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render settings
What is the best render settings for creating an animation that will be played off a DVD on to a computer monitor.
Currently I am using lower field rendering and the DV/DVCPRO-NTSC compression type interlaced. I am getting some “noise” around my type but I think that maybe because of unsafe colors.
does anyone have an better results with other render settings. thanks for your help
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5 Replies
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Both DVD and DV/DVCPRO in NTSC-land are 720×480 pixels (non-square). Therefore, the size — and framerate of 29.97 — are correct for a video DVD. However if you render with DV/DVCPRO you will be compressing the video in a different way than MPEG2 compression. Thus you are better off to use a lossless (or virtually lossless) codec like Animation (or MotionJPG) set to best quality. As far as I understand it, these compressed-at-a-higher-quality movies have a better chance of good MPEG2 compression for your DVD.
-ben
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Off a DVD? I’m assuming you mean that the animation will be played using the computer’s DVD-playing utility, as you’d play a commercial DVD movie.
Those DVD movies are compressed to the MPEG-2 codec before the DVD is authored, then burned. The quality of the source for the MPEG-2 encoding should be as high as possible — Quicktime Animation codec or uncompressed AVI — because the MPEG-2 encoding will degrade the video, and you don’t want to degrade DV (ugh) any further.
To compress the Animation/uncompressed movie to MPEG-2 you should use an app such as Compressor, Cleaner or ProCoder. Adobe’s Encore might be able to do it.
(Keep in mind that if your original source is shot DV footage, compressing it to Animation won’t make it look any better, so you can just go from DV to MPEG-2.)
Try posting on the COW DVD forum for more info.
Steve
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Well, if this is an animation with no video footage, and if the DVD will only be viewed on a computer monitor, then you don’t need to field render (just set it to “Off”).
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Ah, yes — correct.
Actually, regardless of the output, you never have to render fields. It’s an aesthetic choice, generally for the appearance of smoother motion, but I avoid it if possible. However, if you do render fields, you need to choose the correct field order for your hardware. DV is lower first, but some codecs (and hardware) are upper first.
Steve
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Listen to Ben, he knows what he is talking about. The man is an After Effects Master!
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