user you would run into problems.

Vince Becquiot

Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area

[Awais Bilal]

yes of course its a good idea but i think we dont have any pixel aspect ratio setting in Digital Pro , only have a choice of changing resolutions , however i will check again animation tool i might be wrong .

thanks