[Jeff Sims]

Understood, and yes i ended up converting the files into flv and i now have a cool flv player on my website 🙂

[Jeff Sims]

hahaha yer thats cool, Thanks a lot Dave.

I really do need to find a good resource for learning about codecs and compression and bit rate and all that.

Do you know a good place or a section in creative cow?

I found that using AVI i had a nice smooth flow with a fast sequence i had in my intro video and with WMV that fast sequence was a bit sketchy, im guessing this is all because of the compression and stuff.

So i need to find a good place to study all of the technical stuff… till then i am actually messing with quick time outputs as i have read that they are also good with web uploads, and tweaking different codecs to increase quality and keep file size down, but im finding that they are still a bit large, so as you said i might go and make a WMV file again and increase the bitrate.

thanks again 🙂

[Jeff Sims]

Thanks for the info guys.

I did go over to YouTube and check out there guidelines for best quality ect, like you guys were talking about they were talking about frame rate and all the rest. Which i don’t fully understand it all and what kind of difference it will make.

I was looking around in my project and looking for the different settings, Troy by encoding the AVI file how did you mean? how can i encode that using AE? in the render panel i can change the output to MPEG-2 but i can’t find the DV/DVCAM in there. And how would changing this be encoding the AVI file?

Ive also tryed looking for them in the comp settings, like the presets and stuff but can’t find them there.

If it has anything to do with comp settings i had them set to the preset NTSC DV, frame rate 29.97 and output to AVI.

Where do i go to set it to “compressed”?

But anyway i can just go and change the output settings to MOV ect just like Dave said…… but how long will it take to render?! both WMV and AVI took about 40mins for a 60 sec clip to render… im guessing this has something to do with my bit rate or frame rate, but how to i change these around??

[Jeff Sims]

Hey thanks for the help.

Im slowly getting there with AE now 🙂