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Image Prep / Comp Settings / Output Settings
Dear Creative Cow friends,
I haven’t work with AE in 6 years. Before that I wasn’t a pro either and just built small animations for the internet.
Searched all forums for the answer to my problem – could not find it. I apologize if I am repeating what has been questioned before.My problem is:
Need to make a simple logo animation (almost as simple as a slide show) to be burned to a DVD. This will be playing from the DVD (PAL) to a 42” flat screen TV.
Animation consists of 2d Graphics made in Freehand, exported as .JPGs.
I am Using Adobe After Effects 6.5.
I am planning to output as .AVI and then use Cyberlink Power Director to Produce the DVD (also never did it).3 Questions:
1 – What size should my graphics be? – 1024px X 576px? (72dpi RGB – off course)
2 – What Composition settings should I use in AE? (I keep getting black bars on sides or top/bottom + distorted graphics on screen)
3 – What settings should I chose to Output it in the render queue?I know it’s a stretch, but if you guys could help me out I would be very thankful and I promise to Pay It Forward ; )
Thanks,
Ze Luis – PORTUGAL -
4 Replies
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Hi there,
If you’re going to be writing to a PAL DVD, you’ll need to use one of two comp settings: PAL DV or PAL DV widescreen. These are the formats that DVD supports. They are non-square pixel formats, so unless you toggle on the pixel aspect ratio correction switch (at the bottom of the composition panel in AE7+, I’m not sure about 6.5 as I’ve never used it) the logo will look horizontally squashed (it will look fine when you render it, whether you toggle the switch or not).
You may have to live with the black bars (letter/pillar boxing) if your logo doesn’t fit the screen.
Output with no compression. Your DVD software will have to transcode the video from AVI anyway, so if you compress from AE you’ll be compressing twice.
Hope this helps,
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysFX -
Thank you Simon!
Regarding the size of my media: I should keep it 1024px X 576px to keep the 19:6 proportion, right?
I did try what you recomend for the comp settings before but what got me confused was the horizontal squashing of the image.
I am still a bit confused because the “PAL D1/DV Widescreen” preset gives me a comp size of 720px X 576px and the “lock aspect ratio” button says it will lock it with 5:4 aspect ratio, while the PIXEL ASPECT RATIO is set by default to “D1/DV PAL Widescreen” with a Frame Aspect Ratio of 16:9.
Is this correct? Well I hope so. Gonna try it.
Thanks again,
Zé Luís -
I know 1024×576 looks correct in AE, but DVD only supports 720×576. That’s the resolution you want.
The ratio of 720×576 is 5:4, as you’ve seen, but the SCREEN aspect ratio will be 16:9 (as long as you select DV widescreen and not standard DV), because the pixels are wider than they are tall (they’re non-square).
Simon Bonner
youtube.com/simonsaysFX -
Ok.
I think I finnaly understand it.
Thank You very much Simon,
I will try that and finish this “stupid” animation ;^)Peace
Zé Luís
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