• Adobe After Effects

  best codec for video??

  Posted by Katshiva on August 9, 2005 at 5:24 pm

  What’s the best codec for video?

  I have to export my footage which is in H.264 to another codec so my AE 5.0 will be able to read it. I’m running old ae 5.0 w/old quicktime 5.0. Would h.263 be the next best thing? Or animation codec or Mjpeg?

  Katshiva replied 21 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  August 9, 2005 at 7:06 pm

  In your situation, you’re transferring video from one app to another for further rendering. You want an intermediate, low-compression (actually lossless) high-quality codec. Use Quicktime’s Animation codec at 100%.

  Remember, this is not a delivery codec, so it will not play back smoothly on your computer because its compression is so low, and as a result, its data rate is so high. At the end of the project, choose a delivery codec so you can play back the file for your chosen final medium. That could be Sorenson or Windows Media 9 for the web, DV for tape, or a broadcast codec that your editor uses for eventual broadcast (Avid, media 100, Blackmagic, etc.).

  Hope that helps,
  Steve
  P.S. No need to double-post. 🙂
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  Katshiva

  August 9, 2005 at 8:16 pm

  thanks!

  That’s what I’ve been using – the animation codec, but I wasn’t sure what setting I should use for the motion/key frames in QT7? should it be automatic, every or all? I read that it should be none but that was for the old QT5, and this option doesn’t exsist for QT7.

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