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g0ldenb0y55

g0ldenb0y55

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Ok, here's the situation:

We are about to start production on a children's educational show. It will all be shot on green screen with a DVX-100, shot in 30P. It will be edited on a 30fps project in Avid, and exported from there to AE for the keying and effects. What should the export from Avid be, and export back to Avid be? Also, the Avid machine is seperate from the AE machine. Thanks for the help!
 
well try lossless export, or microsoft dv, or uncompressed.
render just a few seconds, you will be able to choose which fits the best
 
I'm more thinking of keeping the progressive frames, and not interlace them. Is there a setting in AE to keep it progressive?
 
When you import the media into AE, it should be seen as progressive if that's how you've exported it from Avid. You may have to manually set the pulldown method of the imported media in AE to match the 30p footage.

When you export from AE, just make sure Field Render is turned off in the Render Settings dialog.

Using an uncompressed or lossless codec will be your best choices for final render out of AE. Lossless will yield smaller file sizes, but depending on the lossless codec you use, it may be slow to render and decompress.

If you've applied no effects/post-processing to the footage before exporting out of Avid, you can render using a DV codec without any loss in quality. This will save on disk space and render time.
 
anyway, somettimes, tga files are the best way to render. imageine that the rendered file is so big, that you cannot send it from one computer, to another. even DVD-s are to small. but you can put the half of the frames on a dvd, or on 2 dvds..., and you do not have to worry about the file size.
 
What surf says is true-- rendering to an image sequence does have its benefits. One being that you can break up a render to fit the alloted storage medium, and another being that you don't have to re-render an entire sequence if you've only gone back and modified a small section of the sequence (as you would with a video file).

Also, if disk space is an issue, then you can pack even more into the same space (a DVD-R for instance) by rendering to an image format that can use better lossless compression than tga can (such as PNG)
 
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