• Adobe After Effects

  Rendering Question

  Posted by Marley Bishop on October 27, 2008 at 3:25 am

  I want to know why.. I import a file that’s 54 megabytes, add one blood effect and a muzzle flash effect, render it on lossless setting, and it’s 5 f***ing gigabytes

  Simon Bonner replied 17 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Simon Bonner

  October 27, 2008 at 10:49 am

  That’s normal. Lossless is, well, lossless. It’s uncompressed. The file you imported is likely to be compressed – is it mpeg or something like that?

  If you’re planning to do more editing etc with the footage you’ve rendered out, it’s a good idea to render it out lossless (or use photo jpeg at best settings). That way you won’t be compressing over and over. Or, if your render is intended to be a final render, use a compressed codec like h.264, mpeg or divx.

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