Output Rendering

[Steve Roberts]

Ignore the screen. What device will play the animation?
– hard drive?
– DVD?
– other?

[Kate Koyama]

Hmm… I’m guessing they’ll want a DVD, and also they’ll want to be able to hoop up their laptop to the screen.

What would be the difference for those 3 devices??

[Kate Koyama]

Say what would be the output for:

– playing the video from a laptop that is hooked to the tv screen

– playing the video from a burned DVD

– other options???

[Steve Roberts]

We’re talking about output modules, since your Render Settings would be Best.

[Kate Koyama] “Say what would be the output for:

– playing the video from a laptop that is hooked to the tv screen”

Try Quicktime Photo-JPEG, or H.264.

“- playing the video from a burned DVD”

If you’re NTSC (not PAL) your movie must be 720×480 (probably 16:9 widescreen), 23.976 or 29.97 fps. Render from AE to a high-quality codec such as Animation, then compress to MPEG-2 using something like Compressor or a DVD-authoring app. You then have to author the DVD so it plays in a way that suits the presentation. Imagine a non-technical person inserting the DVD into the drive, then what happens?

“- other options???”

I’d go with DVD. Don’t forget to test the final product.

[Kate Koyama]

Thanks for the posts!! I have one last question… so if the video is played from a laptop that is hooked up to the HD tv screen… will the composition size matter???

because today I was making a composition that is 720 by 480 and I rendered as a quick time movie, when I played it (full screen) on my computer monitor (27 inches) the video looked really pixelated…is there anyway to fix this??

[Steve Roberts]

If it’s playing from a hard drive, and the monitor is 1920×1080 (HD), try making the comp (and render) 1920×1080. Then compress it (try h.264) and play it back from the hard drive. If it stutters, lower the data rate until it plays smoothly.

The pixellation could be a combination of two things: low quality/data rate, or the enlargement (scaling up) of the video. If it were 720×480 and your desktop were 1920×1080, then it’s being scaled up. You can’t avoid the scaling up with DVD, since it has to be 720×480. However, if you’re playing from the hard drive, try 1920×1080 as I suggested, and the scaling up won’t be a concern.

[Kate Koyama]

I see… so data….

I don;t have to import images at 300dpi right???? all my images are 72 dpi RGB (they are 72 dpi but large)

I

[Kate Koyama]

OK so from what I’ve been reading the best way is to set my animation in a 720 x 480 ratio (as NTSC) with a pixel ration of ???? (D1/DV NTSC (0.91) or 1.21????

frame rate of 29.97 frame per second??

Then when I render the output should be set in as a H.264 Blu ray or MPEG DVD??

Should the compression still be animation?

Sorry to be asking so many questions, but I really never went deeper into rendering…

[Kate Koyama]

what pixel ration does the bluray disc take?

I just want to make sure the clients will be able to watch a non pixelated movie..

[Steve Roberts]

So if the client can play a Blu-Ray disc, work and render at 1920×1080 (square pixels), encode to the appropriate codec for Blu-Ray, make the disc and test it.

If they can’t play a Blu-Ray disc, you have to go with DVD, which is 720×480.