[Jaeson Jrakman]

*5.5 hour render time.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

Okay, so I got the codec and installed it.

I’m now rendering out the DNxHD from After Effects as you suggest. It’s giving me a 5.5 render time for a 1:11:59 length footage of 854 x 480. Does that sound right? I selected 100% quality. Should I have selected less?

Anyway, I’m going to let this render overnight.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

You sure did. I get home from work a bit late, so sometimes I’m a bit tired when reading posts. I see where you wrote that now.

I’ve read other folks talk about using the .m2v and .wav, but I don’t really know how to use them together in encore.

I mentioned that I’ve imported .mp4 (which I won’t do anymore as per your recommendation) but I’ve also imported .mov’s (should I be importing those?). It’s worked for me in the past because the file takes care of itself. I’m not sure how to marry the video and audio in Encore with two separate files.

You instructions here make it sound pretty simple, so I’ll give it a shot with importing the two separate files into Encore as you describe.

I’m guessing the .m2v and .wav exported out of After Effects are just as good as the same files exported out of Premiere? I prefer the workflow of After Effects over Premiere very much.

I haven’t done any manual set up either, with regard to aspect ratio. So far, it has known what aspect ratio the footage is, and automatically selects it. This is the first time I’ve run into this problem.

Anyway, thanks again for your patience and sticking with me. I’ll let you know how your suggestion goes for me.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

It looks like this guy was having a similar problem, but I’m not sure what he did. I’m having a difficult time understand what he’s written:

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1453516

[Jaeson Jrakman]

Back in After Effects, I chose QuickTime, but no Cineform option is available. There’s something called Cinepak.

And I don’t see DNxHD anywhere. But there is an MXF OP1a as a format option.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

You know, I’m not sure the Premiere option will work for me either because I don’t really know what to do with all the files it creates.

One interesting note, in Encore when I click on the .mp4, it shows the dimensions as 854 x 480. But when I click on the timeline that that .mp4 is in, it shows the dimensions as being 720 x 480.

When I click on the preview, it seems to play fine without the added pillar boxes that appear when the DVD is burned.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

So rendering the MPEG-2 video from After Effects gave me an XMPSES File, an Adobe Prelude XMP file, and a Wave Sound file. I’m not really sure what to do with all of that, so I think I’ll give the Premiere option a go instead.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

Everything I’m running is CS6. I’ll try to look for those options again later this evening. Again, thanks for your responses here!

[Jaeson Jrakman]

Actually I’m going to try rendering an MPEG2-DVD out of After Effects first, and see if that works. If not, then I’ll try Premiere.

[Jaeson Jrakman]

So I opened up After Effects, and I don’t have any options to export as DNxHD or Cineform.

There is a DPX\Cineon Sequence option. But I don’t know if that’s the same thing.

There’s also an MPEG2-DVD option.

I’ll try the Premiere route for now.