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Why are all AE tutorials rendered to MOV files?
Simple question. I watched many AE tutorials and they ALL render stuff to QuickTime formats. I always worked with AVI files. Is QuickTime(mov) better?
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Back then i didn’t know any better. That’s my excuse. All of the new ones are Flash.
Flash is more universal.
AVI’s are bad becasue then many mac users are left in the cold. And I;m not in love with any of the AVI codecs.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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What about all the people that don’t have QuickTime installed? Yes, I know it’s free… but I find it very annoying when I try to watch something and it asks me to download and install a free codec or ActiveX.
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Again – that’swhy I’ve switched to Flash. 98% of all PC’s have Flash. ANd flash updates instantly with no hassle, or wait.
Should point out though that anyone working in animation has (or at least should have) QuitckTime on their computer. Many programs require that it’s installed. AE, for exam,ple yells at you if you install it wiout QT. It still works, but it doesn’t like it.
Windows AVI will never reach near the audience that QT, does, and QT will never reach near the audience that Flash does.
Best,
Aharon
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com—————————————-
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I agree about the flash for web projects.
Also, I wasn’t talking about AE people like us when I talked about not having QT installed… I was taling about our viewers.Anywhoo… Thanks for the reply. I think I WILL start working more with QT because I also have a dislike for the AVI codecs. So many bugs. Even the DIVX has it’s issues.
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Flash is your best bet, no matter how you spin it.
However QT is the next best.
Any reason you are chosing QT over Flash?
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com—————————————-
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I don’t know. For some reason I have in my head that Flash movies are only for viewing via web. If you wanted to make some effect in a video, would you render it to flash in AE and then import it back to the PPR as Flash?
Or if you’re making a 10 second intro for putting before a DVD video, would you render the 10 second intro to Flash and then import the Flash to PPR, if you’re making at the end a DVD?
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I’m confudes. You were talking about tutorials. Flash is for the Web, though it has many other applications. the creative cow Master Series of DVD’s all use Flash for the interface and video. But it is a computer DVD – not a TV DVD.
All that aside, until your final video, you should be using uncompressed video, or video with a lossless codec – Quicktime with Animation compression is a good starting place.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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Sorry. I was talking about tutorials that come on DVDs with the project files included. All the project files (assets and rendered clips) are mov. (I have more then one company of tutorials.)
About the Quicktime with Animation compression… This is what I was trying to use for BEFORE my final video and was coming out choppy. Can I use this Quicktime with Animation compression, but with an %89 quality too? Is this acceptable in working with stuff before final videos?
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QT with animation compression was not designed to to play on your computer. It may play on higher end machines, but those files are quite large. Thir purpose is to be an asset for final production.
If you want to preview your videos, you have to render them out compressed to be watchable.
All you should care about playing cleanly are your final videos. Not your assets (Source files). You can lower the quality to about 90 with almost no loss in quality. I’d not go below that. Frankly, I’d leave it at 100.
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Aharon Rabinowitz
aharon(AT)yahoo(DOT)com
http://www.allbetsareoff.com—————————————-
Click the link below to subscribe to the Creative Cow After Effects Podcast, and get free AE video tutorials:https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=111087911
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There you go! Now I understand. Thanks so much!
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