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best codex ?
I work mainly with dv video and when making a movie from AE7 or AE8 which codex is the best to out put with when I trying to get the best quality whether I’m going back to dv beta or DVD?
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“Codec”, or “codecs”, not “codex“. 🙂
When you expect to recompress your AE output to MPEG-2 for DVD, it should be first rendered to a lossless codec such as Animation, or 8-bit (or 10-bit) uncompressed, then sent to a compression app such as Squeeze or Compressor. However, some choose to render straight to MPEG-2 in AE. Do some tests to make your own choice.
However, if you are taking that render into a DV timeline in your editing app, then render to DV. Your editing app will have to render the AE output to DV anyway to make it fit the codec of the DV timeline.
If you are going to Beta, you need to render to the codec of whatever system will be outputting to Beta. This could be Blackmagic, Avid or AJA, for instance. If you don’t have access to those codecs, render to Animation.
Anybody else?
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thanks for the quick reply –
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