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Quality of Rendering?
Hey,
I am creating a composition with a mixture of Illustrator files, Quicktime movies, and photoshop files. I exported the beginning it using the render que and it looked great. I worked on it more and exported it again once it was close to being done and it now looks a little fuzzy and not neary as good. To the best of my knowledge I didn’t change anything?
I exported it as a Quicktime movie, NTSC DV, but will eventually need to export it as a MPEG-2 to put it on a DVD.
Any help in exporting it so it looks as crisp as possible???
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4 Replies
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Well, what settings did you use for the two renders? You can go back to the render queue and drop down the details.
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Well I am almost positive I used the same setting I did when it looked great. That is where my confusion is?
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Are you recompressing the footage with your final render? If you rendered out a movie with the DV codec, then used that movie back in AE, then made a final render with the same file, that won’t look so good.
Usually my workflow is that I keep the ‘movie’ as uncompress as possible until the final encoding. So if I was you, I’d skip the DV export and instead render out either as uncompressed or as animation codec. Then encode to MPEG from that file. The DV codec is a horrible codec and will loss a lot of infomation. So if your MPEG encoding is looking at a higher quality movie, then it will have a higher quality results.
Good Luck,
Todd at UCSB
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One thing to check if your Illustrator files are showing up soft in the render, is that you have Continuous Rasterisation switched ON for those layers, particularly if the file resides inside a pre-comp. This will force AE to look at the original vector graphic from the Illustrator file when rendering, making it sharper.
Enzo Tedeschi
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Sydney, Australia
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