Exporting to use in AE 7 ???

[Vince Becquiot]

Let’s start with the export. Your capture will still be DV, your export should be either uncompressed AVI, or Quicktime animation @ 100% (uncheck the “always recompress” option on both). You can also export as DV if you don’t have the space, but you will then lose quality as soon as effects/titles are applied in either Premiere, or After Effects.

You can either export the entire timeline, or just the part you need to apply effects to. That depends on what you are trying to do.

If you are exporting the entire timeline, you will need the space. If you export clips, you will need to work on the timing.

Titles can be made in AE without the footage. Just export as RGB Million+ colors, so that the alpha channel is included. Then you can lay then on top of your footage.

Make sure you keep your widescreen settings along the way.

For the Encore export, you can either use a bit rate calculator: https://dvd-hq.info/Calculator.html, then export Mpeg2-DVD, or again, you can export uncompressed and let Encore do those calculations for you. (I would recommend the calculator)

BTW, if you are planning on purchasing CS3, watch for the bundle options, as some will include dynamic link, which basically simplifies all of this greatly.

Cheers,

Vince

[Aanarav Sareen]

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