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working with HD widescreen
I’ve created a new HD comp for an animation. Will I loose quality rendering out the file in .ave or quicktime? The footage I have will be shot in DV.
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What is the frame size of your HD comp?
What is the frame size of your source video?If the comp is bigger than the source, you have to scale up the source, so yes, you will lose quality. You can try the ReSizer plugin to lessen the pain of it.
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I’m new to this HD thing. I just thought I’d try the preset. But someone brought up rendering it out in AE as an .avi would cause the video to loose quality. I guess it wouldn’t really matter. I could change the preset to regular DV widescreen.
I’m just wondering what the big thing is with HD? If you shoot or use the HD preset, do you need to burn to HD DVD? -
HD widescreen 720 and widescreen dv
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Rendering as an *uncompressed* AVI doesn’t cause quality loss. But you should know that it can’t be played back on most systems — it’s meant for clips that need to be transferred to another app for further processing.
All HD is widescreen.
What you were working in is called “720p”. It’s one “flavour” of HD. Another is 1080i. AE has presets for those.In this business you work in the format you’re delivering, the format of your source, or the largest format you expect to deliver in the future (if budget allows). The best format is the one that you’re delivering.
If you’re delivering DV widescreen, work in that format. But beware: your 4:3 footage will have to be enlarged to fit the width of the screen, or you’ll have to show black bars on either side of the screen. If you have to enlarge the footage, it will look softer, but not much worse than DV already is. Make sure you want to do this, otherwise just deliver regular 4:3 DV.
The “big thing” with HD is that properly shot HD looks better than SD (standard def).
If you have HD source, you don’t have to burn HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. You can shrink it down to SD, and burn a regular DVD from it. But know that properly shot HD footage will look better than SD footage, even when shrunk down to SD.
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Thank you that helps with the stress.
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