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Rendering WMF
I am relatively new to this so please bare with me. I’m trying to render an 8-minute video out of AE 6.5 as a .wmf. Because of the length, it’s hard to keep it under 8 MB without losing so much quality. I’ve tried using different presets and even customizing the settings but I’m not getting the result that I want. I’ve seen long videos with excellent quality before, so I know it can be done. Please help.
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5 Replies
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I advise that you render uncompressed from AE, then compress the video with sorenson squeeze or cleaner.
One meg per minute seems very ambitous, but may be possible if you scale the size down, and can live with a little artifacting. I assume this is for streaming on the internet? -
Thank you for the advice. I will check out Sorenson Squeeze and Cleaner. If I scale the video down, should I scale it in AE’s timeline window, render window, or Sorenson? Thanks again for the tip.
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Scale in Cleaner or Sorenson
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After Effects never gets good compression rates, I like to think that because it’s concentrating on a frame at a time it cannot compress between frames. Decent compression usually takes more than one pass which after effects could not do. I find it’s always best to render uncompressed from After Effects, or at the worst photo jpeg if I’m running out of space.
I’ve had decent results with the free windows media encoder, maybe you should give that a shot. I like Canopus Procoder too, although Squeeze is worth the price for the pro version of the sorenson codec alone.
Glenn Stewart
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Thank you both for responding to my question. I really appreciate it. I will look into windows media encoder and Canopus Procoder as well.
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