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  • rendering quality

    Posted by Fabricio on September 2, 2007 at 3:49 am

    Hey, what’s up?
    My name is Fabricio, and i am from saint louis in brazil.. i am a real newbie in after effects, but i am really interested in it! anyway, i have a problem here.. i was making a movie for a school project, and i found it really hard to render in a high quality video and audio.. actually.. i never had anyone to teach me, besides the internet, and i don’t have a expensive material to make my movies, that’s why i really need your help, i was trying to render some stuff and the sound didn’t come in it, then i tryed other ways, but i got many fails.. and now i am kindo desperate! could you help me with a way to render with no fails and high quality?… and could you tell me why my videos fail to render sometimes?!

    Steve Roberts replied 18 years, 11 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Steve Roberts

    September 2, 2007 at 12:17 pm

    Did you use an Output Module that includes audio? (look in the manual)

    Regarding high quality, it depends on what you want to do with the file at the end of the project.

    Play on a hard drive? Try rendering to the Photo-JPEG codec.
    Play on the web? Try rendering to Sorenson at a smaller size and lower frame rate.
    Play on DVD? Render a DV-sized composition to the Animation codec, then take into a DV Authoring application for compression to MPEG-2 before burning to DVD.

    For more info on rendering to codecs, look in the manual regarding rendering and output module.

  • Fabricio

    September 2, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    thanks for the answer but why do i get the fails in rendering?

  • Steve Roberts

    September 2, 2007 at 2:24 pm

    What happened when the render failed?

    What was the error message, if any?

    Did you have enough hard drive space?

    Did you run out of RAM?
    (to check, do the render again with your system’s monitor open (on Windows, Task Manager, on OSX, Activity Monitor)
    If you ran out of RAM, go to the Secret Preferences and set it to purge every 15 frames during Make Movie. (hold down the shift key while selecting edit>preferences>general — only release the shift key when the preferences dialog box appears)

    Tell us what happens.

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