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Need help converting animation file to MPEG 2 for DVD
Greetings,
I’m having trouble with an animation that was sent to me.
It was provided in animation codec, square pixels, 720 x 480.
When I convert it to NTSC, MPEG 2, it looks bad and squished.
I understand the square pixel to rectangular pixel issue, and the animator provided me with another file that looks good in the timeline (NTSC) but still encodes ugly.
Can anybody give me any hints for the best procedure for doing this?
Do I need to bring the animation into After Effects and do something there?
Should I convert to a different codec before going to Compressor?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Jack Pitzer -
2 Replies
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Hi.
It’s 4:3.
The end product is to be a DVD played on a laptop.
The animator originally provided me with a file in the animation codec, which he did in After Effects and created it with square pixels.
I imported this into FCP, and placed it in a NTSC DV 4:3 sequence and that’s where I initially noticed the squishing. If I switch the sequence settings to square pixels, it looks fine, but no matter what I do the encode from Compressor to .m2v looks bad.
Next, the animator provided me with a new file that he says was exported as NTSC, but what he really did was squish it horizontally, so it looked wider then normal when just playing the .mov file.
It looked good in the FCP timeline, but when I encoded this version it still looked bad. -
Thanks Dave!
I’ll have him do as you’ve said.
I really appreciate your help.
Jack
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