Jittery text on DVD Playback

[David Roth weiss]

[Matt Dragovits] “do I just leave the “setting” drop down at “Current Settings””

Affirmative!!! It’s now a ProRes sequence, so current settings exports without another recompression step.

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[Alexander Kallas]

[Matt Dragovits] “I exported out of AE as a 16 bit quicktime movie using animation compression at 100% quality. Once in FCP I had my timeline set with ProRes 422 HQ settings. I rendered everything out and exported as a QT movie. I then brought it into compressor and used the DVD High Quality 90 minutes setting. “

Matt, what time-line setting did you have when you imported your AE 16bit Animation codec graphics?
If you had your movie in the DV codec to begin with and you brought your AE file in before re-rendering to ProRes, you got no benefit. DV is DV, and transcoded to m2v produces the “jittery” text.
It’s not a matter of preserving text that originated via the DV codec, sure it will always look better on the Mac in 8-bit uncompressed or ProRes. But only on the Mac. You are delivering in DVD, so the question is text in m2v.
Better to do the text in the 8-bit uncompressed or ProRes time-line, and go to m2v from there.

Cheers
Alexander

[David Roth weiss]

[Alexander Kallas] “If you had your movie in the DV codec to begin with and you brought your AE file in before re-rendering to ProRes, you got no benefit. “

He clearly said that he created it in the animation codec. And, if he adds a graphic with the animation codec to a DV timeline, changes the compressor to ProRes, then re-renders that timeline, he absolutely does get the full benefit of ProRes, with pristine graphics.

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David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

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[Alexander Kallas]

[David Roth Weiss] “He clearly said that he created it in the animation codec. And, if he adds a graphic with the animation codec to a DV timeline, changes the compressor to ProRes, then re-renders that timeline, he absolutely does get the full benefit of ProRes, with pristine graphics.
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Correct, but only if he did not render the imported text in DV before changing it all to ProRes. I suspect he may have rendered in DV first, why else the problem?

Cheers
Alexander

[Alexander Kallas]

[Alexander Kallas] “[David Roth Weiss] “He clearly said that he created it in the animation codec. And, if he adds a graphic with the animation codec to a DV timeline, changes the compressor to ProRes, then re-renders that timeline, he absolutely does get the full benefit of ProRes, with pristine graphics.
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Correct, but only if he did not render the imported text in DV before changing it all to ProRes. I suspect he may have rendered in DV first, why else the problem?
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David, assuming the above is the case, can it be recovered, ie improved, by first trashing all the render files, and then re-render in ProRes?

Cheers
Alexander