After Effects to DVD
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- bruised_blood
Hi there,
I'm making a 4 minute presentation for a client, and it's being produced in After Effects. The things is, time is very very short, and after I render the movie, I need to get it on DVD as quickly as possible...
Could anybody tell me what the best settings to render out of After Effects to allow for a swift transition to DVD?
I don't really have a lot of time to allow a full quality render out of After Effects, so if anybody has any suggestions on how best to compress it initially, or just generally what is the best proceedure, I would be very VERY grateful...Many thanks in advance...
- harlequino0
There are prolly a number of good ways, but if I were in a pinch, this is what I would do.
1. If you have any looped animated backgrounds, render them out as footage first, then replace in your timeline(s)
2. If you have filters/effects laid over your animation, render out withOUT filters. Import new footage, add filters, and rerender.
3. For format, I can only tell you about Mac process. I reccomend rendering to Quicktime at FULL quality, while, compressing with Sorenson 3, set to High quality, keyframing every 15 frames.
This should give you a reasonable size.That's about as quick as I can think of. Hope it helps.
- Chief0
motion jpeg B is one of the fastest codecs i've found. there's hardly any banding with gradients and there's very little generational loss. maybe give it a try?
Harlequino's right about trying to render as much as possible first and bringing it back in as footage instead of layers/comps, etc. it'll speed up your final render a ton.
- bruised_blood0
thanks guys! you've been a great help! :)
this deadline's tighter than a gnat's nut sack... :(