Rendering Animation for TV Broadcast???

[Mylenium]

Can anyone give me any information on rendering animation in AE for PAL system TV broadcasting? Turkish television to be specific. This will be transferred to betaCam later on, so I'm trying to figure out the right render settings for this. I'd greatly appreciate any info about the format, size, compression, audio, field settings...

Thanks

Just plain PAL DV (720x576, 1.667 pixel ratio, upper field first). Detacam SP records at 44 kHZ, DigiBeta at 48 kHz.

Mylenium

[ilac]

Just plain PAL DV (720x576, 1.667 pixel ratio, upper field first). Detacam SP records at 44 kHZ, DigiBeta at 48 kHz.

Mylenium

Hi, Isn't PAL DV Lower field first?

I've always come across conflicting information on this. Even templates in some programs (like Sony Vegas) give Pal Standard as Upper but Pal DV as Lower first!

Thanks

[scrimski]

PAL=upper field first. And its 1,067 pixel aspect(though I think it's a typo error in Myleniums post)

[Mylenium]

Hi, Isn't PAL DV Lower field first?

I've always come across conflicting information on this. Even templates in some programs (like Sony Vegas) give Pal Standard as Upper but Pal DV as Lower first!

Thanks

DV itself is always lower field, but you are not outputting to it. The resolutions are however the same.

Mylenium

[Jeffparadox]

And I assume this will be 25fps?

So, I got a little confused with the fields... I'll render out movie to my HardDisk upper field first, or lower?

thanks again

[Mylenium]

And I assume this will be 25fps?

So, I got a little confused with the fields... I'll render out movie to my HardDisk upper field first, or lower?

thanks again

Yes, 25 fps, upper field first.

Mylenium

[Johnkokk]

Ok this is relative to the topic.

I' ve got a video that has been shot with a DV cam(PAL).

I want to apply some effects on it, so i import it to AE, apply the effects and then i want to export back on my hard drive and later on a BETACAM video.

If i choose PAL DV in the composition settings, i see that the field settings is set to off, although i chose PAL DV.

Does that mean that i have to manually change this to upper field ?
If i render the video with upper field, is it it normal that the video looks like crap on a computer monitor ?

Can someone be so kind and post the exact settings in the composition settings window, so that the video looks ok on a PAL TV ?

Thanks anyway.

[Jeffparadox]

Ok this is relative to the topic.

I' ve got a video that has been shot with a DV cam(PAL).

I want to apply some effects on it, so i import it to AE, apply the effects and then i want to export back on my hard drive and later on a BETACAM video.

If i choose PAL DV in the composition settings, i see that the field settings is set to off, although i chose PAL DV.

Does that mean that i have to manually change this to upper field ?
If i render the video with upper field, is it it normal that the video looks like crap on a computer monitor ?

Can someone be so kind and post the exact settings in the composition settings window, so that the video looks ok on a PAL TV ?

Thanks anyway.

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I assume you've already de-interlaced and applied the effects to your video, but just want to export it to your HardDisk now. When you're rendering you'll need to set the fields from your render settings window, your composition settings should be fine once set to PAL DV. It's normal that the frames look weird on the comp monitor after you render it out, since it will be combining multiple frames into one. Though they should play fine on tv. All this is for preventing strobbing on tv screen. afterEffects help menu has some graphic info about how the field thing works, and how to test it on tv. I don't know if this helps, and I should mention that I'm not an expert on the sbj since I started the thread...

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