MPEG2 Rendering

[stitch_uk]

Hi,

I have created a 6 second Animation background (in Adobe After Effects) which I am going to loop. I have Rendered this file to a Quicktime Movie at full quality and it's currently around 100Mb and looks crisp and high quality.

My question is what is the best way to render this to a MPEG2 file while keeping the quality high? What settings should I be checking?

I'm currently using Sony Vegas to convert the .MOV file to MPEG2 however the final file is only about 3Mb in size and the quality looks like a compressed JPEG even on Best Quality.

Could someone please point me in the right direction on the best way to render MPEG2 files for my DVDs?

Many thanks,
Richard.

[SLK001]

I usually export the video as individual bitmaps (at about 1 MEG each), then import them into Premiere. I then use the Premiere MPEG2 plugin to convert.

That's one thing that I don't like about AfterEffects - no native MPEG2 encoder. It can't even use Premiere plugins.

You can also frameserve the images using AVISYNTH's IMAGEREADER command.