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Compression Settings / Pixel Aspect Ratio
Hi!
I have a project that I am working on for a client, and the project settings are set to NTSC DV1/Widescreen (1.2), and I rendered each clip out in After Effects as an AVI compressed to Microsoft DV. When I put it in Premiere, the picture still looks pretty good… but it seems just a little soft. When we rendered it out and put it on a DVD (MPEG2 for DVD, quality of 4, NTSC, 720×480, 29.97 drop frame, field order lower, pixel aspect widescreen 16:9, bit rate VDR 2 Pass), the picture looks much more blurry, and the text looks very choppy. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get the most crisp image?
The project is basically a talking head on one side of the screen with a white background and then text of their title and company logo on the other side of the screen (if that helps). Thanks!
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MPEG-2 is lossy, but VBR 2-pass is okay.
However, you should have started with a better codec than DV. Garbage in, garbage out. Try Uncompressed or Quicktime Animation before compressing to MPEG-2.
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