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Web render settings in after effects
I have a 5 and a half minute video that will render out in full quality at like a gig and a half. I render it out at WAY bad quality and sound at about 4 megs in avi format. When i render it out at pretty good quality and awesome sound at 320 res with real player format it renders at about 8 meg. Which is okay, but i’d rather not use real player for lack of users having it installed. I am having a hard time and wasting alot of it finding the right render settings for getting a decent quality with good sound at ‘320xwhatever’ in (preferably) quicktime or windowsmedia format.
I guess my question is.
What render settings should i use (AE 6.5 or 7) to get the best quality and sound with the lowest file size around 2-8 megs in a quicktime or wm format?
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for quicktime i always render animation codec highest quality, then for the web, use quick time pro to export Sorrenson or H264. QT pro will do a much better job compressing than AE because it can look ahead and behind all ready rendered frames to produce better results and smaller file sizes.
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As sam.mltn said: Don’t do your final render from AE. It isn’t really meant for this type of stuff (though the export options being their fool you into thinking so). Render high-quality clips from AE and then convert them with other tools. Quicktime Pro is more than okay and in case you need Windows Media, use the free Encoder from Microsoft. On top of that you can find many more tools – free and commercial – such as Virtual Dub, ProCoder, Cleaner etc.
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hi what would i suggest is to use ‘photojepg’ a default QT compressor with high quality setting not the best one . it will decrease ur file size cosiderably with audio it will surely be less size then that of animation codec & as far as sorenson is concern it changes a colour value but it reduces the file. so photojepg compressor is ur solution
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AE works great for web content compression!
“Don’t do your final render from AE” is just a not true.
AE is broadly used for just that.
Why installing other consumer software while having AE?‘320xwhatever’ would be i.e.: level 2.2 when choosing H.264 codec.
But youl’ll get something like “2 and a hlaf pixels per frame” if trying to kill 5min down to 8 Mb files size.Set at 0,8 Mbps Bitrate and 96 kbps for audio. And your file is somewhere at 35Mb File size for 5 and a half min.
So in AE chose H.264 (defaul wrapped as mp.4) than at the video tab set level 2.2 and 0,8 Mbps Bitrate.
Try lower bit rates and look if it still fits your demand.
But remeber 356*whatever… isn’t for “full screen”.On the adobe support pages you`ll find great help on render settings for web and co.
LG, Robert
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