Steve Roberts
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Use the Render Queue, don’t Export.
Without losing quality, there is a limit on how small you can make the file. If you want to lose as little quality as possible, choose Quicktime Animation codec, or an “Uncompressed 8-bit” codec.
As you reduce the file size further, you lose more quality. It’s a tradeoff.
Now. Where is this footage going, to which application, for what eventual delivery format?
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Click the name of the comp and choose “new comp viewer”, then select your other comp.
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You need to make a 3D bullet. Learn to use a 3D application or buy Zaxwerks Invigorator.
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You should try the Compression Techniques COW forum.
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Indeed. Welcome, he of the stylish photo-frame. 🙂
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AE can work on comps up to 30,000 by 30,000, if I recall. So HD is no sweat for the app, as is 2K or 4K film.
You need enough RAM to preview the number of frames you want at the comp window res you want. Do a test animation at 1280×720, 1920×1080, keep Task Manager open to see RAM usage, and see how many frames you can preview. 2GB isn’t much … you should have at least 4 GB.
Disk speed isn’t a big issue with AE — that’s an NLE problem.
As for file size, render a :30 spot in the two resolutions above in the Animation codec, Photo-JPEG codec, TGA sequence, PNG sequence and see how much space they take up.
You might be in trouble if you have to render to DVCPROHD or Apple ProRes codecs, since you have a PC, and those codecs are mac-only, if I recall. You might want to consider switching over to OSX.
AE doesn’t like importing any MPEG, including HDV (unless they’ve changed something). You should convert to another format before importing those.
Anybody else?
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Have you tried rendering to different codecs?
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Have you tried the 8.0.1 update?
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Unless the pictures are supposed to pop off the page, I’d make one big comp for each page with all the videos 2D, and put the little lines on a solid, not an adjustment layer as Dave wrote.
(Adjustment layers are only to be used when you want to apply an effect to all the layers below in one go.)
Then I’d bring each page comp into a master comp, and make each page 3D so the camera can buzz around.
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It’s a common mistake to avoid putting spaces around links. 🙂
https://youtube.com/watch?v=3KxJasm3cxQ is the link.
According to Cinefex, here’s how the LOTR effect was achieved: Digital Domain “created the water horses through volumetric animation tied into the company’s in-house fluid simulation program”.
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