rendering size

[Steve Roberts]

You can take the 16GB file, compress to the MPEG-2 codec using Compressor, Squeeze, or whatever you use to author the DVD. Then you burn that.

It will fit, as long as you do the necessary step of compressing to MPEG-2.

[Albert Lumanas]

Sir, what type of compressor do you recommend, thank you once again

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

There area few issues here…

when you say “fit on DVD” do you mean for storage or to play on a DVD player (home theater)?

If you mean to play on a DVD player, then you have a few options. Most DVD authoring programs, upon burning, will convert your uncompressed video to a format (mpeg-2) that will play in a DVD player.

As Steve mentioned, A better option might be to use a video compression program like sorenson squeeze or Apple compressor to do it – you have more control over quality, and even the default settings will probably give you better results than your DVD authoring program.

But if you question is more an issue of keeping a quicktime on a DVD for storage or delivery purposes, then you have 2 options here that I can think of:

1) Lower the quicktime quality settings in your Output Module’s Format options area, or change the codec from Animation Compression to PhotoJpeg and play with the quality settings (I assume you’re using the default quicktime Animation compression, but I could be wrong).

Or break the file up during a render, by going into your Preferences (in the Output settings) and set the “Segment Movie Files Option to no more than 4.4 GB. This will cause AE break up the quicktime mvie into several 4.4GB segments as it renders. Then you can store each segment on their own DVD.

I’d suggest you render out a separate audio file as well to avoid audio popping when you reconnect the video in your editor.

Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
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[Albert Lumanas]

yes sir, i used the default setting for quick time which is animation so i got this 16 GB size. i will try to render again using the settings you proposed. thank you so very much

[Aurelio Toral]

How about those of us who just want to make home video productions, something to leave to our kids, but better than just a pile of unedited bundle of miniclips of family trips and gatherings? What is the recommendation for capturing the video from our camcorder into our PC for editing and compositing intentions? And what about for that pre’dvd stage of the process? That step when we have the video (image and sound) the way we want it but it is just one scene of the final dvd movie we want to make? What format would you recommend so the file is not humongeous but it does not lose quality once we transfer them into dvd? I use Premiere for editing, AE for compositing and effects )that I normally take back to Premiere for final editing, and normaly burn my dvd using nero. My PC is a Dual Core 1.6, 1.5GB RAM, NVIDIA 512 video card, running XP. I use Omega external HDD for storage.

[Albert Lumanas]

Dear Sir:

I rendered using the settings that you proposed, i used PhotoJpg ang it came to 8.6 GB. I tried to import this file to Encore as a timeline and transcode to NTSC progressive high quality 7MB VBR2 Pass and it fit on a single DVD.

Now my question sir, when i played to a DVD player, some pixelation are coming out to the clip. is this the cause of my transcoding to a smaller file?

Thank you so much

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

DVD video is compressed video and because of that may always have bad compression artifacts.

Again, what software you use to compress the video will make a huge difference.

The only way to know for sure though is to do some testing:

try using uncompressed video and letting your DVD program compress it

Use a compression program like Sorenson Squeeze or Compressor to compress your video and then put it on DVD.

Remember the large video files are only temporary until the files are put on DVD.

Aharon Rabinowitz
Email: arabinowitz (AT) yahoo (DOT) com
All Bets Are Off Productions, Inc.
Creative Cow After Effect Podcast
Internet Killed the Video Star: A Guide to Creating Video for the Web

[Albert Lumanas]

again, thank you so much sir for your support. i import my mov file to encore and i transcode the mov file to ntsc progressive as one option of the encore. when finished burning, there were pixilation in the clip.

thank you once again