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Creating footage on a Mac for PC
I’m creating graphics in After Effects on the Mac for a client who is working Premier Pro for Windows.
Here are the specs he gave me for his project settings (I’ve never used Premiere)Type: MPEG Movie
Image Size: 1440 x 1080
Pixel Depth: 32
Frame Rate: 29.97
Source Audio Format: 48000 Hz – compressed – Stereo
Project Audio Format: 48000 Hz – 32 bit floating point – Stereo
Average Data Rate: 3.2 MB / second
Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.3333I’ve never in my life rendered directly to MPEG from After Effects.
Is this correct? How should I set up my Output Module in AE.
I could just give him QT Animation files but they might be too big to transfer.thanks in advance
Lou … -
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Hi Lou,
I’m guessing he means H.264, and if he does mean 3.2 M “B” /s, meaning 25 Mb/s, you might get away with it, although not with any busy / fast graphics.
If he is paying a regular rate for your services, my recommendation to him would be Quicktime Animation at 100% quality. If he insists on H.264, I would do an export at 100% quality, you can’t really afford to do anything but minimum compression on Mpeg for graphics.
The pixel aspect ratio given is for HDV. I would render 1920×1080 Square instead. Premiere won’t care, but if anyone previews in Quicktime instead, they may see a weird anamorphic preview and think something is wrong.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area
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