Best settings for exporting?
by McQueenUK
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Sep 12, 2007 at 6:58:15 pm
Just starting on AE. It took me 4 years to get the hang of Ulead's Cool 3D so I am trying to shortcut my AE learning curve.
I work in PAL both full res. and compressed DV. I understand that the field dominance of full res. PAL is Upper Field First and that the field dominance of PAL DV is Lower Field First so I will have 2 different outputs for the 1 animation.
I can live with this.
In Cool 3D i prepared widescreen anims as 1024 x 576, standard 4:3 as 720 x 576 and saved them as 32 bit .avi files. I saved them as both Upper Field First and Lower Field First and they imported overlayed and played back on a TV monitor faultlessly.
I have tried a couple of simple anims on AE but I can never get them to render as fieldsonly frames and they are a wee bit jittery on TV playback.
Any ideas on which settings are best for me?
Re: Best settings for exporting? by Dave LaRonde on Sep 12, 2007 at 7:24:38 pm
First off, I hope you're not really exporting, but rendering using AE's Render Queue. You'll be a lot better off, and there is a difference between the two in AE. It sounds like you might be, but I had to say something about it. Unless you have no other choice but to export, you're better off rendering in AE.
[McQueenUK]"I have tried a couple of simple anims on AE but I can never get them to render as fieldsonly frames and they are a wee bit jittery on TV playback. "
That's because the field order controls in AE probably hide in a different place than you're used to. Go to Edit>Templates>Render Settings. You'll find where to render using upper field first and lower field first. In fact, you can save your own render settings and call them Lower Field First, Upper Field First or something equally creative.
