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Using still images. Horrible edges in places when on DVD.
Hi,
I’m not entirely sure whether this should be posted in this forum, Adobe After Effects Forum or even in Adobe Encore. I’ll try here though.
I’ve created an 8 minute long film in PAL Widescreen format (progressive) and the first minute or so of the film uses still images and they zoom in quite slowly. They’re very high resolution and I created this section with transitions in After Effects which was then imported to Premiere.
On my TV (output through a Black Magic Intensity Pro card HDMI) everything is fine whilst working in Premiere. However, when I export to Encore and create a DVD, some of the photos have horrible flicker/combing on some edges (picture frames in background, the rim of a pair of glasses etc.).
I’m using the highest quality settings in Encore for transcoding but cannot seem to get rid of this. I’m playing back on good quality DVD players/TVs but it’s the same everywhere I test it.
Should I be doing something with the initial composition in After Effects, or is it purely down to transcoding?
I’d appreciate any help with fixing this!
Thanks
Miles -
4 Replies
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Is your Encore transcoding preset progressive as well?
Try exporting from Premiere at 7.85 Mb/s CBR progressive Mpeg2 DVD.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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Thanks. That has made a big difference. I’ve never used CBR before, always VBR. Is that a recommended setting of 7.85mb/s for general use when creating DVDs then?
Thanks again.
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CBR at 7.5 is recommended when you don’t need VBR, meaning anything under one hour.
VBR would not make any difference since you are already using the maximum bit rate throughout the encode.
You’ll also save quite a bit of render time over 2 pass VBR.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
I see. Well this is an 8 minute section of a project destined to be around 40 minutes long so I’ll do my final DVD burn with these settings then. It’s to be played on standard commercial DVD players.
Once again, thank you for the helpful advice.
Miles
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