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April 22, 2021
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Having issues with the resolution of advanced lightning once rendered

  • April 22, 2021
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Admittedly I am very new to using Ae... however I followed an online tutortial step by step to add (4) layers of lightning to my still photo. The photo is part of a 5 second clip for Instagram in which the lightning is moving in different directions and the photo remains still the entire time

 

The photo is very high resoltuion and when I am previewing the entire 5s clip on Ae the resolution of both the lightning and the photo are great... however when I go: "Composition > add to media encoder queue" then from media encoder I will make sure the parameters are right for instragram which include H:264 and then ill adjust the bitrate to 3.5... then I click "OK" then I continue to render the image

 

Once I open the rendered file, the lightning resolution becomes very poor... any ideas why the quality seems to get diminished during the render phase?

 

Thanks!

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Mylenium
Mylenium
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April 22, 2021

Long and short: You are employing bad procedures and seem to have a wrong understanding of how damaging MP4 compression can be. Start by actually creating your composition at the desired output size and then tweak the lighting effects. I'm pretty sure you are messing things up royally by dialling in way to many details that then ruin the compression because they become "noise". That and relying on the automated prost-processing scaling in AME would further deteriorate the quality. Again, you need to brush up on your basics here, including understanding what formats and resolutions IG et al actually want/ prefer and how their own server-side compression also affects quality. Your clip would likely look terrible even with just the image and no lightnings for the simple fact that the uncontrolled scaling during encoding has ill effects.

 

Mylenium

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