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OpenEXR sequence – animation, presets?
Dear All,
I’m rendering openEXR files in C4D and composing them in an openEXR sequence in AFX. The workflow in AFX works good, except for the rendering. AME is mostly not working and crashing while trying to open the file. So I usually do it directly in the Render Queue.
Do to the fact, that openEXR files are huge in size by default, do you have any ideas how I can simplify my output settings? Usually a 6sec animation counts around 150 pictures à 10-16mb per pic, rendering it out to .mov shrinks it to a 100-200mb file. I don’t want to loose quality when uploading it somewhere, too.
I’d appreciate any tips and tricks. Thank you!
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7 Replies
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Have you tried outputting to h.264? I don’t know what your material looks like or how high the quality needs to be – but I’ve found that 3-6 Mbps gives me small file sizes with reasonable quality. On the rare occasion that I need higher quality, 8-12 Mbps usually does the trick.
Shawn
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These are the options I’m getting in AFX (working on osX). Apple isn’t supporting quicktime, so I’ve read on their page, that I could use Go Pro Fine. Still no possibility to output it in h.264, I can only set up the quality. There is also the suggestion to open the AFX file in Premiere, but it isn’t working all the time. I’ll give it a try. What I’m doing right now is, that I’m converting it online to mpg4, and that is something I really don’t wanna do. The online converters, that I’m using, aren’t offering Mbps settings. I’m still in trial of how I can deal with it. I’ll find a solution, for sure. Thank you very much. 🙂
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Hi, Göknur. Apologies, I should have been more clear. You have to send your project to Adobe Media Encoder to get h.264 encoding options. 🙂
Shawn
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Hi Shawn, no worries, AME is mostly not opening or if so, crashing plenty of times. I’ll give it another try. Thank you! 🙂
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I’m sorry to hear that! Maybe export to Prores422 and encode with another application? I use Davinci Resolve when I have issues with AME.
Shawn
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That sounds like a plan, I’ll work on that. DaVinci will solve it. 🤩
Göknur
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😃
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