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New to AE, need HD help, please
As a video vet, I’ve only ever worked with 4:3 material. Now, at my job, I’ve been thrust into the wonderful world of AE. I am loving this program! But, I am new to HD and need some pointers, please.
I need to produce DVDs for plasma screens. Thus, they need to be widescreen. So, since the DVD spec is locked in at 720×480, do I start a new AE comp with the “NTSC DV Widescreen 720 x 480” preset and set the PAR to “D1/DV NTSC Widescreen (1.2)” before I start? Or set the PAR to be Anamorphic? Or what?
Also, if I want the total HD quality experience, I need to set the comp to be “HDTV 1920 x 1080” right? But that would need to be played back from a computer on the plasma, correct?
Any advice is appreciated at this point!
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3 Replies
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I’d use a comp set to the DV widescreen preset, then switch on Pixel Aspect Ratio correction while working, just to make things look sort of normal on the computer. When it’s time to render, I’d switch off PAR correction and render the comp.
Why do you want to work in HD? Working in HD can slow you down, due to the larger image size. I’d only do it if an HD deliverable was required, now or in the near future. Since HD DVDs won’t be on the market for a while, there’s no need to create one now. Even if the TV is HD-compatible, how would you deliver the HD material? Certainly not on a DVD.
So I’d stick to DV widescreen 720×480. Use the preset.
If I’m wrong on your HD situation, please set me straight.
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I want to push for HD to only to impress the clients, but my bosses. They’re used to widescreen DVDs. Imagine how much they’ll freak when they see plasma in all its glory!
Would a 1920×1080 source file play out of a laptop into a plasma?
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The bottleneck is the laptop’s hard drive, which might not be able to push through that kind of data.
Make a 1920×1080 movie compressed to WMV or Sorenson, set your laptop to that res, then try to play it on your laptop. If it plays smoothly, great. If not, go back to standard def.
Steve
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