bitrate too low? WHAT?!

Mastodon STL wrote on 5/16/2006, 12:57 PM

So I'm working on a project that has 6 seconds of introduction media footage of an animation I created in After Effects. I could only get a m2v file out of after effects, so instead I rendered an uncompressed ms DV AVI and imported into vegas and reencoded as a DVDA mpeg2 (because the avi wouldn't recompress either), and I get the same message from DVDA no matter what video format I use: Track 1 'Video' ... cannot be recompressed because its bitrate is too low. I even used a CONSTANT HIGH bitrate on my last render, and I get the same message.
In the after effects proj I used some video from a previous animation, could the recoding have something to do with it? I wouldn't think so, b/c it's rendering uncompressed before I take it into Vegas.
Please help! This is driving me insane. This has been a very complex dvd and this is the only problem remaining.

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ScottW wrote on 5/16/2006, 4:38 PM

DV AVI isn't uncompressed - it's compressed, so it's not clear to me what you really did render. I would go back to AE, make sure you're doing uncompressed.

Since DVDA is going to encode the menu no matter what, you're much better off simply feeding it an uncompressed AVI.

--Scott

Mastodon STL wrote on 5/17/2006, 6:37 AM

looking at it again, the codec is set to "No Compression," it's not a DV codec (I think I was talking about the quality settings when I said DV).
For some reason it seems I'm having this problem no matter how I render it in AE.