Quicktime Reference

[Mylenium]

Not sure what you are getting at and what you hope to improve by changing things on the AE end… Animation equals uncompressed quality (as the RLE compression only happens on the binary level) and it can’t get much better than that, regardless which CoDec you use. Unless you are limiting your color palette (by default it’s set to Millions+), it definitely is not the problem. You must be using some bad settings in Squeeze or choosing a wrong CoDec. To what format are you trying to convert?

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I am compressing to mpg files (separate mpv and mpa files) — these are what my company uses to put on DVDs and it has always worked in the past with Avid projects (we just send them to squeeze as a quicktime referemce file, etc) — I figured it had something to do with the fact that I was compressing it twice. I figured if there was a way to just send it to squeeze straight from after effects without compressing it first, it would work.

This codec in squeeze has also been used with motion graphics stuff from “AVID Effects”

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Although, of course I would absolutely be open to a different process if thats what it takes — I just need to end up with mpv and mpa files.

[Mylenium]

I suppose it entirely depends on the program the DVD company is actually using… If you are mangling your stuff thru AE anyways, you should consider including the MPEG-II exporter. It’s not the ultimate achievement, but it’s quite good quality-wise. Other than that I could only recommend other compression tools such as Cleaner or ProCoder, but except for you having to spend money it may not serve anything and the problems may be persistent. I suspect that something with your QT-install ain’t right or on the other hand you are trying to output to a CoDec that Squeeze can’t handle like it having an Alpha channel or something else. Not sure though.

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