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Rendering for DVD?
I’m doing my first surf video with a lot of AE. My friend edited all the footage and gave each section to me as DV files. He’s already taken some of the sections I rendered as MOVs, burnt them to a DVD and it works good on a TV. I’m just curious if I should be rendering this another way? Maybe for better quality? I’ve heard maybe MPEG2, MPEG2-DVD? Also is it correct for me to have my Comp Preset set to NTSC DV, and the Pixel Aspect Ratio set to D1/DV NTSC(0.9).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Garret
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4 Replies
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For optimal quality when burning to a DVD, MPEG-2 is the way to go.
I’ve been using MPEG as compared to the other formats myself and it looks great.I’ll make some great things with this
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MPEG-2 is the format of DVD – all video that’s going on a TV watchable DVD gets transcoded to MPEG-2 at some point, either by your editing software, AE or your DVD software.
However, some programmes do a better job than others. AE is not the best programme for compressing your video. What I would advise you to do is render out your videos from AE at as high a quality as possible (e.g. QT anim / photo jpeg, lossless avi) and have your DVD programme (e.g. Encore) do the transcoding to MPEG for you.
You’ll end up with huge files – probably many GBs – and you won’t be able to play them without your computer slowing down, but since you don’t actually NEED to watch them until they’re on the DVD, that’s not a biggie. But you may need to give the files to your friend on a removable hard drive rather than uploading them to the web / burning them to a DVD-ROM, which you could probably get away with if you were compressing ahead of time.
Simon Bonner
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Thanks guys… so starting by rendering out as an AVI is better than a MOV? I did an MPEG2 test last night, my first ever haha. So it breaks it down into separate files yeah? And then I put those together in Encore? Or if I render them out in AE as AVIs I then have Encore transcode them to MPEG2?
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[Simon Bonner] “However, some programmes do a better job than others. AE is not the best programme for compressing your video. What I would advise you to do is render out your videos from AE at as high a quality as possible (e.g. QT anim / photo jpeg, lossless avi) and have your DVD programme (e.g. Encore) do the transcoding to MPEG for you.”
I’m fairly sure that Encore and AE use the same MPEG-2 encoder.
Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA
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