• Adobe After Effects

  Favorite Animation Export Formats? Best for YouTube?

  Posted by Brent Taylor on June 21, 2015 at 3:37 am

  I’m working on an animation in After Effects. Most of the assets come in from Illustrator.

  In general I’ve been using the Quicktime format and the Animation codec at 100 to export. The files are pretty huge, but if I run them through again in Premiere with the same settings, they get considerably smaller and still look great. The eventual destination is YouTube.

  However, for some reason this one scene I’m working on looks terrible on YouTube. Everything looks like a bad bitmap image. I noticed that this particular scene doesn’t get any smaller when I do the second pass, either. There IS a lot more going on in it than usual.

  Anyhow, does anyone have any suggestions? The video looks fine until it goes to YouTube. Is there another format I should try?

  Adam Videoeditor replied 10 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Adam Videoeditor

  June 23, 2015 at 3:58 pm

  The render settings I use in After Effects are
  Format: H.264
  Profile: Main (Under format options)
  Level: 5.1 (Under format options
  Bitrate Encoding: VBR, 1 Pass
  Target Bitrate: 30
  Maximum bitrate: 50

  In Premiere Pro I use
  Format H.264
  Frame Rate: 29.97
  Aspect: Square Pixels (1.0)
  TV Standard: NTSC
  Profile: Main
  Level: 5.1
  Bitrate Encoding: VBR, 2 pass
  Target Bitrate: 30
  Maximum Bitrate: 50
  Audio Codec: AAC
  Sample Rate: 48000
  Bitrate 192

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