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Whats the best quality, but quickest to render setting for saving out?
hi there,
basically i need to get a work in progress copy to a client pretty soon as i was just wondering if anyone could recommend the best setting for decent quality but not taking ages to render out as i dont have that much time!
thanks
dan
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9 Replies
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If it is just or review
Render Half Size at half Quality and Skip Every other Frame
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hmmm well its gonna be used at a test screening in a cinema so i think i need to keep the frame rate up. what about the format of saving it, should it be avi, or quicktime mov, and then what about the compression modes? to keep size down preferably as well
cheers
dan -
what type of screening, how will it be projected, is it going to dvd, playing off a computer what?
this kind of info will change what you can do
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hey zander,
well the work is in HD res (1920×1080) but the screening only needs to be at DV quality as it will be screened off a DVCAM tape…….. what do you recommend? I have to give to people who will then put it into avid and cut it in with other stuff…then export to dvcam tape.
cheers
dan
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nice one thanks alot dave, so if i do as you say and save out as a dv codec do you think the files will be small enough to upload on to an ftp? its gonna be around 1 minute of animation all together….need to work out whether im gonna be uploading or needing a courier.
cheers
dan
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Like anything on the Web, it depends a lot on the connections…the server and the downloader. You can start off with DV, and if it’s taking too long, you can try a better compressed codec.
Cheers,
Todd at UCSB
Television Production -
I would render at 1/3 resolution, 1/3 frame size (1920×1080 -> 640×360) at full frame rate, lossless and then import this render back into AE, make sure the footage is interpreted as square pixel, place it in an NTSC DV comp and lay it over a black solid for letterboxing. I would render this final comp out at Lossless if you have the disk space.
Darby Edelen
Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA -
[Dave LaRonde] ” Drop the comp-in-progress onto the make comp icon at the bottom of the project window.
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one final thing, since its going to an avid, you might want to encode as an avid dv file, to avoid further compression by avid.
you can download the avid codecs here. you just need the ‘le’ codecs.
after installing, you can choose the avid dv codec as a quicktime option in the output module.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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