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Issues with Rendering
Hi there!
I am relatively new to After Effects and am having issues rendering an animation I have done. My mate suggested that maybe one of you guys will be able to help so here it goes…
I am doing an animation for a client which needs to be rendered as an animated GIF and then also as a Quicktime Movie.
The Composition is set to HDV/HDTV 720 29.7. The frame rate is 29.97 at a resolution of 1280 x 720.
Its an illustrative animation and basically there are a lot of layers using PNGs created in Photoshop.
When i render it out as a Quicktime movie I am using the Animation Codec – the first time I did it it played really jerky and missed out massive chunks of the animation. I thought this maybe because the quality was set to high so turned that down to Medium and it still does it. Then rendered it out as a GIF and in my browser its still jerky…
I am using After Effects 8.0 and my IMac runs Tiger and has 2GB Ram.
Can anyone suggest anything I’m in a total panic…
Many Thanks
Hannah
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1 Reply
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Dave’s right. Such a huge file is a complete misuse of animated GIF.
One thing that springs to mind is that your browser is having to load the _whole movie_ into its allocate RAM to play.
There’s some information about the limitations of animated GIF in the “Creating an animated GIF movie” section of After Effects Help (including the comments at the end).
Here’s a piece:
“To play an animated GIF file, the web browser first loads the entire file into memory and then plays it from memory (not from disk). To prevent excessive delays before playback begins, and to avoid using too much memory, an animated GIF should have a short duration and a low frame rate. Frame rates of 5 frames per second (or less) are recommended, unless the duration is very short (1 second or so).”
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Todd Kopriva, Adobe Systems Incorporated
putting the ‘T’ back in ‘RTFM’ : After Effects Help on the Web
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