• Adobe After Effects

  Rendering to WMV

  Posted by Ari Grunzeweig on March 13, 2010 at 8:20 pm

  Hi,

  I’d like to find the most convenient way to do the following.
  I have many comps of about 5300×1080 (approx)

  I need to render them out, each into three videos of 1920×1080. They will be played by three side by side projectors using a watchout system.

  Is there a way to do this in one render step out of after effects into 3 wmv files?
  WMV export seems unavailable in the render queue, and only in the export file-export. However, in this way, there is no cropping option.

  So what is my best plan here?

  Thanks in advance,
  Ari

  Walter Soyka replied 16 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Walter Soyka

  March 14, 2010 at 7:00 pm

  Instead of using Crop on output, you could create a series of 1920×1080 compositions, one for each Watchout display, each of which contains only your main 5300×1080 comp, repositioned to re-create the crops.

  However, I recommend against going directly to WMV from After Effects. AE is incapable of multi-pass compression, which creates cleaner output. I always render to a lossless format and then handle compression in a third-party application.

  Walter Soyka
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