Do certian Font’s render differently?

[Joey Foreman]

If you’re rendering out to DV/NTSC it will look bad.
If you’re not going back to tape, render out in Animation Codec

[Reggie Spires]

Like?

I am trying one with the AJA avi codec…

Reggie Spires
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[Joey Foreman]

Like what?

[Reggie Spires]

Specific codec choice under the drop down menu of the all the choices in AE

Reggie Spires
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[Joey Foreman]

um…maybe read my first response again.

[Reggie Spires]

Ok I Do not understand your first response…

Thanks for your help.. guess I need to do some reading

Reggie Spires
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[Curious Turtle]

Animation is a Quicktime codec. It’s an RGB codec that’s lossless at 100% quality setting, which is why it’s recommended as an intermediary codec.

HTH,
Ben

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[Reggie Spires]

Thanks .. Soooooooo

I need to render to Quicktime movie(set all the adjustable settings to “best”) if I am going to burn it to a DVD to view before it goes to TV?

If that is not correct please step me through it .. I have always just renered out to windows avi… Please forgive the ignorance. I am sure for many tech guys this is soo elementary. I am a far stronger on the creative side. I feel the same way when I watch a tech guy try to be creative .. lol

Reggie Spires
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[Robert Reed — needs email update]

The Windows AVI is the culprit that is causing you the artifacting onscreen.

If you render out to Quicktime’s own Animation codec, it is lossless codec and will create a file that has far fewer artifacts. This happens as it is not interpolating the resulting final pixels by trying to combine pixels together, which is what lossy codecs do. A lossless codec creates a 1-to-1 file that captures all the pixels.

Robert Reed

[Darby Edelen]

[robert reed] “The Windows AVI is the culprit that is causing you the artifacting onscreen.

If you render out to Quicktime’s own Animation codec, it is lossless codec and will create a file that has far fewer artifacts.”

Not necessarily, an AVI can be lossless. The default ‘Lossless’ option on a windows version of AE produces an AVI.

Do you see the blockiness in a lossless render out of AE or after you’ve compressed it for DVD? What are you viewing the file with? Is there a noticeable decrease in quality from AE to your rendered file (it looks good in AE before you render)? If you import the rendered file back into AE does it look better? So many questions =)

Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA