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Rendering Quality Q’s (Codec)
I have been doing lots of rendering tests, and this is my problem. I render out a 4 minute video from vegas under NTSC DV and its avi format, no compression, and the quality is very good, and its about 400MB, now i put it into AE and do some color correction, then when i render it, the quality isnt as good, i used wmv. codec, mpeg2, divx, xvid, i dont know but they all Dont have that quality as i rendered from vegas. Or maybe im doing something wrong. Any good codecs i can use to have the same quality or is there a specific way to do it?
Thanks a lot
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To have no loss in quality, you need to render uncompressed or lossless (Quicktime, animation codec).
All the other codecs you mentioned are very lossy and reduce quality. They are designed to play well at the expense of quality. It’s a tradeoff, as high quality generally means high data rate which limits the systems on which the video can play back.
What will happen to the file you are rendering out of AE?
– web playback?
– hard drive playback?
– eventual compression to MPEG-2 for DVD?
– delivery to another editor?That will determine how you render and compress the file: usage. For more info on compression, you might want to check out the Compression Techniques COW forum.
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