Help..pls

[14343]

this is my problem:

 

a client wants the quality of the animation in dvd and vcd quality can anyone tell me how can i produce this? and also what is the ideal screen size of an animation?

 

hope i can get help here............

[14343]

Do i just have to convert it?......................from avi to whatever i want?

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

Do i just have to convert it?......................from avi to whatever i want?

 

always work with your animations in an uncompressed format, avi is perfect. although when working with frames i use jpeg with max quality. even though it is still compressed, it is minimal, and makes the file sizes a lot easier to deal with.

 

typically my workflow might go like this... write jpeg sequence out of max. convert them into uncompressed avi file, composit and do any post process to the sequences in aftereffects, then write out a final jpeg sequence that i send to whatever company is creating the tapes.

 

a lot of people disagree with using jpeg, and insist upon targa or tiff. ..both of which are lossless formats.

 

i have never animated for DVD, so i don't know about the correct resolution to use, but i think there are several depending on the quality you want. for video, use 720x540. this is an ideal universal size for the company creating the videos. if they need to change the pixel aspect ratio, they can do it without a problem. at least the way i understand it.

 

also, respect the 'safe' and 'title' areas of your compsiting/aniamtion software. anything inside the safe area will definetly show up on the television screen, anything not, may be clipped. it is important to respect the title safe area for the same reasons.

 

also, there is a recommended min font to use to make it readable on tv, but i can not remember what it is.

 

another thing to keep in mind is that televisions, at least classic tube ones, use interlaced video. this means that every frame will have half of one image, and half of the next image in it. tube tv's alternate showing the lines so that the picture plays smooth. it is really old technolology. monitors, and i would imagine high def tv's use a scan line procedure for displaying video. this means that the images are displayed from the top to bottom.

 

this is something to also discuss with your the tape production guys.

 

sorry fro the ran]mbling post, hopefully some of the info helps.

 

but to answer your first question.... avi's are a great universal format to work with, but the file sizes can be a little unruley at times. about 2 gigs per minute of video rendered at 720 x 540. ...but, you this is also the standard to compress into any format you want. and remember the more times you compress, the crappier it looks. try to compress just once, although terchincally i do twice.

[14343]

many thanks to your advices man!...................it helps alot!.................