Work Flow Question

Walter Soyka
May 2, 2012 at 3:45 pm

DVD is standard definition by default. If your deliverable is to be DVD, then you can work with standard definition throughout. That said — you may want to double-confirm an SD DVD deliverable before you start.

Transcoding is probably a good idea — lightly-compressed intraframe footage is much easier to do effects work with than heavily-compressed interframe footage.

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Dave Simpson
May 2, 2012 at 6:37 pm

Hi Walter,

Thanks for the post. Yes, my contact says they will be playing it from a Standard Def DVD but they are in Marketing so I am going to try to speak with the tech at the theatre 😉 I guess if it’s going to be SD should I just use NTSC DV Widescreen for my comp? As far as rendering out would you do something lossless, then convert it to ??? for burning a DVD for the best look?

Thanks for the help.

Dave Simpson
Benjamin Ausmith
May 2, 2012 at 7:39 pm

I’ve had success exporting directly from After Effects using the DVD preset.
Dave Simpson
May 2, 2012 at 7:50 pm

Thanks Benjamin. I’ll do a small test comp and try that.

cheers

Dave Simpson

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