ZFact Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Hi; What do i need to save and animation as, and compress it as for use on home dvd players and wide screen format? Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinsmith Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 MPEG2 MPML, 720 x 576 pixels, 1.422 pixel aspect ratio, 25fps, maximum data rate 10 Mbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZFact Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 I only have an option for MPEG4?? WILL THIS DO?? GOT THE REST SORTED CHEERS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnold Gallardo Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 No MPEG4 only as a slightly better resolution than a VHS. You will want MPEG2 as qouted above. You can try to use VirtualDub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZFact Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 got it sorted i think..... but why does the proportion look so square.... isnt wide screen more rectangular than 720 x 576? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 i found that sorenso is also a good codec. if it's called sorenso, maybe miss spelled. see if you can download a codec pack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZFact Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 i have sorenso but will that play on a home dvd player. I am also struggling with the 720 x 576 proportion... it just seams to square!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 sorenso is the codec, its the way it's compressed. you can save it as avi which is the format. the dvd will be able to play avi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZFact Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 iv been adviced above to use an mpeg2 format!! iv tried this but when burning the dvd videos files nero tells me it is an unrecognised video file format? any help would be great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinsmith Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 Ok, all PAL video is 720x576, but the difference between 4:3 and 16:9 comes from the pixel aspect ratio. If you do 720x576 at a 1.422 pixel aspect, it come sout to the proportions of (720x1.422) by 576, or 1024x576ish. For the compression..... I can't remember what options Nero might have for DVD building... As well as compressing the video to MPEG2 you will need to authour a DVD, adding menus etc, or at least setting it up so none are needed. I do that in Adobe Encore, write out the authoured files to a folder, then burn them with Nero. Depending on the authouring software you use it might have options to do MPEG2 compression at that time too. That is just the same deal, the only advantage is that the default options there will likely give you a compatable file for authouring.... you'd hope so anyhow, eh? ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZFact Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 HELP PLEASE ANYONE...... Once they are saved out as mpeg2 formats the extension seems to be chaging to something different... 2 files show an .XMP file and a .wav file.... iv spent hours on this if someone could give me some help it would great. Im using adobe after effects 7.0 and new to it. Can i authour the files out of AE? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koper Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 oh, i thought you just wanted to drop the video file onto a dvd, pop it into a dvd player and play it. but looks like you want to have a full dvd movie with chapters and everything, such as the dvd movies one buys. I think adobe premier can also author for dvd video If i were you, I'd just create a data dvd in nero and drop the video file onto it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Pende Posted November 14, 2006 Share Posted November 14, 2006 You want wana try Cineform HD codec for avi. its an ecelent quality...Ive tried with MS MPEG4 V2...not happy with reults, even with quality set at best... As for Sorenson you have to look for PRO version! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZFact Posted November 14, 2006 Author Share Posted November 14, 2006 If i were you, I'd just create a data dvd in nero and drop the video file onto it Iv tried this and it doesnt work.... the DVD player says.... unknown disc. Any suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinsmith Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Once they are saved out as mpeg2 formats the extension seems to be chaging to something different... 2 files show an .XMP file and a .wav file.... Im using adobe after effects 7.0 and new to it. Can i authour the files out of AE? I've not moved to AE 7.0 yet, but as far as I remember / can see there is no DVD authouring in it. Premiere Pro 2.0 has just added DVD authouring http://www.adobe.com/products/premiere/newfeatures.html#nf3 Otherwise Adobe Encore does the job. I think if you decide on the authouring software you are going to use then that will decide any little variations in the exact MPEG files it will accept. On my workflow (Premiere Pro 1.5 / RTX100) encoding to MPEG2 gives 2 files too, a MPEG video file and a wav audio file. This is no problem as the DVD authouring software (Encore) imports those and then you can encode to AC3 audio anyway. If you were working with Encore you would have also the option to just export an uncompressed AVI and an uncompress wav from AE, import them as assets and build the DVD, then transcode the files to MPEG2 / AC3 and build the DVD disk. There will be similar workflows for other DVD authouring software but I'm not familiar with the details of those. There are other suggestions on here for various other codecs, and some of them will preserve higher image quality. BUT, if you are going to DVD in the end, and have your graphics /video already, there is no benefit in any kind of intermediate format, other than maybe to make smaller files for archiving.... I think that's a different issue, so don't worry about it at the moment, all you're looking to do is take the files you have and make a DVD ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinsmith Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Iv tried this and it doesnt work.... the DVD player says.... unknown disc. Any suggestions? That will probably work with some players, but not the majority. Some of the cheap Chinese players especially will play just about anything, built in just about any way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manta Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 When all is said and done you should end up with files like these, this is what the dvd player is going to need... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinsmith Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 To confirm, the .vobs etc above are created when the dvd is authoured, not when you compress video to MPEG2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZFact Posted November 15, 2006 Author Share Posted November 15, 2006 ok... i think iv finally grasped the concept.... took me a bit but im there now.... thanks for all the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aja2104 Posted May 13, 2007 Share Posted May 13, 2007 I am pretty sure that in Adobe Premiere Pro, you can just 'export to dvd' However, are you still required to tell which codec/compressor to use? Or does the program use a preselected codec that will perform best with the dvd? Anyone?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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