• Adobe After Effects

  Exporting flv

  Posted by Tony Moale on June 2, 2008 at 2:16 am

  I have made a video in after effects and when i render out it is 410 MB. I have to bring it into flash so that i can control it but when i do some shapes are jagged because of compression, and it ruins the video without the sharp images. does anyone have any suggentions on exproting to flv direct from AF or another way around i.. thanks for the help

  tony

  Chris Wright replied 17 years, 11 months ago 5 Members · 5 Replies
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  Simon Dunn

  June 2, 2008 at 10:21 am

  Simply click File>Export and choose Flash Video.
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  Michael Gossen

  June 2, 2008 at 7:59 pm

  Look into Perian. It is a great QT component that also gives good results straight in any QT app.

  Michael Gossen
  Helium Digital Media
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  Tony Moale

  June 2, 2008 at 8:54 pm

  Thanks in advance for the replies. I knew of the exporting to flv straight from Af but I’m really bothered by the end result of a certain shape that was created in AF. If I render queue out of AF the movie is flawless.(this is a 410MB file) I understand that there is compression involved and that is why my result is the way it is when exporting to flv. It just seems like the shape should not become this jagged. I just thought mabey there was some type of “workaround” to beat the nastiness of compression. it’s a .mov 410 MB to flv 2.9 MB. I jsut don’t want it to compress so much, I can deal with it being as big as 30 MB

  Thanks for all the help!
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  Jeremy Allen

  June 3, 2008 at 1:28 am

  Well, first of all, if you don’t like how compressed it is, don’t compress it so much. Change the bit rate settings until you get something you like. 3Mb sounds highly compressed to me. If you can deal with a 30MB file size, you should be able to get a lot more quality out of the compression.

  Secondly, Flash player 9 and above will now support playback of the H264 codec. To my eyes, H264 is far superior over FLV as far as the compression/filesize ratio. So if you can publish to Flash 9, that may be an option for you.

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  Chris Wright

  June 3, 2008 at 2:58 am

  It’s all about bitrate vs resolution. You can have a high resolution with low bitrate which would actually look better if low res with high bitrate. Pixel to noise ratio determines jaggies. Try a good deinterlace method then sorenson squeeze. It does the half framerate trick which makes the file size so small, you can stream fluid video with 256kbps slow DSL and it still looks fantastic, no jaggies.

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