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MPEG-2 and After Effects…?
A documentary i’m working on features a title scroll with big RED text in it. As an .avi file, the red fonts looked crappy, but when i export as mpeg-2 (.m2v) it looks great.. and as it is going to end up on a dvd anyway, mpeg-2 is fine with me.
But After Effects does not allow me to import mpeg-2. Does this mean i should accept crappy texts if i’m to use AE???
All i really wanted to try was to use a ‘grainy old film’-type of effect just to flavor up the title section. Nothing really essential, but it still bugs me.
Help would be much appreciated!
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2 Replies
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mpeg2 isn’t a useable edit format, since it doesn’t contain individual frames, just interpolated frames.
But it seems you’ve answered your own question. Since the red looks good as mpeg2, and you’re exporting to mpeg2 when you’re done, then just use the crappy red, knowing it will look good when exported to mpeg2 when you’re done.
Obviously the mpeg2 encoding process is limiting the chroma or brightness in some way, fixing the red color that is out of spec. You could hook up some scopes and figure out just what the issue is with the red.
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What exactly do you mean by “crappy’? Could it be that the .avi looks bad because you’re looking at it’s fields, then you’re rendering out of AE without fields?
Just curious.
Jon
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