Calibrated Software MPEG2-X Create v1 - Manual (Page 21)

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Adobe After Effects CS6/CC/CC2014 - MOV
Getting Started
1. Please make sure you have QuickTime Player 7.6 or 7.7 installed
2. IMPORTANT: Please make sure you have the Adobe Performance booster installed: This modified Adobe XML
file is necessary to export at the proper 8-bit YUV422 color levels in Adobe After Effects. You can learn
more and download it by clicking
here .
3. To preserve the maximum bit depth, please make sur e you have the ‘Preview’ in the After Effects ‘Composition
Settings’ to UNCHECKED.
Output Module Settings for 8-bit YUV422 Export in AE
1. [Optional] – if you are working with an interlaced project and exporting to an interlaced compression type,
please be sure to set the ‘Field Render’ properly in the ‘Render Settings’ of the Render Queue in AE
2. In the ‘Output Module Settings’, please choose ‘QuickTime’ for the format
3. Make sure the Depth is set to ‘Millions of Colors’
4.
Click on the ‘Format Options’ button and the ‘QuickTime Options’ window will pop-up
a. Choose the Calibrated MPEG2-X Create Compression Type that best matches your Composition Settings in
the ‘Video Codec’ drop down menu. (Please see the ‘Overview’ section at the beginning of this chapter to see
what Compression Type matches best with your Composition Settings)
b. Make sure the ‘Quality’ slider is set to the bitrate you wish to encode to
c. Make sure the Width/Height is set to either 1920x1080 or 1280x720 and PAR is at Square Pixels (1.0)
d. Press the ‘Ok’ button in the ‘QuickTime Options’ window and the window will close
5. And you’re ready to render