• Adobe After Effects

  best way to output this comp

  Posted by Alistair Chisholm on November 18, 2005 at 10:44 am

  I have my main comp which is 4:30 mins long. The resolution is 1024×576. I am wanting to output this so it will run continously in a loop (using something like windows media player) on a Pc as part of a window display. I therefore need maximum resolution and quality, but also not a ridiculously large file that might make it stutter on the average Pc.

  Any advice?

  Cheers
  Alistair

  Michael Szalapski replied 20 years, 9 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  November 18, 2005 at 2:19 pm

  The Windows Media Codec (WM9?) is surprisingly nice and playable, but if I recall, you can only render it from AE on Windows. Probably AE 6.5.

  And test it on the playback PC. Test early, test often.

  Steve
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  Michael Szalapski

  November 18, 2005 at 3:12 pm

  Halving the frame rate always helps too. 15 fps isn’t too bad on a computer. It kinda depends on the computer it will be playing on. For example, the computer I’m typing on right now would in no way handle full-screen full-frame video playback. The one just down the corridor, on the other hand, can deal with it just fine.

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