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Hi i´m currently working is HDV 50i project. The natural way to show the video will be a pal tv (I´m a pal customer)
The question is. Which is the best way to export (AE 7) HDV video to pal widescreen tv? any suggestion?
thanks
why do you want to render in AE?
I wouldn't do the final render in AE. I would export as uncompressed, and then I would set the sequence in Premiere, and I would render there. What kind of format do you want? HD-DVD, DVD, VHS, DV cassette? Choose the format and then we can help more. Although your TV is not HD, I would export it as HD, because later you may buy a new telly.
Matt Grunau
03-31-2006, 07:29 AM
Hi i´m currently working is HDV 50i project. The natural way to show the video will be a pal tv (I´m a pal customer)
The question is. Which is the best way to export (AE 7) HDV video to pal widescreen tv? any suggestion?
thanks
Depengind on the length, I would render either fully uncopressed and put the audio back in another NLE (premiere, Vegas) and output the final from there to be put to DVD or whatever format you are looking for. Before you render out ov AF, right click on your footage as soon as you import it to AE. Go to Interpret footage and be sure it is being interpereted correctly. If it is something like a TV show or something of length, you might want to keep it in AE for the whole thing. Either way, you will ned to up a composition to the correct video dimensioins and format for your HDV project, and drag your 50i into it. Then, create another composition of with the wide screen format you wish to output. Nest your HD Comp in the SD Wide comp, and change the drop the scale of the nested comp to fit.
As long as both compositions are set up correctly, and your footage is interpereted correctly, there shouldn't be a problem.
why do you want to render in AE?
I wouldn't do the final render in AE. I would export as uncompressed, and then I would set the sequence in Premiere, and I would render there. What kind of format do you want? HD-DVD, DVD, VHS, DV cassette? Choose the format and then we can help more. Although your TV is not HD, I would export it as HD, because later you may buy a new telly.
DVD will be the final way to see the video. I was thinking in export to a TIFF sequence and open it in vegas and render to mpg2...
is this better than export in AE7 as a HDV 50i project and open in vegas 6 and render to mpg2 (DVD) ?
thanks
Matt Grunau
03-31-2006, 08:00 PM
DVD will be the final way to see the video. I was thinking in export to a TIFF sequence and open it in vegas and render to mpg2...
is this better than export in AE7 as a HDV 50i project and open in vegas 6 and render to mpg2 (DVD) ?
thanks
I don't know if vegas is as good as AE for maintaining the quality of video if it's scaled down. Vegas would be great to assemble the finished audio and video, but I would use AE to convert the HD 50i to SD 25p.
Again, it depends on the length of the video. If you are going to export as an image sequence, thing about .png or .tga, both of which can use a degree of losless compression.
well If it is the full video, and not only a few scenes, you can render in AE to mpeg2, but if you will edit it later render what ever you want (I mean TIFF or HDV...) I personally prefer TIFF sequences because If you stop the rendering, you will able to restart it from the stop-point. or I you want to change something on a frame, you won't have to re-render the whole scene.
from the direction of vegas, I do not know, because I have never used vegas.
Again, it depends on the length of the video. If you are going to export as an image sequence, thing about .png or .tga, both of which can use a degree of losless compression.
TIFF is lossless too, isn't it?
yes, TIFF is a file format that it hasn´t lossless.
"Lossless output: Interframe compression (QuickTime with Animation/Most) is acceptable for movie files, lossless encoding (TGA with RLE, TIFF with LZW, or PNG) and for still images."
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