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Exporting/Rendering at 16:10
Hi,
Basically for a college project i created a spaceman animation, about 5 and a half minutes long. Since i love space art i used a large number of high quality backgrounds in my animation. Since my monitor is 1920×1200 all the backgrounds are the same resolution. I need a codec that will export my animation at 1920×1200 without sacrificing too much image quality. i cant go back and resize them as i simply dont have time. The codec must support this resolution. so far the only codec that seems to support it is AVI, the others just lock at 1920×1080. It also needs to compress, the 1000 mb/s data rate of my last attempt is a tad excessive 🙁I am currently on a windows but the video will be played back on both windows and mac only, its not going to DVD or on the web. i have both After Effects and Media Encoder.
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Render out a master to AVI-Lossless master. Drag that into Media Encoder and now you can experiment a bit. I’d try creating a Quicktime then open up the “preset” side and select H.264 as your codec. I just tried a quick test and it’s working for me.
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[Joshua Ralph] “I need a codec that will export my animation at 1920×1200 without sacrificing too much image quality.”
Many codecs support non-standard resolutions. For the built-in Adobe (MainConcept) H.264 codec go to Basic Video Settings and first set the Level to 5.0 or 5.1; lower levels do not support 1200p. Then input the desired resolution.
Note that these videos don’t always play well on Macs. The QuickTime H.264 codec is a better choice for cross-platform compatibility. Another alternative is to render an intermediate file and then transcode to MP4/H.264 using QuickTime Pro.
[Joshua Ralph] “It also needs to compress, the 1000 mb/s data rate of my last attempt is a tad excessive :(“
H.264 will probably be the best codec for your needs. The specific export settings will depend on your bitrate requirements. Max quality requires about 3 bpp; YouTube uses less than 0.1 bpp. That correlates to a range of about 5-158 mbps for a 1920×1200 video at 24fps. What is your desired average bitrate?
A high bitrate VC-1/WMV video will produce slightly better quality than H.264, but I don’t know whether the wmv file will play on Macs. Use the free version of Microsoft Expression Encoder 4 if you would like to try VC-1.
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