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Best format to export an AE file for DVD
Hello wise ones. I’m pretty new to AE, so please forgive my ignorance.
What is the best format to export a project from AE to be imported into DVD studio pro that will yeild the best quality picture? I’m actually doing the burning for a client who has a project in AE and just needs it burned to DVD, and he said that perhaps he could just export it as a regular avi file. I would like to give him a good quality dvd, so I figure that the file format and rate you export it at would greatly affect the quality. I would most appreciate any suggestions as I’m new to all this.Thank you for any help,
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You should export a quicktime movie with the animation codec. This is uncompressed, and no artifacts are being introduced. It should be the full frame rate of your final piece, whatever that may be. The question for the DVD is whether it is a data DVD (ie-just a file on a disc) or and authored DVD-Video, which would need the animation file turned into an MPEG-2. You just need to figure out if this is for someone to view on a DVD player or just someone on a computer is grabbing the file off the disc.
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Hello Matt,
Thank you very much for your input 🙂 It will definitely be animation for viewing off a dvd versus data storage. I appreciate the response… it will more than help us out.
Thank you 🙂
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Matt,
I see where I export it as a quicktime file with the animation codec and all, but how do I save it as an MPEG-2 file… it looks like in AE I’m given the option of MPEG-4, but not MPEG-2. Is this something I do in DVD studio pro?
Thanks,
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Well you want to transcode your Quicktime file using Compressor that came with DVD Studio Pro. That will give you the mpeg2 file you are looking for.
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Ah, yes… that works nicely. Thanks for the help, Brian 🙂
–April
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