• Adobe After Effects

  does it take more time to render out a targa sequence than a quicktimemovie?

  Posted by Jakob Thommessen on February 3, 2006 at 12:37 pm

  when you have 1 hour left before you have to present a movie made in After effects consisting of lots of layers, what do you do? What format would be the best to choose as output. (the files for online we can do later, this is to give a god preview)

  Jakob Thommessen replied 20 years, 3 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Steve Roberts

  February 3, 2006 at 1:11 pm

  I hope that hour hasn’t passed …

  Really, I think the difference is negligible. There may be a small amount of extra time taken to compress the QT (if it’s not Animation codec) but in the case of the TGA sequence, you’ll have to also convert the TGA sequence to something God can take back to his laptop and play, yes? That would be an extra step.

  (no disrespect meant)

  The time is taken in the rendering of the frames before the conversion to the output format. So the best way to save time would be to render at half-res and half the frame rate in the Render Settings. It’ll mean you’re rendering fewer pixels and fewer frames. If you want to check, do a test, but that’s what my experience has shown.

  Steve
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  Jakob Thommessen

  February 4, 2006 at 3:45 pm

  Thank you Steve,
  I have done a few tests now and it seems that QT Animation is the fastest one ( at least the one I tried) tga. sequence is a little bit slower, but it’s desimal.
  The deadline went fine by the way.

  Jakob

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