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Either to large or to small…
I have recently downloaded After Effects and made a few promo ads for my Video Rental business. Since then I have been trying to work the promo ads into our “promo pack” (a dvd filled with the newest release trailers and promo ads). However it seems that when I export them to .avi (using WMM) they lose a lot of their resolution and smoothness. I then tried the Render Que-something and found that it kept a high resolution and smoothness. One problem though, for a 12 second promo clip it saved at 355mbs. Limited to a 4.7gb dvd with 2-3gbs used for HD trailers that doesn’t allow many promo ads. About the most space I can afford on my dvd is roughly 175mbs per promo. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks in advance!
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Joshua Duncan -
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Is this DVD intended for use in a set top DVD player or in a computer? If the latter then you could use almost any codec you want. However, although newer codecs often give fantastic results at low file sizes they are not as compatible as some of the old standards. You should look at an option like Sorenson Squeeze or Canopus ProCoder (Compressor from Apple is another option, but only available as part of the Final Cut Studio) to encode your files.
From your description it doesn’t sound like it’s intended for a set top DVD player. If it is then I think you’ll want to repost with more specifics.
Darby Edelen
DVD Menu Artist
Left Coast Digital
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Yes these dvds are going to be used for regular dvd players, not computers. I do not have any codec or burning programs except for the stock progs that came with Vista. Now I have a codec reader to be able to see some of these videos in WMP, but no kind of codec program to shrink the video. Here are some of the resources I have avaliable:
Windows Vista
4.7gb DvDs
Windows Movie Maker
Windows DvD Maker
Adobe Premier Pro Cs3
Adobe Photoshop Cs3
Adobe After Effects Cs3
Windows Media Player 10+
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The video you rendered out of AE is merely your source file. Your DVD authoring app will automatically convert that video into the MPEG2 format which will reduce its size substantially, while maintaining good quality.
In the end, that video will probably be 50-100MB on-disc after your app converts it.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
http://www.splitvisiondigital.com
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