mp4 renders in small dimensions

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Hey Lee, my plain guess is that once rendered, you preview video in your viewer at a higher/stretched resolution. As for this reason, it looks less sharp.

If thats not the case, then I suggest to sharing a sample clip.

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[Lee Montgomery]

Thanks for that Tomas.

This is the original:

And this is the small render:

[Lee Montgomery]

That’s just showing Unsupported plug-ins…

Screen grabs of still in AE:

Still after render:

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Lee – could you make a screenshot of your render profile’s, Render Settings module with settings revealed?

CS6 was long back in the days – I assume Adobe Media Encoder was not yet bundled together with AE?

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[Lee Montgomery]

Hi Tomas,

CS6 does appear to have Media Encoder, but I haven’t managed to launch it yet.

I’ve been using Handbrake in the meantime and getting improved results.

These are my Render Settings screenshots:

[Tomas Bumbulevičius]

Lee – the only thing within AE I can think of is changing Quicktime to other format – as .mov with H.264 tend to cause problems as an obsolete codec of choice.

Looking at CS6 profiles – choose H.264 and render it to .mp4. Alternatively, you can do it lossless and then encode with Handbrake.

On a different note – sending it to AME and rendering as H.264 to .mp4 could be other way around.

Let us know how it turns out to be – but I have a feeling its due to Quicktime 🙂

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[Lee Montgomery]

That’s great Tomas, I’ll try that. Quicktime seems to present itself as the default. Perhaps it was back in the days of CS6.

Thank you for taking the time.

Lee