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Nathan Raabe
October 17, 2011 at 5:03 pm in reply to: 14 Day After Effects Course for high schoolers – looking for project suggestions

Thank you for the suggestion. I was maybe thinking more along the lines of animation based. Animating logos or text? It would be awesome to show them particles/expressions/etc but after teaching a graphic design course at the same program last summer and going over the most basic features of Illustrator, some of those things went right over their heads.
Nathan Raabe
October 1, 2011 at 9:55 pm in reply to: Content for Local Movie Theater – Best way burn animations to DVD?

Thanks very much Michael. I think I finally understand everything now. I was getting the DVD and theater content mixed up.
Nathan Raabe
October 1, 2011 at 8:29 pm in reply to: Content for Local Movie Theater – Best way burn animations to DVD?

Would you mind walking me through the process Michael? So I import my file into AE and make it it’s own comp. 720×1280 and it has it’s original pixel aspect ratio of sq. pixels.

I create a new comp at 720×480 with a pixel aspect ratio of D1/DV NTSC Widescreen (1.21). Add the 720×1280 comp in. With the pixel aspect ratio button unchecked the footage looks squished but with it checked, meaning how it will actually be display, the footage has a bunch of jaggy edges… reading up on this, that is just how AE deals with the widescreen but when I render the file it those jaggys won’t be there. Is that correct?

What do you mean by “author the dvd with 16:9 letterbox”? Do I need the blackbars? I want the footage flush to the edges so if I scale up the 720×1280 comp it just cuts off a little from the top and bottom. Is that fine?

What do you mean by “if I’m creating the animation I want to keep it progressive all the way through”? How is that accomplished and what does that mean?

The 720×1280 file has a H264 compression on it. If i put that in the 720×480 comp, can I render the file out as a quicktime with no compression which would keep the original H264 compression on it? OR do I have to go back to the original file, set all this up (placing the 720×1280 in the 720×480, rendering out an uncompressed QT, and then bring that file into AME to put the H264 codec on it?)

Thanks,
Nathan
Nathan Raabe
October 1, 2011 at 7:02 pm in reply to: Content for Local Movie Theater – Best way burn animations to DVD?

Thanks for the quick response Michael.

I think you are correct that I need to just give them the file that they want played on the big screen. But for the advertising in the lobby on the flatscreen TV I am told to burn the file on a DVD that will continually loop.

So back to my original post, why when I burn the file 720×1280, sq. px to a DVD with iDVD does the footage become pixelated?

Thanks,
Nathan