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MPEG-2 problems in AE CS4 vs CS3
This is an odd one. I produce video that goes on a large LED screen which is 20:33 format (320×528 pixels); the player uses MPEG2. All was well with the settings I used in CS3:
I’ve copied these exact settings to CS4 –
*BUT*
anything rendered from CS4 using these settings produces a yellow bar across the top of the screen, *only* when playing back on the 20:33 screen. (In other words, it’s fine when viewed on the PC, but the player seems to be misinterpreting it.) This bar is about 80px high and looks like a bright yellow solid on Multiply mode, i.e. it tints everything yellow… at first we thought it was a screen fault, but it only happens on content I’ve produced using CS4 – all the CS3 stuff is fine.So I guess my question is: has the MPEG2 codec changed at all (is that even possible?) between CS3 and CS4? Is there any plausible explanation for this weird behaviour? And what settings could I change in CS4 that might stop it happening?
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Probably not the advice you want to hear, but I wouldn’t render your MPEG files out of AE. I would render them to Animation Codec as your master file, and then use a third-party application to create your distribution files.
There are a lot of good conversion apps that are cost effective or free. Super © is free and works very well, and apps like tmpgenc xpress work very well but cost around $99.
Brendan Coots
Splitvision Digital
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Ah, good idea – thanks. Still puzzled why they’d work from CS3 but not CS4. I’ve rendered out a couple of tests with Procoder and so I’ll see if they work.
Cheers
Nick
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