Steve Roberts
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If you’re planning on using Color, ask in a Color forum if there’s anything you should know before proceeding. It’s a quirky app.
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Thanks!
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Look down for a thread about Quicktime 7.4.
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Look down in the threads. This was discussed in the last few days.
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Did you recently upgrade to Quicktime 7.4?
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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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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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Well, usually white video means QT can’t read the codec. Which codec are we talking about again? Rendered from AE?
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Compressor comes with Final Cut Studio on the Mac only.
Squeeze is cross-platform.
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Your render is fine. It’s the DVD compression that doesn’t look so great. DVDs are all compressed to the MPEG-2 codec. That codec is lossy, meaning it shows quality loss.
The only way to improve the quality of DVDs is to start with high-quality source (Animation or 10-bit) and improve the MPEG-2 compression. You do that by compressing 2-pass Variable Bitrate (VBR) with a high date rate (maybe 7) when you compress to MPEG-2. Your DVD authoring app may not let you do that — you may have to use Compressor or Squeeze.