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Activity Forums Adobe After Effects Why my rendered 10 seconded 500×300 pixel (avi) 116MB? how do i make it smaller?

  • Brian Charles

    February 3, 2007 at 8:18 pm

    What compression did you use? Try another one. I

    generally output to QuickTime rather than avi.

    The Animation codec will produce the largest file size since it is uncompressed. The compression scheme you select depends on the destination for your file.

    If you want a small file size and high fidelity H264 is your best choice. Be aware that any compression can introduce artifacts and color shifts.

  • Electricsashimi

    February 3, 2007 at 10:15 pm

    How do i compress the video when I render in after effects?

  • Steve Roberts

    February 3, 2007 at 11:01 pm

    Use the render queue and pick a codec in the output module. Check the manual.

  • Dommafia

    February 5, 2007 at 7:11 pm

    There’s a great FREE utility that let’s you compress your audio and video to whatever settings you’d like. The way i use it is:

    1. Make my render in after effects lossless (big size, high quality)
    2. Open my render in Virtuadub and save new copies of it at different compression ratios for the video and audio.
    3. Decide which settings gives the best compression to quality ratio and delete the other copies.

    I hope this helps.

    VirtualDub: https://www.virtualdub.org/download

  • Electricsashimi

    February 6, 2007 at 2:20 am

    Thx for helping me out, but i used a video converter and converted the avi to avi. Turns out that the 116mb turned to 3 mb. Wow!!

    I couldn’t see any change in the quality.

    Hope this helps other people having this problem

  • Dommafia

    February 6, 2007 at 11:28 am

    That’s what virtualdub is, a video and audio converter. I’m glad you found a solution 😀

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