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best Blu Ray Compression for animation project?
I’m about to make Blu Ray disc versions of my animation works.
They are very clean-looking – and begin as computer-generated content in Flash and After Effects.
What is the best compression to use, and where should I originate it – in After Effects, or in an external program like Quicktime?My work tends to look best using Animation / best / millions
and MPEG4 best at a high bitrate.
H264 has done weird things to the colors, and MPEG at lower compression starts to create artifacts around the clean edges.Thanks.
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Personally I’d use After Effects and use either the Animation codec or probably a better choice would be the PhotoJPEG codec set to 100% quality.
Of course much will depend on what your Blu Ray authoring package or facility accepts.
Ultimately it will be converted to H.264 or VC-1 or MPEG-2
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Thanks!
the La Cie burner shipped with Toast Titanium 8; does this automatically set the codec and convert whatever format I input?
With discs so costly, I think people HAVE to set out armed with some knowledge before they start trial and error! -
“does this automatically set the codec and convert whatever format I input? “
No, you’ll need and application like compressor or Episode to create compatible files. As this is such a complex subject I suggest you invest in some training or spend some serious time with Google!
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By the way, you’ll need Toast version 9.0.2 to burn to a Blu-Ray disc. I believe version 8 only supports up to DVD-DL
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where does one find serious training in blu-ray disc burning?
I see in after effects CS3, export settings for both H264 Blu-ray and MPG2 Blu-Ray
Has anyone tried this?
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I think first of all you need to understand the difference between making video and audio files suitable for Blu-Ray and authoring the Blu-ray disc itself, just as in the world of DVD production.
Have a look here for training:
https://www.blurayvt.com/mainPortal.php?page=home
https://www.moviola.com/node/637
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many thanks!
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Animation compression is VERY difficult. Starting from the fact that very few tools can even create Blu-ray compliant video, even fewer were designed to compress animation. The only two I know of that do a good job are CinemaCraft HD and Sony Blu-code.
Max
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Blu-ray producer
New York
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