• Adobe After Effects

  Non-standard frame encoding

  Posted by Scott Inukai on January 30, 2010 at 8:30 pm

  I’m trying to encode/compress a non-standard frame size (1538w x 32h) for a client proof out of AE CS4. I used to be able to do a windows media file but it seems with the new version of encoder I can’t change the frame size to something so far from standard.

  Any suggestions?

  Walter Soyka replied 16 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Todd Kopriva

  January 31, 2010 at 12:15 pm

  You could create a movie in a different format—such as QuickTime or AVI (Video for Windows)—that doesn’t have such constraints on frame dimensions.

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  Walter Soyka

  January 31, 2010 at 12:27 pm

  Not all codecs allow arbitrary frame sizes; many use blocks of a certain size (for example, 8×8) and require that your video frame be an even multiple of the block size.

  You could export a lossless AVI from AE and try one of Microsoft’s free encoders; alternately, you might letterbox or pillarbox your output for client review purposes into a standard frame size.

  The COW also has a Compression techniques forum, where you might be able to find some help.

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