[Jenny Collier]

Boy would I love to know the answer to that question, Jason. At this point, I think it has something to do with the fact that Camtasia (at Techsmith program that uses TSSCC) is installed on the same computer.

If ANYONE can explain why this works, or how to load codecs so they integrate with various programs (for both ENcoding and DEcoding purposes), Please share your wisdom. =(

[Jenny Collier]

Kevin,

You were spot on, halving the frame rate SLASHED my file sizes correspondingly…and the clips still look GREAT. You’re my hero, no joke.

Interesting info about “key frames”…yeah, I’m used to the term in animation, but I’m sure in the Render Settings menu it means compression key frames as you say. I wonder whether I could save even more file space by fiddling around with them. I’ll give it a go.

Thanks again, this has helped me SO much!

[Jenny Collier]

That’s very insightful, thanks for your reply!

I didn’t realize frame rate could affect file size, I’ll play around with that in AE and see what I get.

Any thoughts on this “keyframing” business? Is that an alternate way to produce an alpha channel?

[Jenny Collier]

Hello there,

I have a followup question. In my copy of After Effects at least, there is only ONE codec on the list that allows me to compress AVIs with an alpha channel, and that is TSSCC.

If I were to use another codec for compression, one that did not support “RGB+Alpha”, could I render a separate alpha channel file (I presume by selecting just “Alpha”), then reimport both compressed parts and somehow laminate them back together WITHIN After Effects?

Thanks for your help!