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Workflow and render quality settings
Hi all
I’ve been wondering about this and would like your feedback and opinions.
What is the best way to manage render quality.
For example, when creating something in AF and the comping it in FCP and them making a DVD. THere are three renders involved here. What should the compression settings and type be at each stage of the process.
Any feedback would be most appriciated.
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3 Replies
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For highest quality, render from AE to the Quicktime Animation codec. Comp in FCP, rendering to that codec again, then use Compressor to compress to MPEG-2 for DVD.
However … you won’t likely get real-time anything in FCP that way, since Anim is a high-data-rate codec. If that’s cool with you, great. If not, you should render out of AE to the best codec that will get you real-time in FCP: for example, the Decklink codec if you have that hardware, or Photo-JPEG, but that’s pushing it, IMO. Definitely not DV, unless you expect to do no rendering in FCP.
You could also do all your editing for timing in FCP in your particular real-time codec, leaving a slug for the graphics sequences. Then you drop in your graphics (rendered to your real-time codec from AE), then compress to MPEG-2 in Compressor. Unless you expected to do more effects in FCP, that would save you a compression (rendering) step in FCP, if I understand your process.
Anybody else?
Steve -
Thanks for your adivice steve, this is all new to me but I’m keen to learn it.
Can anyone reccoment the best way of, once I’ve rendered in compressor to ge the stuff actually on a DVD ?
Thanks
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You must use a DVD Authoring tool such as Adobe Encore or Apple DVD Studio Pro, or Ulead’s product, or …
For more info, post in the COW’s DVD forum.
Steve
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