Newbie Question, I guess... Format, Asset Prep.
by Rolyn Barthelman
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Jan 19, 2009 at 10:38:56 pm
Hi.
I have created content for two dvds I'm looking to have authored and replicated.
They are ENTIRELY black and white. Not even any grey values / gradations.
I want to take them to get authored and have masters made, but the place that I've been dealing with (and seems pretty reputable) is asking me to supply my final materials on DigiBeta.
Other people that have some experience in this have suggested that I should be able to supply someone with Uncompressed Quicktimes, or Animation Quicktimes...
I really can do anything that is required, but ultimately, I'll want to do what will result in the best possible quality end product.
Like I said, all the artwork in my movies is black and white... And it's all built from solids or linked Illustrator files. In other words, all vector.
Can anyone guide me as to how I can identify an authoring company that is giving me the approach with the least amount of pixel pounding? In other words, if it were you, what is the leanest approach to getting the best quality dvds.
Likely I left some key piece of information out to help someone answer me, so please let me know if so and I'll be happy to elaborate.
Re: Newbie Question, I guess... Format, Asset Prep. by eric pautsch on Jan 19, 2009 at 11:59:06 pm
Either way you'd be OK. The authoring company your looking at is using a hardware set up so going to tape would fit their work flow. Several software encoders are available which will do just as good of job without having to dump to tape...Cinemacraft is one.
Re: Newbie Question, I guess... Format, Asset Prep. by Rolyn Barthelman on Jan 20, 2009 at 12:10:21 am
So outputting all my movies with Animation compression out of AE, then dumping to DigiBeta, then letting them take it into their system and us their Sonic SD-2000 is a pretty clean way of getting to my end product in your opinion?
Re: Newbie Question, I guess... Format, Asset Prep. by Max Kovalsky on Jan 20, 2009 at 4:24:52 am
SD-2000 is a decent encoder, but it's an old technology. There have been a lot of improvements to mpeg2 since the SD series was developed. Cinemacraft is just one of the examples.
