• Adobe After Effects

  Huge, Way to HUGE .mov

  Posted by Michael Patterson on September 20, 2011 at 6:12 am

  I have a video (slide Show) of pictures and Green Screened footage. That I would like to upload to youtube. However every time I render something from AE it come out very large. The video I’m currently working on, after rendering came out to be over 17g. I then exported it with quicktime and it was just over 300 mb’s. but you can really see the quality loss.

  How should I be rendering out of AF if the video is intended for internet?

  Thanks, Michael Patterson .

  Todd Kopriva replied 14 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Tudor “ted” jelescu

  September 20, 2011 at 11:52 am

  You do not render out of AE for internet. Open your AE project in Adobe Media Encoder (under File) and select the comp you want rendered. Choose a preset – .flv, .f4v or H264 (all work for YouTube or Vimeo or the net in general) and render from there. Since you already have a rendered file (the 17 Gb one) take that in Encoder and compress to one of the above mentioned formats.

  Tudor “Ted” Jelescu
  Senior VFX Artist
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  Todd Kopriva

  September 20, 2011 at 2:10 pm

  Tudor is right about using Adobe Media Encoder encoding presets for web output. Render and export a losslessly encoded movie out of After Effects and then use Adobe Media Encoder to create the compressed final delivery files.

  See these FAQ items:

  “FAQ: Why is my output file huge…?”

  “FAQ: How do I export a movie for YouTube, Vimeo…?”

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