-
Too many GB
After I render my composition to an .avi file on my hard disk, its huge!
EX: I have a movieclip(5min-700Mb) and after I trim it, put effects and render it, It’s about 5Gb on my hard diskI tried multiple output format and played around with the quality and resolution but it’s still too big!
I would like it to be around 5Mb…
Help please!!
-
3 Replies
-
Hmm … 5 minutes at 5 MB … that would make a data rate of 1 MB/minute, or roughly 17 KB/second.
You can try reducing the frame rate, image size and quality to get down to that data rate … but you might not like what you see. Sometimes you just can’t cram an elephant through the eye of a needle.
Try 160×120 at 15 fps, low-to-medium quality on something like Quicktime’s Sorenson 3.
Steve
-
Lower the overall frame rate substantially, raise compression ratio and select a more lossy format for rendering. There are also externally viable solutions for compression of your final render that can produce good results but they are not included as part of the After Effects toolset. Look to externally available CODECs that compress frames more efficiently and external software solutions designed specifically for frame compression and/or web delivery.
Basically, a 5 minute long file with a broadcast sized frame and a standard frame-rate is going to be pretty large to say the least if you’re attempting to render it to an uncompressed and/or low compression broadcast-ready format. If you can compress to standard DV, Sorenson2/3 or a JPEG based compressor you’ll get far better size results but there is no known way to take full-quality, full-frame video and reduce it to the sizes that I imagine that you’re expecting specifically.
Michael Munkittrick
Managing Creative Director
Evolve Media SolutionsForum COWmunity leader for:
Sony DV
Magic Bullet -
1 minute of uncompressed video (no audio) is about 1.8 GB.
When you are using Quicktime with animation compression, depending on the footage, it can be significantly smaller or not much smaller at all. You can try switching to another codec, and then maybe setting the QT quality settings lower, to help lower the file size.
What I usually do is render out as animation compression, and then take my render and drop it into a nother program called “Sorenson Squeeze” to compress it cleanly. It’s works pretty well. “Cleaner” does the same thing, though I haven’t used it.
—————————————-
Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com
—————————————-
Creative Cow Master Series DVD
particleIllusion Fusion Volume 1
available @ http://www.pIllusionFusion.com
Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up