[Tim Boelhouwers]

Hi Paul, thanks for your reply,

The other options I have for avi codecs are: xvid,mpeg4,msmpeg4,msmpeg4v2,wmv1,wmv2,mpeg2,mpeg1,h263p,x264,huffyuv,
ffv1 and original..

i had my video bit rate set at 768, I don’t know if this is parameter has a big influence.
i have just rendered the movie as a quicktime movie with the animation setting (spatial quality=most (100))

I still see some quality loose. Maybe I have to accept the result.

For my future projects I use some better quality footage, now I have got a canon fs-100 camera which records PAL mod files which I can convert to mpegs. In the future I hope to buy a HD camera.

Which render settings do you advise to keep the quality loos to a minimum if I edit in AE and compose in premiere cs-3??

[Tim Boelhouwers]

Hi Paul thanks for your reply!

when i open my vob in VLC media player i found that the file uses an MPEGV codec for video. i can’t see what the resolution is.

when I open the vob in any video converter it says that it has a resolution of 352×576 25fps i’m not sure of this is correct because the video looks acceptable..
I had convert it to an AVI with an wmv1 codec for video and aac for audio.
the resolution of 640×480 is something that i have choosen from a list. (I thought this was handy because I would like to upload the file when finished on vimeo.com).
when I played my avi file the movie lookes still fine to me.

now i have import it in after effects I dit some edits (without scaling the movie) and rendered it with:
render settings: Best settings, size 640×480
output module: lossless
format: video for windows
output info: no compression.

Do you see what I do wrong, what caused the loose of quality??

Tim