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newbie question: Best quality DVD export from AE?
Hi,
I have a six minute stop-motion piece in AE with mixed sources (mostly huge photoshop files, some .avi video) at 1280 x 916 px (I know — weird). It renders to about 30G with the animation codec.
What is the absolute best way to get this on to a DVD with minimal loss of quality? I have cs4, including Encore DVD, as well as QT Pro, but I don’t have Compressor (and don’t want to spend a grand on Final Cut to get it).
Thanks so much for any tips you can provide.
-mike
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3 Replies
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Adobe Media Encoder will provide mpeg2 compression for DVD. Just open teh AE project you want to render in it and render out using one of he DVD presets.
Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
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Thanks Ted,
I’ve heard that the DVD encoding (and compression in general) is poor in AE and that you are better off rendering to animation and using another tool for compression/encoding. Is this your impression as well? Quality is very important for this footage as there is a lot of fine detail.
-mike
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[mike cantor] “Quality is very important for this footage as there is a lot of fine detail.”
Since you mentioned FCP, I assume you’re on a Mac. BitVice is my favorite standard-def MPEG2 compression application, and I use it for nearly all my DVDs. There’s a demo if you’d like to compare it with AME.
Walter Soyka
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