[Oliver De morassé]

Thanks Vishesh. What I have noticed is that you use the “Color Range” along with “Simple Choker” effects before Keylight – any reason?

This spokesperson walk on/off the screen – can autotrace still work here across multiple frames of movement?

[Oliver De morassé]

Perfect – thanks.

[Oliver De morassé]

We wish to produce video spokespersons – videos with transparent backgrounds giving the appearence that the spokespersons are ‘on top’ of the website with the content shinning through – for integration into existing websites. We do not use existing services such as youtube etc.

[Oliver De morassé]

OK – will do.

I am trying to create the best quality web videos (with transparency) at the smallest file size. Have you any suggestions regarding settings: bitrate encoding (CBR, VBR), Encoding passes (one/two), bitrate (kbps) – or any other settings/tips.

Thanks for your great help.

[Oliver De morassé]

Sorry to sound naive Tod – but I am new to Encoder. Better in terms of the quality of the final video (even with all settings the same?), rendering time, processing or ??? Thanks for the clafication.

[Oliver De morassé]

@Tod. Yes, having ‘played’ with Encoder I see that I can import my AE project, select the composition to export etc.

You say that the H.264 exporter is much better in Adobe Media Encoder – what do you mean? Are you saying that I should use Encoder to create my .mp4 rather than rendering in AE? What about rendering .flv files? Finally, in Encoder I haven’t found how to export to .webm or .ogg – which format should I be selecting?

[Oliver De morassé]

I would like to create the best possible quality videos for the web – but they need to be small.

At the momen, for a .flv video 250×500 (RGB + Alpha channels), I use the On2 VP6 Codec, VBR & a bitrate of 375kbps with audio at 80kbps.

[Oliver De morassé]

Thanks for the feedback.

Sorry, never heard of Adobe Media Converter. I am using AE CS5 on a Windows 7 64-bit PC – which should I be installing (link)?

What do you mean – export out of Adobe Media Converter? Can I import my AE.aep and export a composition?

Update: Sorry, just seen that I have Adobe Media Encoder already installed on my system! Will play

[Oliver De morassé]

Thanks Dave. Here is the link to Darby’s tip.
. Sorry to sound a right dummy, however, I am just learning AE. For clarification, everything is done to the upper layer (keylight, colour correction etc.). What’s the bottom layer for – what should I do with it?

[Oliver De morassé]

Thanks. Regarding white balance, please see How to white balance correctly. Any feedback welcome.