• Adobe After Effects

  opinions about something

  Posted by Rick Neely on October 8, 2007 at 11:21 am

  Hi,

  quick opinions from some experts. I’m rendering out some high res animations for a conference. I’m just using the lossless preset which the client is happy with although a pretty big file as a result. But for good measure, what is the best comparative animation codec that will keep a good high res look but smaller file size in case I want to ftp.

  specs for comp are as follows

  1725×768
  30 fps
  progressive

  What do people suggest? H.264? Sorenson? Sorenson 3? Motion JPEG? It does need to be a more common quicktime codec, so no avid or divx. thanks in advance.

  Rick

  Steve Roberts replied 18 years, 7 months ago 3 Members · 5 Replies
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  Rick Neely

  October 8, 2007 at 12:02 pm

  turns out my client prefers wmvs so I’ll be using flip4mac instead,

  but this brings up another question. To avoid ‘double export’ (render to QT, then to wmv) Is there a way to either:

  render in AE render queue using flip4mac to make wmv?

  or

  render QT reference in AE which saves time then I export out of QT play pro with Flip4mac?

  Thanks again!

  Rick
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  Steve Roberts

  October 8, 2007 at 12:35 pm

  I’m not on the machine with Flip4mac right now, but if I recall, Flip4mac works under the File>Export menu. You should be able to Export directly to WMV that way.

  Stuff under that menu is usually created using methods unavailable in the render queue, such as SWF or AVI, and WMV qualifies on Mac.
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  John Dickinson

  October 8, 2007 at 8:24 pm

  I suggest H264, even at higher settings you’ll get comparatively small files which look great.

  JD

  John Dickinson
  Motionworks
  http://www.motionworks.com.au
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  Rick Neely

  October 8, 2007 at 9:35 pm

  OK,

  Client wants both QT (animation) and WMV. Here’s my problem–

  Comps are 1725×768. I’ve been creating these via a powerpc dual 1.8 with ae7 and 2gb ram. Client has signed off on my smaler wmvs and now I need to ouput the full thing at full res and size. Plus I got moved to another machine that is better, an intel quad coreduo (3 gh) and 4gb rma with ae 7 (with xserve). I moved the whole project over, open upand setup the queue. It renders 6 second or so and then either crashes or says it failed due to inability to create image buffers (gives me 1920×1080, 3500×1600 and so forth).

  ANY SUGGESTIONS??? I have 24 hours to resolve this but I really ned any help right away. Open to anything. Codec change, resetting ram (how to do?) trashing preferences. I just can’t re-install the software.

  Thanks!!
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  Steve Roberts

  October 9, 2007 at 1:06 am

  I used to get that a few times with v6 and 6.5 . I’m not sure what version you’re using, but updating to the dot release up from that might help. At least, closing and relaunching AE got rid of the error for a while.

  Sorry, but aside from updating or relaunching, I haven’t heard of any fixes to that one. It might have been a bug.

  Anybody else?

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