Jon Geddes
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Unfortunately the built-in codecs aren’t that great. If you have a Matrox card or the Cineform codec, you have some good near-lossless export options with small file sizes compared to uncompressed. What is your reason for rendering and re-importing into premiere? Because you can import a project into premiere, and just drag all the 5 minute timelines into a new timeline. As for your final export, you might want to look into a Frameserver plugin (free):
https://debugmode.com/frameserver/
This will allow you to create a pseudo avi file which you load into another program to mpeg encode or apply special filters (like deinterlacing, resizing, sharpening in a program like Virtual Dub). What the frameserver does is load the frames from your premiere timeline into the avi file as the second program asks for them. It does this in a completely lossless process, and without creating a huge file, since it only delivers single frames at a time as the second program requests them.
It is a very easy process. When ready to export, you go to file > export > movie. Then select the debugmode frameserver as the file type output. Enter the name of the pseudo avi file it will create, then it will wait for you to open your other program to finish the work. For example, you can open up procoder, import the pseudo avi, and begin mpeg encoding it, and premiere will start feeding the procoder program uncompressed frames as it needs them. Once the encoding is complete, you can go back into premiere and stop the frameserver. It’s a very useful plugin that saves lots of space and exports in the highest quality possible.
Jon Geddes
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It is something that can be set in the authoring software, however not many of them have the option. I’m not as familiar with the mac apps for authoring, but on the PC, the booktype setting is usually set by software that comes with the burner. For example, Plextor drives come with Plextools Professional software which always runs in the background and anytime you burn to a DVD+R disc, regardless of the app you are burning it in, it will change the booktype for you to DVD-ROM. The Booktype setting can only be modified on DVD+R discs and not DVD-R. If your drive did not come with any software that allows you to do this, there are free applications that allow you to do it on certain drives. Just research “change Booktype setting” on your particular make/model burner.
Also, here is just some additional info for you:
DVD-R discs are more compatible than DVD+R discs. However, DVD+R discs WITH the booktype setting are more compatible than DVD-R discs.
I read an article once that broke down all the percentages. If I recall correctly, it was something like:
DVD+R = 75% compatibility with all players
DVD-R = 85% compatibility with all players
DVD+R w/ Booktype Setting = 95% compatibility with all playersJon Geddes
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I recently created a video tutorial on creative texture use which explains exactly how to apply a texture to individual elements in addition to colorizing them:
https://www.precomposed.com/tutorials/02_texturize/
My website has not officially launched yet, but I do have a couple tutorials up and some free downloads. Nothing is available for purchase yet.
Jon Geddes
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Use Verbatim DL 2.4x discs only. Burn @ 2.4x with Booktype Setting (which tells the player its a DVD-ROM disc instead of burned media). This has proved to be the most compatible. I own one of the first dvd players that came to market, and it refuses to play any burned media regardless, however 98% of all players (so I’ve heard) should play with the media and method I gave you.
Jon Geddes
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Do NOT use encore or premiere to downscale HD footage. It will come out looking terrible. You can downscale it in After Effects with good results. You can start a new composition with 720×480 settings, import your HD 1920×1080 file into it, and scale it down to fit. Then render the composition with the quicktime output. That SD file can then be brought into encore and transcoded at automatic with much better results. As for the menu, scale it down in photoshop before importing into encore.
Jon Geddes
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Adobe apps only do single pass On2 vp6 flv encoding. This results in greatly increased file sizes (and reduced visual quality!) at the same bitrate settings as a 2-pass encoder . Play around with the bitrate settings, try and go as low as you can without effecting the quality too much.
My 53 second Texture Packs promo video @ 386×216 30p is only 3.62MB . That was done with 112 kbps mp3 audio, and 420 kbps variable 2-pass encoding on the video.
In After Effects, with 96 kbps audio (less than the other one!), and 420 kbps video single pass encoding, the same video was almost 8 MB. It helps to have a separate application for encoding (such as sorenson squeeze)
Jon Geddes
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Or an even better way to do it…
https://www.motionscript.com/design-guide/invisible-facing-away.html
Use the expression for the opacity for each side of the postcard:
if (toCompVec([0, 0, 1])[2] > 0 ) value else 0
import each one into the comp, rotate the backside 180 degrees on the y-axis, apply the expression to the opacity on each layer, create null object and parent each layer to it. Using the expression method, you wont have any issues if the postcard is far away from the camera, or if you use depth of field, or if the layers have motion blur applied to them. Good luck.
Jon Geddes
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Regardless of a dvd being widescreen or full screen, the dimensions of the video will always be 720×480 (NTSC). If the video is intended to be 4×3, the player will apply a 0.9 pixel aspect ratio to the width, which squishes it down 640×480. However, if the video is intended to be widescreen, the player will apply a 1.2 pixel aspect ratio to the width, which causes it to stretch out to roughly 853×480. So, depending on if your footage is widescreen or full-screen, you will have to apply the appropriate pixel aspect ratio correction.
Jon Geddes
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It’s most likely a codec issue from the DV footage. I’ve experienced the same red frames when importing .wmv files into AE. Sometimes AE just doesn’t work well with certain codecs. Which one are you using by the way?
Jon Geddes
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You could create an adjustment layer above all your layers and apply the glow to that. If you don’t want it to effect everything below it, you could precompose the layers you do want it to effect, and apply the glow to that.
Jon Geddes
Motion Graphics Designer
http://www.precomposed.com