Sorry for not being more thorough. Thanks for your assistance. The solutions that I’ve found are:

1. Try and export in 2k or 4k so that I get the VP9 codec rather than the crappy avc1 codec that YouTube normally tries to give.

2. Increase the bitrate to 2 or 3 times the YouTube recommended bitrate.

3. Schedule the video publish date to give YouTube…

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Nothing bothers me about the export, it’s the way it looks in YouTube that I’m trying to improve by exporting it with settings that might help it to look better. It’s ok, I think I found the information that I’m looking for.

I’ve tried a few different ways of rendering this and it always just looks bad in YouTube. This current upload was set to avi (Lossless) and I set the comp to 32 bpc. The file is over 3Gb for 10 seconds and it still looks awful. I tried slowing the animation right down but it doesn’t help. I guess YouTube compression methods means that it’s hard…

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Brilliant! Thanks so much for your help!

Does anyone have any suggestions on a way to smooth shape morphing? (Please see YouTube video below for what I’m trying to do). I used auto-trace and keyframes and it looks good but there are a lot of jagged edges and I’m interested to see if there is a way of making it all look better.

Thanks.

Thank you. I see my problem was that I had the random statement in the same expression as the opacity ‘if statement’. I have put the random statement with the posterizeTime statement in an expression on an adjustment layer with a slider now and it works the way I need it to. Thanks again.

If I want to generate a random number in an expression and have an animated blink happen if a certain number is chosen, how could I have the blink last for more than one frame? Like an ‘if statement’ on the opacity of a layer allowing the opacity to be at 100% over 3 frames if the number 5 is randomly generated.

There may well be a better way to do…

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