• Adobe After Effects

  What format to export to

  Posted by Westfield60 on May 25, 2007 at 6:00 pm

  I have a real simple problem. I purchased a 20 second background loop (30fps, 75MB Quicktime file) which I imported into After Effects and then added a simple text on top of that which stays visible for the entire 20 second. I think this is as simple and plain as it can get. The problem is when I export the file to a quicktime I got a 2.5GB file which stalled during playback. When I exported to some other format the quality was so bad. Can someone please tell me a setting to use that will give me the maximum quality and smoothest playback on an average PC?

  Thank You for your help

  Pwbeninate replied 18 years, 11 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Kevin Camp

  May 25, 2007 at 8:40 pm

  try photojpeg. its a good quality codec.

  as far as the compression settings for your drive’s data rate cpu’s speed, experiment a little.

  Kevin Camp
  Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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  Pwbeninate

  May 28, 2007 at 12:52 pm

  I’ve found it best to always render from AE using the default “Lossless” settings and then do the encoding (usually to PhotoJPEG or H.264) in Quicktime. It’s really just my personal preference, but it seems to work very well.

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