• Adobe After Effects

  How to export a master?

  Posted by Jerry Smith on October 27, 2016 at 9:03 pm

  I have some videos that are quite simple, but very sharp. For the purposes of this thread, you can imagine that they are all created a few solid shapes, a few solid colors, and text. They look very sharp. There is just a little motion blur here and there. All were created with 8 bpc.

  I would like to export the videos and have masters and then do any future encoding from those masters and not have to open AE.

  I don’t care about file size AT ALL.

  Here’s what I’m thinking of using:

  Format: QuickTime
  Video Codec: Animation
  Quality: 100
  Render at Maximum Depth
  Depth: 32
  Key frame every 1 frame.
  Use Maximum Render Quality

  These are the video settings for the preset that I made in AME.

  I can handle the audio settings I think.

  What do you think of those settings? If I hadn’t synced up the audio in AE, I would have probably looked into using a sequence.

  Are these settings 100% lossless? My typography and edges are perfect and for the purposes of this thread are my main concern.

  Thanks.

  Walter Soyka replied 9 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jerry Smith

  October 27, 2016 at 9:05 pm

  All my edges were created with pixel perfection in Photoshop for example. And I want to preserve those for posterity without having to open AE again.
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  Jerry Smith

  October 27, 2016 at 9:10 pm

  Thanks Dave.

  Why do they call the codec “Animation”?

  Is it saving a my color hexes for each pixel? That’s really what I want.
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  Eric Santiago

  October 28, 2016 at 12:28 pm

  [Dave LaRonde] “The codec has been called “Animation” ever since I started working in digital video in 1995, and doubtlessly before that.
  I suppose they could have called it “Clarence”, but that doesn’t sound serious enough, I guess.”

  LOL!

  I beat you by one year (1994).

  Yes that codec option has been around for a long time but I do recall reading a book from Trish Meyer that Animation was geared towards RGB colors such as cel, vector drawn types basically solid colors.

  Its been years so I would have to dig up book.

  I am sure someone here knows the answer 🙂
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  Walter Soyka

  October 31, 2016 at 1:17 pm

  [Eric Santiago] “Yes that codec option has been around for a long time but I do recall reading a book from Trish Meyer that Animation was geared towards RGB colors such as cel, vector drawn types basically solid colors. Its been years so I would have to dig up book. I am sure someone here knows the answer :)”

  As Dave describes, it uses something called “run length encoding.” Basically, when you have a “run” of, say, 100 pixels of pure red, Animation/RLE encoding says “100*[255,0,0]” instead of “[255,0,0],[255,0,0],[255,0,0],[255,0,0],[255,0,0][255,0,0],[255,0,0],…”

  Because RLE compresses runs of color, it’s especially suitable to cel animation with large areas of pure, flat color.

  Walter Soyka
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  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
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