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  • Rendering a targa Composition

    Posted by Raul Lingesparan on April 15, 2008 at 9:33 pm

    Hello,
    Really hope you Pros can help me.

    I’m working on an animation and rendered individual Targa frames that need to be composited and made into a DVD.
    What format should it be set on?
    I’m using AE7 and can’t find the Mpeg2 format for the output in AE,is this the best setting for a DVD output?
    Is there any other settings that can make the output quality better.
    I’m getting the Best results when i render as .MOV file but losing quality when I burn it to DVD.
    Please help if you know the answer.

    I will forever be in your dept,

    Raul

    Raul Lingesparan replied 18 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Steve Roberts

    April 15, 2008 at 10:25 pm

    Here are the three stages to DVD:

    1. high-quality video from AE or an NLE
    2. MPEG-2 video compressed from video #1
    3. authored, burned DVD, incorporating video #2

    #1 may be uncompressed AVI, Quicktime Animation, 8-bit uncompressed, Photo-JPEG, whatever — but not MPEG-2, DV (if you can help it), MPEG-4, and so on.

    #2 may be created by recompressing #1 in AE or something like Compressor or Squeeze. I like Compressor nowadays.

    #3 may be created with EncoreDVD, DVDStudio Pro and so on. These apps author the DVD, and some also create #2 at the same time, though not as well as the apps mentioned above.

    Does that make sense?

  • Raul Lingesparan

    April 16, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    Hey Steve,

    Thanks a lot, Appreciate the tips.
    Also the quick reply, worked great!!!!

    Raul

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