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rendering & codecs – newbie
Hi all,
I am an animation student working on a project.
The thing is i need to know the best settings to export an AE composition. Best in terms of quantity plus quality. i have tried the quicktime animation compression but it gives me a rather large output file size.
And i have committed a mistake of making my backgrounds in PS at a foolishly high resolution of 1920×1440.
My bg are done in PS and i have scanned my character and animated in AE.all my shots have already been animated so now the exporting is a problem and i am confused wit the codecs.
and if i may ask can anyone suggest me a way to change the resolution of the composition from 1920×1440 to a smaller more convinient one.
i am a newbie so pls bear if some of the questions are rather naive..
thankyou…
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4 Replies
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Making your composition smaller would cause you a lot of work because you’d also have to resize all of your elements. The easiest thing to do would be to make a new composition the size you wanted for your final output and put your composition in the new one. Then scale it down to fit. That way, all of your animation remains the same, only smaller.
As far as which format you should export it as, that depends on what you want your final output to be. Is it going on a DVD for an SD television? Is it going via a laptop to an HD screen? Without knowing your intended final copy, it’s difficult to suggest a file format.– The Great Szalam
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thanks a lot michael…i am from india..so i guess iwould be using the dv pal format and most probably it will just stay on my harddrive and be played through a projector or be uploaded on sites here and there…
i would just like a nice crisp quality with a decent file size…
i tried the cinepack codec but it gives a certain disturbnce in the video…some blank pixels sorta thing..any solution to clear that out ?…and the quicktime animation codec gives me a rather huge file size…
thanks again…
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I know of very few people who use the Cinepak codec. It usually has that problem you mentioned.
If it’s a Windows-based machine, you can always to an AVI with Microsoft DV. It makes it smaller and it’s not too bad quality-wise. You can even do some WMV (Windows Media Video) that look good and those file sizes are tiny in comparison.
If you’re using a Mac, there are several quicktime options with which you can play. The animation codec is large, but you can lower the quality somewhat which shrinks the file size. I’m not in front of my AE machine at the moment, but I belive there are several other Quicktime options, such as Sorensen 3, that might work for you.– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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thanks a lot michael…i will surely try some of these options that u suggested..i use windows xp by the way…thanks again..
regards…
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