Andy George
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AEtuts has a cool collection-
https://ae.tutsplus.com/articles/roundup/25-amazing-typography-videos/
-Andy George
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If your working with 4K or even 2K images (scaled to 1920×1080) you are going to want a really fast raid array to put the footage onto. How big is your footage and what is your hard drive setup?
What version of AE are you running?
Here is a good article on Ram and Processor settings.
https://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2009/12/performance-tip-dont-starve-yo.html-Andy George
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I’ve made a 2min 16s clip and exported it under “Best settings” Quicktime and “Lossless” Output with default audio.
The “lossless” codec is the Animation codec. It creates very large files, 7gigs sounds about right.
The playback is choppy, Im guessing, because you are trying to play it off of a single hard drive. You would need multiple hard drives in a raid array to get the kind of throughput that you need to play an animation encoded file. The file is probabbly fine in other words, your computer just is not fast enough to play it.
Is there a better setting to give me good quality with a reasonable filesize?
There are a variety of lossless codecs, some are smaller but not by a bunch.
Rather than choosing a codec based on it’s file size, you should select one that is going to
work best for your particular composition.The Animation codec works well for…Animations. Think clean lines and little gradiant.
If your working with footage that was shot and imported you might have better luck with a PNG or Tiff sequence. Proress 422 is another if your running FCP.Is it possible to say I would like a 10,000 kbps file and scale to that ratio?
Not using a lossless codec.The normal workflow is to export lossless from AE and then compress in a compression application like apple compressor or media encoder if you need to create a smaller file at that point. After Effects is not a compressions program and lacks a lot of the features that compression applications use to make great looking tiny video’s.
But what do you want to do with the resulting smaller file? It would no longer be usefull for editing and any further compression applied to it would only result in compounding the previos compression artifacts that might not be visible in the first pass.
-Andy George
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Don’t use AE to make your MP4 Render lossless and then compress in another program. See Dave’s answer below for more on that-
Dave’s Stock Answer #3:
Don’t use AE to compress files for final delivery. The various compressors are there only to make quick ‘n dirty files showing a project’s progress to producers, clients, the kids, etc. AE is incapable of doing multipass encoding, a crucial feature that greatly improves the image quality of H.264 and MPEG-type files in particular.
Render a high-quality file from AE, and use a different application to do the compression. Popular ones are Adobe Media Encoder, Sorenson Squeeze and Apple’s Compressor, which comes bundled with Final Cut Suite. Even compressing in Quicktime Pro is better than compressing in AE.
Making good-looking compressed files is almost as much an art as it is a science. It is NOT straightforward at all. I recommend asking a few questions at the COW’s Compression Techniques forum.
-Andy George
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From the Adobe CS4 online help
Important: Because not all features of a composition can be rendered with OpenGL—and because some features that can be rendered with OpenGL are rendered with different results—you may only want to use OpenGL rendering to accelerate previews and to provide faster rendering for non-final results.
https://help.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/9.0/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79e8a.html
Basically…Open GL does not work well. Most people never use it.
-Andy George
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I have about 10 Lacie D2 Quadra’s that get passed around, taken home, and even shipped. I have yet to have one die on me (although I still expect it at any moment, it’s a hard drive right?)
my 2cents
-Andy George
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I use this script to do what your talking about
https://aescripts.com/rd-render-layers/Set it to “layer in and out points” and it will render every selected layer in a composition to it’s own file. You will need to set up a render template first so that the script can access your jpeg render settings.
-Andy George
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This might be the type of script your looking for-
https://aescripts.com/the-loopmaker/
-Andy George
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http://www.chiselindustries.com -
Is this that bezier tool I’ve heard of?
This is it. It can be pretty useful once you get the hang of it.
There is not a freehand mode to my knowledge.Here is a good tutorial on the Pen tool that will help-
https://library.creativecow.net/articles/stern_eran/the-pen-tool.php
-Andy George
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Is it possible to add multiple files onto the same layer
If you precomposed them they would appear as one layer on your main comp.
Short of that…no
-Andy George
Senior Editor
http://www.chiselindustries.com