Render settings for DVD

I'm rendering .mov files and creating DVD's for display on a 32" hdtv. I have made the DVD's in iDVD and all is functioning perfectly, the only thing is that the quality is really bad! The colors look much lighter and all of the crisp detail is lost and it looks very blurry. It's purely an animation video, all created within After Effects. What am I doing wrong? Is there a setting within the composition that I should know about? Please let me know if anyone has an answer to creating a simple, high quality video, using After Effects.

Your biggest mistake was not reading the section on rendering. Type "rendering" in the search help field at the top right corner of AE and study up.
I would use the Adobe Media Encoder and one of the for DVD options.

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Hi all,
Bit of a newbie question regarding render settings for Blu-Ray. If I understand correctly, the uk frame rate is 25fps???? And we generally have 1080p TV's etc??? The Blu-ray presets in Media encoder don't offer this and the fact they don't makes me question if I'm not understanding the required settings correctly. ME does offer a 25fps preset but only in 1080i. So, my question is, what should I be rendering to, to then take the rendered file and author it to play on UK blu-ray players. Incidentaly, does anyone have any recommendations on authoring software. I just need to break it down into several seperate categories as well as being able to play the entire movie so the budget is minimal.
Many thanks for your help.
SJ

Hi, I'm using Mac Blu-rayRipper Pro and iMedia converter as well as Handbrake to get the highest quality transfer from my Blu-ray disks to iTunes and AppleTV. Each disk is a bit of a project as no two are the same in terms of the best method of conversion.
I've put a few details in my blog post on getting Blu-ray to work on my Mac Pro in the UK. Was a bit of an epic journey in the UK as we don't have all the options available in the USA:
http://www.theapplechap.com/TheAppleChap/Blog/Entries/2010/6/20Getting_the_most_out_of_Blu-ray_on_aMac.html
I also posted a short series of articles about getting the best possible movie conversion in iTunes covering subtitles, metadata and SD-HD tagging. May help so here's the link (to the first one, there are 3 in my blog):
http://www.theapplechap.com/TheAppleChap/Blog/Entries/2010/4/23Perfect_video_in_iTunes_-_Part_1Getting_great_rippedcontent.html
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I wanted to verify my settings.
I have a composition of image sequences (and music) for an animation (30fps, varying resolution). I need to render this out to an uncompressed YUV avi for delivery to a DVD house to transcode and fab onto NTSC DVD disc.
would it best for me to make my adjustments in the 'Composition Settings' (width: 720, height: 480, PAR: 0.91, frame rate: 29.97)?
or should I do this in the 'Output Module' (format: AVI (Uncompressed UYVY), resize: 720 x 480) and 'Render Settings' (frame rate: 29.97)?
I'm not quite certain how the timing/frame rate will be affected by doing it in the Comp or at Render, is it the same? Or whether at render time adjustments will be made to the Pixel Aspect Ratio?
The final avi should look distorted on a computer monitor correct?

I used a combination of setting the composition to 720x480 with a pixel aspect ratio of 0.91 and transformed the animation to fit.
then i rendered out to AVI (UYVY) and set the frame rate in the 'Render Settings' to 29.97.
The result looks undistorted on my computer screen. And when i loaded it up in GSpot, I see that the frame rate and resolution are correct (29.97, 720x480), but the Pixel Aspect Ratio (PAR) is 1 (square pixel). I didn't receive any warning telling me that that PAR conversion occurred.
Also I'm a bit unclear on the PAR, I understand that NTSC uses rectangular pixels (0.91) while computer monitors use square pixels (1). So I assume we set our compositions to 720x480 (3:2) with a 0.91 PAR so that they'll stretch to 4:3 when watched on a TV correct?
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Best Export Settings for DVD burning and Computer viewing

