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AE to Keynote
sorry if this seems like to basic a question, but here goes. I’ll be doing some AE work this evening for a presentation that will eventually be done in Keynote. Anyone work with the two programs?
I’m just wondering if there are any tips or settings, size limitations, etc that might be useful before rendering out my comps in AE. I know my way around AE, but have little experience with Keynote. never was a boy scout but I guess I just want to prepared before I’m thrown into the fire.
Thanks in advance!
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My recommendation would be to render out from After Effects as an image sequence (I choose Targa sequences). I then use QuickTime Pro to open the image sequence and export it out as an MP4 using the H.264 codec. I have not had success trying to render directly out to H.264 compressed output from AE, but the flexibility of working with image sequences is preferable anyway. QuickTime MP4 files compressed with H.264 are a great fit with Mac OS X. Depending on the target machine that will be playing back the Keynote presentation, you can have large files (1024 x 768 for example) and use high bit-rates (2k/s, 3k/s, 4k/s, etc.) for very high-quality video.
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My recommendation would be to render out from After Effects as an image sequence (I choose Targa sequences). I then use QuickTime Pro to open the image sequence and export it out as an MP4 using the H.264 codec. I have not had success trying to render directly out to H.264 compressed output from AE, but the flexibility of working with image sequences is preferable anyway. QuickTime MP4 files compressed with H.264 are a great fit with Mac OS X. Depending on the target machine that will be playing back the Keynote presentation, you can have large files (1024 x 768 for example) and use high bit-rates (2k/s, 3k/s, 4k/s, etc.) for very high-quality video.
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keynote is actually quite amazing. i just finished a show that was 3840×720 projected onto 3 screens over 40 feet wide. it was played back live from keynote on the mac. i rendered one 10 gig 3840×720 square pixel movie from afx in animation codec then exported it from qtime pro as h264 at best quality. looked great, worked fine, very moderate file size. btw, they also used the apple pro-rez codec to play back other movies of the same 3840×720 dimension from keynote. it would be nice to do it, but i wasn’t able to successfully export or render h264 directly from afx at those dimensions.
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I’ve run into goofiness when trying to compress on top of Animation compressed QuickTime files, so I would recommend rendering as a raw image sequence or else an “uncompressed” QuickTime movie and then compress into MP4 with the H.264 codec. Just my opinion.
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thanks for the tips, I REALLY appreciate it!
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