Help! Someone please!
Either my editing/filmmaking is done until I get a new computer or someone please tell me I’m doing something wrong.
Yesterday I made a quick intro in After Effects CS5. A 5 second clip involving built in Particle World and 3D camera flying thru the text. Very basic and simple.
After rendering into basically every format and trying out to see what works, I had two outcomes: distorted quality or good quality but lags.
Lag is about half a second or so but that is enough for me to say the footage is unacceptable. It would play for a second perfectly fine and than lag for half a second…..then play normally for two seconds and lag again….
Now I googled the problem and they say either my computer renders it that way because of not enough ram or something or during playback, my computer cant play the video perfectly or something like that. They said that for preview I can render half quality, BUT MY ULTIMATE GOAL is to save the video and perhaps save it to DVD or computer and be able to play it on the TV for my friends and so on with good quality or watch is full screen on my computer and enjoy the quality.
IMO the best way to go about my post work would be using After Effects then transfer the footage I edited into Premiere Pro and render final video to a format. BUT> which format is the BEST to render in so I can use it to submit to a film festival (I know, high hopes) and play at home while retaining the best quality possible and be able to view full screen. I think I will be using DSLR preset in Premiere Pro CS5 which is DSLR 720p > 1280x720 since i’ll be using one to shoot my films.
With that said, I tried various formats. Lossless, compressed AVI, MPEG4….and so on. Perhaps its my player? I used Windows Media.
One more thing I will try is to take the final clip and play it on my friends faster comp and see if its my comp having problems playing or renders it wrong.
If you watch youtube short films shot on dslrs you will notice that some of them have the lag I am reffering to….
Also, don’t know how much it matters, but I was using custom setting in AFTER EFFECTS which was set to hdv 1280x720.
So to recap:
Which format, aspect ratio (16:9 or 4:3?) and settings is the best to render in Premiere Pro CS5 > to watch at home full screen or on TV and so on with the best quality?
Why is my rendered footage lags? Is it due to slow computer or I do something wrong during render?
My comp is windows 7 64 bit 4gb ram.
Thank you all
Roman
Either my editing/filmmaking is done until I get a new computer or someone please tell me I’m doing something wrong.
Yesterday I made a quick intro in After Effects CS5. A 5 second clip involving built in Particle World and 3D camera flying thru the text. Very basic and simple.
After rendering into basically every format and trying out to see what works, I had two outcomes: distorted quality or good quality but lags.
Lag is about half a second or so but that is enough for me to say the footage is unacceptable. It would play for a second perfectly fine and than lag for half a second…..then play normally for two seconds and lag again….
Now I googled the problem and they say either my computer renders it that way because of not enough ram or something or during playback, my computer cant play the video perfectly or something like that. They said that for preview I can render half quality, BUT MY ULTIMATE GOAL is to save the video and perhaps save it to DVD or computer and be able to play it on the TV for my friends and so on with good quality or watch is full screen on my computer and enjoy the quality.
IMO the best way to go about my post work would be using After Effects then transfer the footage I edited into Premiere Pro and render final video to a format. BUT> which format is the BEST to render in so I can use it to submit to a film festival (I know, high hopes) and play at home while retaining the best quality possible and be able to view full screen. I think I will be using DSLR preset in Premiere Pro CS5 which is DSLR 720p > 1280x720 since i’ll be using one to shoot my films.
With that said, I tried various formats. Lossless, compressed AVI, MPEG4….and so on. Perhaps its my player? I used Windows Media.
One more thing I will try is to take the final clip and play it on my friends faster comp and see if its my comp having problems playing or renders it wrong.
If you watch youtube short films shot on dslrs you will notice that some of them have the lag I am reffering to….
Also, don’t know how much it matters, but I was using custom setting in AFTER EFFECTS which was set to hdv 1280x720.
So to recap:
Which format, aspect ratio (16:9 or 4:3?) and settings is the best to render in Premiere Pro CS5 > to watch at home full screen or on TV and so on with the best quality?
Why is my rendered footage lags? Is it due to slow computer or I do something wrong during render?
My comp is windows 7 64 bit 4gb ram.
Thank you all
Roman