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Rendering out Animation for Adobe Premeire Pro Which Codec best?
Hello,
We have a Film Resolution Animation which is in After Effects I am compressing down to a smaller Framsize of 720×576 PAL I am using Quicktime Photos JPEG 100%.
Is this the best format if I want to then re-open this in After Effects to perhaps do so additonal compositing at the PAL size as opposed to Converting into a Microsoft DV AVI?
I mean am I ganing anything using photo JPEG or should I use Microsoft DV AVI? I then will put into Encore DVD and add my voice oevrs and subtitling tracks.
Thanks,
LEO 🙂
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4 Replies
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Do not encode to DV as an intermediate codec. It is lossy and will degrade the image. It is for acquisition.
Photo-JPEG is fine. In fact, you can even try it at 94%, which is the first place the slider stops (usually) short of 100%.
Many people also use the Animation codec for highest quality, but it creates large files.
As I said, do not encode to DV as an intermediate codec.
Steve
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Hello Steve,
Thanks for the tip! Yes I was thinking I am degrading the image with multiple compressions to a already compressed 5-1 ratio.
I was just notr sure which would be the best codec to use. Yeah I will give it a go at 95% for photo Jpeg. Could I then import into Encore then do a Transode ok with the Photo Jpeg?
Thanks,
Leo 🙂
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Sorry, I don’t know Encore. Why don’t you try a test?
Steve
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Hello Steve,
I have nearly finished rendering out to Photo JPEG taken about 2 1/2 hours so far as was Cineon Size then I down converted to 720 76 Photo Jpeg.
I will try and let you know how it comes out.
-Leo 🙂
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