• Adobe After Effects

  Compression?

  Posted by Sahaba on June 5, 2005 at 9:38 pm

  Hi Everyone. This is my very first post here in this forum, looks like there are so many pros here.

  I’m not one of them or even close to them, so easy on me everyone!!

  I’m learning After Effects now for over a month, and I can publish a movie, but I just cant find where “compressing” a movie comes in, in order to give it a smaller file size. Like in photoshop “save for web” , is there an option in After Effects to choose the quality of your final result?

  Thanks guys!!

  Steve Roberts replied 20 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 5 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  June 5, 2005 at 10:28 pm

  Basically, you choose composition>make movie. This opens the render queue. The render settings determine how the raw frames are rendered, then the output module settings determine how they are compressed, and to which format they are rendered.

  “Best Settings” and “Lossless” are just templates, containing certain settings for the Render Settings and the Output Module. You can change the settings at any time and make your own templates through the preferences, under templates, if I recall.

  Reckless generalization of codecs and their delivery platforms:
  -web: quicktime Sorenson 3 or Windows Media 7 or 9.
  -CD-ROM: same.
  -Hard drive playback: Photo-JPEG
  -DV tape: DV
  -Transferring between apps: Quicktime Animation or Photo-JPEG, or lossless AVI if necessary.

  Hope that helps,
  Steve
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  Sahaba

  June 6, 2005 at 4:41 am

  Thanks bro for that. It was helpful.

  Just a question… so Sorenson 3 or Windows Media 7 or 9 will give the lowest final file sizes??

  thanks!!
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  Steve Roberts

  June 6, 2005 at 5:01 am

  Well, I like Sorenson Pro 3 for Quicktime — you have to actually buy it. All the Apple Trailers were done with it, though maybe there’s something new. Apple’s new H.264 seems like the shiznit, but I believe it requires QT 7 to play … a version which is best avoided right now, or so I hear. Try searching the COW on it.

  Windows Media gives surprisingly (to me) good quality on Windows boxes. There is pretty good flexiblity when encoding WM from AE on Windows. Good for client tests.

  When encoding to the web, it all depends on your audience: designers like to view Quicktime, clients like to view Windows Media. Another reckless generalization. 🙂

  Hope that helps,
  Steve
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  Sahaba

  June 6, 2005 at 5:25 pm

  Just another question.. you mentioned that designers like to view quicktime. Why is that??
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  Steve Roberts

  June 6, 2005 at 6:04 pm

  I said it was a reckless generalization … 🙂

  Avoiding the platform issue, maybe it’s because Windows Media Player doesn’t seem to let you pause, scrub and search a clip. At least I haven’t figured out a way to do it yet …

  Steve

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