Hello,
I am trying to export a 1 hour video that I need to be compatible with standard DVD players as well as viewable on any computer.
Original footage was shot with a Canon 5d Mark ii in 24fps.
I have done all of my editing in Premiere Pro CS6. From there, I exported a high quality file to bring into Media Encoder (for trials of best output). My master file from Premiere was exported with the Preset MPEG2. The only thing I changed in the preset was VBR from 1 pass to 2 pass.. This gave me a 6.2 GB file.
I then brought that file into Media Encoder where I have tried the following presets:
MPEG2-DVD - Match Source Attributes
MPEG2-DVD - NTSC 23.976fps Widescreen High Quality
MPEG2 - HDTV 720p 23.976 High Quality
MPEG2 - NTSC DV High Quality
These settings have encountered various issues.. some have significant banding, but most importantly, none of them will play on my DVD player when I burn them to a disc.
The discs I am using are Sony DVD-RW with a 4.7GB capacity.
Where am I going wrong here? From what I've read, the format needs to be MPEG2 to be viewed on DVD... Sorry if I sound ignorant! This stuff is tricky..

First off, don't export your timeline and then take the result to AME to re-encode, this is compressing your video twice and degrading quality (not to mention takes extra time and hard drive space). Always export direct from Premiere to Media Encoder. If you must use an "intermediate" file as part of your workflow, perhaps to archive a completed video that might later be exported to other formats, then use a lossless codec such as UT or Lagarith (free downloads).
For DVDs, you MUST use "MPEG-2 DVD". Other forms of MPEG-2 are not appropriate, as the official DVD specification requires that the MPEG-2 file has certain attributes. Not recommended to use "Match Source" for ANY export, just choose an appropriate setting as needed.
This should be correct for your application - MPEG-2 DVD > NTSC 23.976fps Widescreen High Quality
If you want to encode a DVD file over 1 hour in length, then you will need to adjust the encoding bitrate so the resulting file will fit the disc. Rule of thumb is 560/minutes = bitrate, but you might round down the result a bit to allow for menu overhead and such, depending.
Once you export the "MPEG-2 DVD" file, you can NOT simply burn that file to DVD media. That is only creating a DATA disc and it will not be playable in a DVD player (though a computer or PS3/PS4 may work since they can play most media files). To make a DVD that works in all DVD players (and meets the spec), it MUST be "authored" in a program like Adobe Encore. This compiles your content and menus and all that and then writes the result to the disc in certain way so that DVD players can read the disc. If you open any DVD on your computer, you will see a folder called "VIDEO_TS" and inside that there are .vob files and others. That is a proper DVD. And once you have a proper DVD, you can't simply copy the VIDEO_TS to another disc (as DATA), you must tell the burning software to create as a "VIDEO DVD" and not DATA, or it again won't be readable in a DVD player. Very picky spec, sorry.
When using AME to export MPEG-2 DVD, it will create two files, audio and video (.m2v and .wav), you will then Import both of those into Encore together. Note that you CAN import other formats into Encore, such as .avi but Encore will then transcode that to the correct MPEG-2 format anyway, so best that you take charge and create the right media in the first place in AME before you get to Encore.
EDIT: In AME, any time that your source is higher resolution than the destination, such as HD to DVD, you can check the "Max Render Quality" button in AME to provide the best downscale quality.
EDIT 2: I see you're using DVD-RW media. That is fine for experimenting, but for delivery to clients always use good quality DVD-R or DVD+R media. DVD-RW may not have the best compatibility with players and costs more anyways. DVDs are so cheap now that I just proof to DVD-R and toss the bad ones, up to you.
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Render settings for presentation on computer.

I am making a presentation of Student interviews for a local high school graduation. I rendered it down and played it on my Macbook pro, and the words are out of sync. I used a Canon 5d MK2 (1080p, 30 frames, 48k) It looks great and is in sync in premiere.
What is the best render setting to keep the highest quality and keep the sync??
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I don't know if these are the highest quality but I didn't have any issues using either H264 widescreen with audio settings at 48k or Quicktime with 48k exporting from PrPro in Windows for playback on a Mac using Quicktime. The Quicktime file didn't look as good using Quicktime player for Windows, and the H264 looked fine on both QT for PC and Mac. The sync issue could have been from using 44.1 instead of 48k audio.

