[Alexander Brown]

hey there,
umm, I think I should try to explain better,

I have a vector line object, drawn in illustrator, no fills, just the path.

because it is a path, that a machine can read, I was wondering if there is an effect/plugin that can read the path and follow it.

My intention is to reveal the line, so it draws on. But without the hassle of manually keyframing it.

Similar to when you can animate type in after effects, because the type is machine vectors, you can make type appear without manually masking out each letter.

is this any clearer?

[Alexander Brown]

Okay,

It was filmed on HDV 1080i50
I put the file through after effects, and is currently an Uncompressed quicktime, its only 3 mins long, but is 16GB

what is the best codec / least lossy, to get the file size down.

Logically it makes sense to convert it back to HDV, but is there a better codec that will be less lossy than HDV but smaller filesize than Animation.

So that the file is under 4GB