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Out of AE CS4 for idvd best settings
Hi chaps, I don’t have Compressor but have QT Pro and could afford to spend a little money on some compression software (but not as much as Final Cut) … I would just like to make a dvd of an AE project once in a while but get the best quality that I can – I’ve tried rendering out lossless from AE and letting idvd do it and it’s rubbish, I know idvd is pretty poor but I can burn in Toast which I’ve heard is little better than idvd – any help please … Roger
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Roger –
If you have the CS4 suite, I would suggest you try outputting directly from the Premiere timeline. I had been jumping through hoops trying to get a DVD burned from Nero (have to create the .vob file, etc., pain in the neck).
All I ending up doing was exporting a QT file (M-JPEG-A, highest quality on the slider, 44.1Khz audio, lower field first – this was for NTSC). I dropped the clip onto the Premiere timeline and did an “export to DVD”, popped the blank DVD-R into the drive, and in about 15 minutes (the file was about 250GB – 4 minutes run time) I had a final DVD that worked on my computer, my Sony DVD player, and a couple of other people’s DVD players (in other words, it seems standard enough to play on anything). Good luck!
Joe Bourke
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it’s been a while since i used idvd, but i have used it to burn animations to dvd in the past and i didn’t have any problem…
i’m pretty sure that i found that i needed to render things out using a dv preset in ae, so the frame size needed to be 720×480, 29.97 fps (you may be able to do 24p with the newer idvd, but i don’t know). i can’t remember what the audio settings were. i know i rendered as lossless mov and imported into idvd.
idvd will do the mpeg2 encoding, it has to, it’s the standard for dvds… you just won’t have much control over the bit rate, but really i don’t remember seeing any noticeable artifacts….
Kevin Camp
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Jolly good of you chaps, plenty of food for thought and experimentation there. Have good weekends Roger
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