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Extremely large file size, is this right??
Okay I have made a 2minute clip that is being rendered out at 1024×768. It is being rendered in quicktime, then will be brought into sorenson compression suite and converted to .flv and brought into flash. Now from there it will be exported as a project file for use in a presentation for a tradeshow booth. It will be displayed on 2 17 LCD flatpanel monitors and will be looping. My question is right now out of AE the quicktime is a whopping 7.93 gb. Is this right for a 2 minute clip of this size? Is 1024×768 overkill? Any advice or how – to’s to manage file size?
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What codec are you using? Uncompressed? Animation?
But aside from storage concerns, you don’t really need to care how big the file is in the intermediate stage — you need to care how big it is after you compress to flv format.
How big is it after it is compressed to FLV?
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Yes at the moment it is Uncompressed Animation (Quicktime). I am going to compress it with FLV shortly. Will post my results. Should I have used a compression method prior to exporting .flv? BTW the Quicktime is alot smaller thatn the .avi.
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Hmm … nobody (that I know of) uses uncompressed Quicktime, actually. Animation is the codec of choice for intermediate files, since it gives you a beautiful video. At 100% quality, it is lossless. Check out Codec Central.
Do a test render of a few seconds of your comp using uncompressed, and using Animation. Compare the file sizes, then to compare the compression, drag them both into a comp, and set the mode of the upper test to “difference”. You should see black. If it’s completely black, there is no difference. If you can’t see any artifacts in the black … then you won’t be able to see a difference between the two. You can also play them separately or do whatever you need to compare the two. I suspect you’ll choose Animation.
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Actually I just checked the settings and the default was animation, which is where I left it. The end QT file was 2.32gb, which sorensen squeezed down to 16mb (WOW). But I am going to play with the squeeze settings a little bit more. Thanks for the tips on checking the compression.
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Glad it’s working out. 🙂
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yeah. 2-4 GB sounds right for an animation that length. The maximum space 1 minute of uncompressed video should take up is roughly 1.8 GB.
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