[Michael Duff]

slightly OT….this is a coool website. in fact, i think I can remember exactly the same question being asked a couple of months ago. Anyways…

If any of you guys are into web design as well, would all these animations have been rendered out as little video clips and then just put into Flash? This is what I want to do with my website, but am worried about loading times etc…any advice for putting AE created material into a website?

[Michael Duff]

I guess if there is little budget/time you could do the good ol’ locking off the camera. Then just cut to a shot without him in it. Hide the dirty cut with your puff of smoke. Which if you don’t already have, i’d shoot in studio on a black screen and then layer it on. Maybe you could cut out the last shot from before he dissapears and add a partical explosion or even…shatter…

I think it is too difficult to do it on shoot without a good budget.

oh oh oh, don’t forget the good old lightning effect.

[Michael Duff]

this is what I do when I want to render a number of projects over night. I’m not sure if it’s the best way to do it, but it works for me.

[Michael Duff]

if I get a crazy long render it is normally because I applied a flare or similar effect to a huge solid by accident. Or, using a flare, starglow, shine, whatever, if I blow it right out and am using that as a background to continue into the next shot I exprot a still frame and re-import it. Otherwise the system is calculating a really intesive effect over and over and over again. Or maybe, if you have zoomed right into one of the 3D layers it might be struggling to calculate the whole thing every frame.

Try switching off or on suspect layers. If you find the bad one, then maybe do something to simplify that layer (ie, exporting a still or something)

[Michael Duff]

well…..in the render queue I’ve got:

Render settings – BEST SETTINGS – (my comp is PAL 768×576 square pixel)

Output module: Format – quicktime movie
Output info: Animation Compressor, spatial quality high 100%
Embeddind OFF
RGB
Millions of colours
premultiplied
44.1K /16bit/stereo

I’m sure my setting are correct. Except I didn’t interlace the footage because it is all made from graphics. I always use this setting at work and it is fine (Pinnacle Liquid Silver…..argh). Premiere just isn’t seeing any .mov files.

If I can’t solve this what other options do I have for rendering out at “almost” lossless?

[Michael Duff]

I have quicktime 6.5.1 –

Premiere just isn’t recognising the .mov files. When i expand the file types option in the import screen it doesn’t have an option for quicktimes….