Best way of exporting a text heavy movie

[Kevin Camp]

need to know a few more specifics…. what aren’t you happy with? edges? banding? movement? contrast/levels?

or was it a difference in viewing on tv versus computer monitor?

a basic workflow to go from ae to dvd would be to render out of ae to lossless animation codec or uncompressed, take it to a compression utility (like compressor or sorenson) for mpeg-2 encoding, then to dvd application.

are you using premiere for mpeg-2 encoding? if so, you maybe compressing your movie twice, once for what your settings are in premiere (like for dv) and then again for mpeg-2. if you need to go to premiere, maybe you can set premiere to work with mpeg-2, so when your render is imported, it will be converted to compressed only once, to mpeg-2.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Craig Wetherall]

Thanks for the advice.

This is how I have done things so far.

-Export video with text as uncompressed avi, import to premiere to tweak editing, export from premiere (CS3) into Encore with it’s default settings.

A couple of problems I may have hit by reading a bit further into what I dont like could be:

-I need to make the text a touch bigger. I have checked it on a few TVs. Most it looks ok on by an old widescreen it is quite difficult to read.

-The text is white and needs to be “dulled” slightly for TVs. It’s white text (it’s white text on dark images.

I’ve never tried putting something on DVD before so I’m feeling along as I go.

The text does look better a couple of points larger and I think will do for this job.