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RENDERING- Good Quality Small File Size
All of my renderd projects are a bit big in file size, is there a way or program to lessen this drasticley and still keep good quality?
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3 Replies
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Check out the Compression Techniques COW, as this is a codec question, not an AE question.
Once they advise you on a codec, you go back to AE, choose “make movie” for your comp, then choose the recommended codec in the Output Module.
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Whenever you compress something you’re going to lose quality (unless it’s lossless compression, which doesn’t compress your file very much). H.264/AVC is a good codec (it’s what is being used for most HD/Blu-ray DVDs) for quality:file size ratio but you’ll still lose quality.
Depending on where your video is headed I’d recommend H.264 (Web, HD-DVD), MPEG-2 (DVD) or Uncompressed (Anything Else).
Note that you can change the data rate of most compression codecs. Higher data rate = bigger file but generally better quality.
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for the mac and quicktime i’m a big fan of the h264 codec, at high to best quality i can’t really see a difference from the animation source movie even with motion graphics, and the file sizes are amazing for the quality. it’s especially handy when i need a source clip from someone to be posted on ftp or idisk. once you get it downloaded export it out of qtime pro to a lossless codec and continue working with it in afx as needed.
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