[Aditya Chopra]

Thank you Kate for the detailed info.

A strategy that is working well for me is to render the animation of out AE as a lossless AVI and then use a 3rd party video conversion tool to covert into the formats depending on purpose – all the way from Blu-ray to YouTube. I haven’t tried it but I guess the packaged Media Encoder would do a good job at the conversions too.

For my presentation in Open Office, WMV did not work well but a high bit rate, compressed MPG did the job well and did not get any visible black lines. Hence, the black lines seem to be due to the hardware not being able to cope during playback but I will keep in mind the de-interlace aspect in future animations.

The CAPS-LOCK thing seems to have halved my render time!

Given the strengths of FLV files, I think I might change to PowerPoint in the future…

Thank you for your help.

Adi.

[Aditya Chopra]

Hi,

I am a novice in AE and have made my first animations and I tried to find out over the internet which render settings are the best for my purpose. There are so many answers out there that I am confused and I hope someone here can tell me what I should do. I tried to look in past posts but they haven’t been able to resolve my issue.

My one minute animation contains text, pictures and sounds with effects such as blurs and glows. The animation is finalised and I want to use it on the web and in a slideshow in Open Office Impress. I would like the quality (resolution & colours) to be the highest possible without making the file so large that it does not play smoothly during a presentation or so large a download that it will not be downloaded.

The composition settings were default ones for NTSC Square Pixels 29fps 720×534. I have rendered it to Lossless options such as QT-None, QT-Animation and Lossless AVI. I have tried QT-Photo JPEG and the quality is resonable but the contrast in colors is lost (e.g the black backgournd becomes brighter – almost a dark grey). However, in all cases the files sizes are ~300-700MB. I have tried FLV format, where the file size in only 7MB and the picture quality is good but it does not work in Open Office.