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Export settings in AE
I’m creating templates in After Effects for my website, but I’m having a hard time getting high quality files that will play on my website without stopping to buffer. The AE projects I’m creating are 1080 24P and I have been exporting them with the render queue to .WMV files scaled down to 592×332 with the following settings:
Format: windows media
Embed: Project link
Post-Render Action: None
Video Codec: WMV9 Advanced profile
Bitrate Mode: Constant
Frame Rate: same as source
Pixel Aspect Ratio: Square Pixels
Max bitrate: 600kbps
Image Quality:65
Keyframe interval 4seconds
Buffer Size: 1 SecondI have a dual core processor 2.4Ghz and 4 gigs of ram, but its taking about three hours to render a 3 minute .wmv file.
Any suggestions for better settings, would I get better results using something other than .wmv
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3 Replies
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If you select “Third” res, instead of Full Res in your render settings, you will get a frame size of 640×360.
The render is taking forever because of the resize from 1080p to 592×332 has to be calculated for every frame.
Quarter res would give you 480×270 frame size. (Rendering every 4th pixel, rather than scaling the image)
You could get away with 200-250kbps/sec, depending on how action packed the animation is. Try compressing as hard/low as you can first, to get an acceptable movie which streams well online, then use those settings. Try this with a 10second clip rather than the whole thing.
Good old trial and error…
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[Guy Thompson] “Good old trial and error…”
True, but exporting out of AE would be my last choice for attempting to control the experiments. Make your movie in AE, use a dedicated encoding system to create your web-friendly files.
As Guy, notes, there are tradeoffs you must make between all of the available parameters in order to achieve your compromise between file size and quality. There are factors you cannot control such as the end-to-end delivery speed of your viewers.
bogiesan
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Thanks guys, this information has saved me so much time. Up until now I have been working with SD resolution output to DVD, so I haven’t had to change resolution. This is very helpful thank you.
-Kurt
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