Correct settings for DVD

Hi
I wish to know which are the correct settings for making a new project in imovie and then what to do for getting the best quality on DVD. (I use still pictures and video clips with music, transitions and effects)
Thank you so much.

ola
the correct format depends on the format your camera (PAL or NTSC - 4:3 or 16:9) meaning the project format should meet the camera format. pleas note that that format changes in iMovie/iDVD are effective only for new projects and cannot change existing ones. the dvd quality settings depend on the length of your movie and can be set in iDVD under preferences.
my movies are never longer than 30 min. so i set it to faster encoding and check background encoding ... i also tried with best quality once but frankly i can't see the difference
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hi,
it depends on what you have going on in your project as well. Use the render settings that give you the most fliudity for your current project. And / or you can select a play range and only render view that part as you work on. Its more dependant on your RAM anyway, since a rendered project is loaded into RAM to play.
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Best export settings for dvd

Im sure this question has been answered already but i dont see it anywhere. So what is the best export settings for getting the highest quality from my original footage for making dvd in encore? My original footage is recorded in AVCHD

>require this much memory
Just a comment to help with future communication... memory is RAM, file storage is on a hard disk
Glossary of Terms http://forums.adobe.com/message/2276441 to help w/communication
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When I create a project on #2 drive, the various work files follow,
so my boot drive is not used for the media cache folders and files
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Search Microsoft to find out how to redirect your Windows paging swap file
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Best Compostion Settings for DVD output

I am working on a project that does involve some regular DV footage but the vast majority of the footage will be animation movs exported from After Effects. These movies are simply pans and zooms on still photos done in After Effects.
What I'm wondering is what sequence settings I should use.
The final output will be to DVD and it will be viewed mainly on TVs, not computers.
One thing I hate is when I do these still pics and on a TV they look jittery or shimmery or alias-y or whatever it's called.
Is there some way to avoid this?
Is it possible to do a movie in progressive scan even though some of the footage is DV?
How about when exporting from AE? Should I use the DV setting or the progressive setting?
Any thoughts will be very helpful.
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S

David,
Your answer "Depends on what is causing the problem. Could be one of (or a combination of) many things; resolution too high, areas of fine detail in the image, poor scan, dimpled/textured photo paper, patterns within the image, areas of high contrast within the image, etc. Each of these problems needs to be addressed individually for each photo." intrigues me.
We are scanning the photos as high res (3000x2000 in some cases) TIF files to allow for panning and zooming. They are B+W and do often have high contrast. They also often have areas of fine detail. I don't think poor scanning or dimpled paper are issues.
Could you offer any ideas on how to fix these images for TV viewing? I will say that I have read other posts on here about using deinterlace, flicker filter, etc and I am never pleased with the way the image is degraded with these filters.
The best I have found is to use a slight blur. On this forum people often say less than .5 pixels but that is never enough to eliminate the flicker, shimmer, what-have-you. I am often forced to use a gaussian blur of 1 to 1.5 pixels.
What I don't like about this is how it then looks on a computer monitor (should people pop the DVD into watch on their home computer). On a TV the images generally look fine.
Any ideas?
Do you think just sticking with regular NTSC DV sequence settings is appropriate?
What about sequence settings for video processing? Would it help at all to use "high quality YUV" rather than "8 bit YUV" since these are animation movies of still pics?
Thanks for the help,
S

Best settings for DVD project

I have done all of my work so far for online projects so I didn't realise that dvd always has dimensions of 720x576, and that it is only blueray which plays in full HD, until I started building a DVD project in Encore.
I would like some advice to produce the best possible results on a dvd format;
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What I'm asking really is how should I export my project from Premiere, and build it in Encore for best possible results for DVD format?
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If you want the best conversion this method is regarded as one of the best,
Bellune Digital Video Services - Tutorials - hd2sd - High Quality Scaling From HD to SD
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