Re: Need help - Audio outputs for DVD and movie

Hey Gina,
How are you putting your animation together? It sounds like you're doing everything in the computer? Assuming this is the case and assuming you're using a compositing program like After Effects, once you have everything built the way you want, that compositing program will be able to export a final file to the specifications you desire.

For example, if you're building your project at 1080 24fps, when you tell the software to export to DVD format it will do all the necessary calculations to get that video to 720x480 at 29.97 fps, keeping the audio and video in sync.

However, if you're going to be handing your project files over to a post house, you won't even have to worry about this. Just make sure the source you hand them is exactly how you want it and they can convert everything over without issue.

In terms of workflow it sounds like you've got it covered. If you can get your script and audio done first, that's always easier to animate to. You may want to animate to your narration and then do the score as a final step like you said.

I hope that helps! Again, if you're just going to be handing your final project files off to a post house and having them convert it to DVD, film, etc, they'll be able to handle the whole framerate conversion and you shouldn't have to worry about a thing!

Good luck!