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Best settings to render a 7 minute long slideshow/animation composition?
I just woke up to this huge .mov file with 10Gb. The composition has approximately 7 minutes.
I used the animation codec for quicktime files.
How should I go about this? This can’t be right, there are only 200 photos on that slideshow with lots of animations/transitions.
I actually need a quick solution using the already gigantic file. Maybe rendering that file with new settings will be faster and, hopefully, compress it?Composition settings:
720×480 pixels – D1/DV NTSC Widescreen (1,21)
06m53s
frame rate: 29,97operating system:
OS X
2,66 GHz Intel Core i7
8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 512 MB
AECS6Also, I’ve been using After Effects now for almost 4 years, and the codec / rendering is a process that I’m not too familiar with. Could you guys also point me into a good tutorial or a good read ( explaining with details) about which codecs to use?
Thanks a lot.
Rafael Ribeiro
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7 Replies
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Start with this FAQ entry:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/729526———————————————————————————————————
Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
After Effects quality engineering
After Effects team blog
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If you’re looking for small file size, I would create an H264 file. You can drop your 10GB file into Adobe Media Encoder and choose from their list of web presets to keep it simple.
It’s best to find out if whoever you’re delivering it to has a preference though. Depending what it’s for, there could be specific format requirements. Either way, creating a master Animation file and exporting delivery files from AME is not a bad idea. This way, you can create multiple formats from one file without After Effects having to chug through everything multiple times.
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Dave LaRonde
I have done lots of renders. But mostly for small files ( 30 secs vignettes); so I’d always go with .avi and .mov files that would be 1Gb tops.
Daniel Waldron
I rendered the 10Gb file into a H264 one. It reduced the size to 350Mb. It works for me ( it kept the video quality and a reasonable size).
I guess I need to learn more about codecs and preferences. Usually I don’t have to deal with that with such short videos. Living and learning.
Thanks everyone.
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Originally it is going to be shown in a presentation with a projector in a big screen. After that my client probably wants to upload it to youtube.
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In that case, H264 is a great way to go.
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Great. Thanks a lot for the help!
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Okay. Thanks for the help!
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