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rendering a WINDOWS file from AE Pro (Mac)
I have an animation project in After Effects Pro (on Mac) that needs to be rendered out as a Windows playable file (Windows Media or perhaps MPEG1) so it can play from CD on the lowest common denominator Windows laptop.
Quicktime Sorensen 3 gives me very good results on a Mac but the right to left scrolling text on the animation stutters when played on a windows box. (plus many users of this CD Animation may not have QT installed)
I work on a Mac and can’t render out as these formats. Anyone know how I can accomplish this?
Some sort of downloadable plug in perhaps?Monday morning delivery is looming!
Thanks,
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Your data rate is probably the issue here. Laptops usually have very slow cd/dvd drives so that the stream needs to be less than the drive can read.
So, Does the video need to be full screen. How big IS IT. Have you compressed the audio as well.
An MPG 1 might be a good choice, try limiting the date rate to a little over 1.2 MBybes per second. So audio plus video should be around this number.
If you decide quicktime use the ima 4:1 audio codec for older versions of qtime. limit the data rate of the sorenson 3 to 1000 kb.
If you can use half resolution.
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If you really need to make WMVs on the mac, flip4mac offers a solution, apparently.
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Flip4Mac still won’t let you render out directly from the AE timeline. You should first render out either a frames version at the appropriate frame size to either the QT H264 codec or maybe PhotoJPEG and then take that file and rip a WMV using Flip4Mac without scaling….this has given me the best results.
Rich Rubasch
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Rich,
Thanks for your advice. So if I render out my AE project as a QT Photo-Jpeg MOVIE
then I can import that into Flip4Mac WMV Studio then render the resulting movie as a Windows Media Video file?Is that right? That SHOULD play well on a Windows laptop from a CD?
The piece is 3 minutes long and needs to be 640 x 360 with AUDIO.
Brian
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Andrew,
Thanks for your advice. I am trying to keep this at 640 x 396 (if playback allows)
I am giving the sor3 with data rate of 1000 a try right now.Are you familiar with playing QT sor3 movies on Windows. I am thinking the laptops playing this will need QT WITH sor 3 right?
Windows Media won’t play it right?Brian
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Yes…sort of. After you make your PJPEG movie, simply open it in QT player and assuming you have the pro version and Flip4Mac you simply choose the Export feature out of Quicktime and select Windows Media as the format…
That’s it…works perfect on the PC.
Rich Rubasch
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Correct, but it is supported by very old versions of of Quicktime.
Tell you what if you have a place to upload a qtime photojpg version of the movies before midday tomorrow, what the heck I’ll convert it for you and upload the wmv.
I’m on a PC so it’s pretty easy but in the future I would look to buying a PC just for this sort of thing. I have a mac just for things like this.
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Andrew
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