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Final Cut Pro Animation DVD Resolution Problems
I created all my 640X480 animation footage in after effects and rendered them out as individual quicktimes… al with h.264 compression.
I next assembled it all into FCP for editing…
I used compressor to output… I used best quality DVD settings (90 minutes) mpg 2 and then I tried outputting to DVD and it looks like crap.
How can I maintain the good quality of my initial renders?
Any help would be appreciated.
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[Aharon Charnov] “I created all my 640X480 animation footage in after effects and rendered them out as individual quicktimes… al with h.264 compression.”
Your problem was choosing to compress to h.264 out of After Effects h.264 is a compressed delivery medium, typically for Web distribution, not mastering, which is what you’re doing when you outputting a “master file” for further processing. On top of that, you then encoded to MPEG2 for your DVD, which is approximately 25 to 1 compression.
Your render or master file from After Effects should be as pristine as possible, preferably either uncompressed 8-bit or ProRes, then use that in Compressor to encode for your DVD.
Does that make sense?
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Yeah… that makes 100% sense. I could kick myself. Sigh… gotta go re-render the whole load…. Thank god for replace footage. Thanks for your quick answer I’ll let you know if I get better results.
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