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Best output / compression settings for After Effects
Anyone know of a resource for render / compression settings out of After Effects? I’m looking for more info on keyframing and data rate limits, specifically the best output settings for Animation, DV, H.264, the whole output drop-down list. I’m really hoping for chart form for an easy read. Suggestions?
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Like Dave said, there is no “best” compression setting. Your compression settings will be determined by your delivery requirements.
With that in mind, AE has many strengths, but compression is not among them. It is not capable of multi-pass encoding, which is critical for quality output with highly-compressed, variable bit-rate encodes. I tend to render to lossless image sequences or lossless Animation in AE, and then use a third-party compression utility. There are many contenders here: Compressor, Episode, Squeeze, ProCoder, etc.
Walter Soyka, Principal
Keen Live, Inc.
Presentation, Motion Graphics & Widescreen Design
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heres a nice little article i know of that goes a little in depth of each compression. hope this helps
https://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/in-depth/the-after-effects-output-module-exposed/#more-1886
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May the only one “universal best compression” is “AVI or QT uncompressed” ^^
CÁMERA: JVC GYHD251+BR-HD100
VTR: JVC BR-HD50
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Animation: try just below 100%.
DV: I thought there were no choices …?
Photo-JPEG: move the slider off 100% — it usually stops aroun 89-91%.
TGA: leave it alone.As for anything else like H.264, the other gents are right: don’t use AE. AE is good for rendering to high-quality, then you use something like Sorenson or Compressor to do the 2-pass encoding.
Speaking of which, compression is considered an art, and if you want to learn more, look on the Compression techniques COW.
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Actually, that article has quite a few problems.
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