Computer Animation Arts

Attention all New Designers Exhibitors! For New Designers we're going to be using Media Players to play your films. However, whilst these boxes are very useful and convenient they are also notoriously 'picky' about what they play correctly. So, in order to negate (or limit) any issues can you please make sure you adhere to the following... Project (Movie) Settings  Please make sure that your films have the correct settings when you start. Including, 1920x1080 HD, 24 / 25 / or 30fps (whichever frame rate as you rendered out of Maya), Pixel Aspect Ratio of 1 (square), 48000 (Audio),  Premiere Settings After Effects Settings Exporting from Premiere or After Effects Your export settings should include all of the above alongside being H.264 / Mpeg-4. Set the preset to 'Match Source - High Bitrate'. That will give you a variable bitrate of 10 and 12. You can increase this if necessary to improve the quality of the film, for exa...

Hey Third Years, Firstly, congratulations to everyone on receiving your final mark yesterday. Job well done. I've been asked to put a quick post up about Premiere Pro export settings so that all will play well on the media server. The screenshot below shows the settings I used to export my Major project which apparently played well without any glitching. I just tried to keep things simple, make your sequences from your footage, that allows for the sequence to match all the settings of your renders or pre-comps. When I export, I pretty much let Premiere Pro do all the work unless you are exporting at a non-standard resolution. For this export I used H.264 video format and used the preset "HDTV 720p 25 High Quality." This always seems to work well and keeps everything pretty standard. It will export your video out as an .mp4 and if you are playing it at home I normally stick with QuickTime player or similar. VLC and Media Player Classic are great at watching v...