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Losing sharpness going from AE to dvd
I am producing a 3 minute 16:9 (wide) promo video. I have a completed After Effects project, which looks great when rendered to quicktime and viewed on the computer. Sharp, clear, beautiful.
I need to have it as a looping dvd, for use at a trade show. To achieve that, I rendered a lossless Quicktime file from After Effects, which was more than 10 Gig. heavy. I then used that file in iDvd to create a dvd, but the quality is terrible – not sharp, and has artifacts, especially noticable when viewed on a 40″ plasma monitor.
What am I doing wrong?
Tam P.
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2 Replies
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iDVD compressed your video to the MPEG-2 format, which is necessary for DVD. However, not all MPEG-2 compression is the same. I recommend you compress in Apple’s Compressor using one of the High Quality settings, then import that file into iDVD if you can. I use DVD Studio Pro, not iDVD by the way.
At any rate, this is a DVD authoring question. If you need more info, you should check out the DVD Authoring COW.
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Thanks for your input, and I’ll check out the other forum. I’m going to try your method.
Thanks again,
Tam
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