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rendering out huge file maya/AFX
I know this has been asked a million times but my situation is a bit different. I am trying to compress this for my website. My Demo Reel is 1min 46secs. I rendered it out in Maya as Targa files. This is a 3d modeling reel w/ turntable revolves of the models, wireframe on shaded, no texturing yet.
The uncompressed file rendered out in AFX is 3.44GB @720×540 (this is for my VHS/DVD reel). I then stretched it in AFX to 3 diff resolutions for web using the Quicktime7 pro Codec (H.264):
360×270 (46.8mb)
320×240 (37mb)
240×180 (24.3mb).At these sizes it looks great but they are much to big for web. I can get them smaller by exporting in QTpro but they look really crappy and you can not make out the wireframe on the models. I have read through the boards and tried other Codecs ect. and i am convinced that the Targa frames are just too big to begin with! 1.48mb per frame).
Is there a some way i can adjust the targa files in Photoshop to make them smaller w/o loosing quality?
Is there some setting in AFX that will help?
Or do i need to re-render it out in Maya and adjust something in the Render Globals settings?
Please Help! I have been fussing with this for weeks and my hair is turning grey.
Thank you
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I did a 1:13 Quicktime reel in Sorenson Pro 3 (2-pass VBR) that weighed in at 5 MB. It was 15 fps, 320×240, set to a data rate of around 75 KB/sec.
By my reckoning, your 320×240 should be around 7 MB if you were to use my settings with Sorenson Pro 3. Gotta buy that codec. 🙂
Try my settings in your codec, but beware — users require QT7 to play back H.264, if I recall.
(by the way, do you mean megabytes of megabits? MB is megabytes, Mb is megabits)
(mb is microbits, but nobody’s liable to confuse that)Steve
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Thanks for the info. I got it down to 7.71MB @ 320×240 using your settings. I used Sorenson video 3. I assume this is not the pro version, it was just on my list of codecs. The video is still very blurry and you can not make out the wireframe detail.
I also exported it in quicktime pro 7 using the same settings but it came to 18.5MB
I am seriously considering buying the Sorenson Squeeze Suite package. Will this have avi output? I dont want viewers to have to download some exotic codec either.
I assume that you dont think the file size of the targa frames is abnormally large.
also thank you for the correction, I meant MB (megabytes)
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For Windows users on the web, don’t use AVI. It’s dead, except for uncompressed situations. Render as WMV. Actually, AE 6.5 Win renders nice WMVs.
For QT on the web, buy Sorenson Squeeze or whatever gets you Sorenson Pro. It’s way better than the Sorenson that comes with AE. And if a user has QT, he can view any Sorenson movie.
I don’t know what you want to do with the TGA frames. They are for intermediate usage, between apps, not for final delivery. Too big. And they’re a sequence, not a movie, so they can only be played by editing/motion graphics apps.
Steve
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I just tried TMPGEnc and i finally got the file down to the size/quality that want! It only makes mpg files though.
I have AE 5.5 I dont see and option to convert to WMV. I will probably end up purchasing The Sorenson Pro Codec and updating to AE 6.5 (but for now I assume there should be no problem uploading as mpg?)
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