Output Settings

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
December 30, 2020
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Hi all,

I was just wondering if anyone could give any advice on what particular output settings (I am currently using the Render Queue) they use to output their files from AE.

For example, I have made a 7 second animation with two live paint elements on a PNG "background" and while the AE file is 321KB the .mov file is 478.5MB.

Currently anything I am producing in AE if purely for me to look at and to improve my skillset so I dont have to worry about quality (to a certain degree) or it being uploaded anywhere,

Many Thanks in advance

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Ro Hackett

Inspiring

Hello! Try adding to the media encoder queue and setting it on H.264 ... loads of great options in there for great video quality output and great file size.

(I have always used H.264 directly in AE render queue but in this newer version it is not there so i will be looking to find it which i believe you can)

Also get yourself AVC any video converter, and any large video files you have, drop them in there and convert to "customized mp4" ... makes them even smaller and you wont be able to tell much of a difference in quality, I always use it for my own personal projects and vids in fact I would be lost without it.

But i am definitely looking to get the H264 back in the AE render queue

R

Rick Gerard

Community Expert

It's not likely that H.264 rendering will return to the Output Module/Render Queue. MPEG compression requires looking forward and backward at least 1 frame to calculate the B and P frames and the Render Cue can only look at one frame at a time. H.264 encoding in the Render Queue never worked well. That's why it was removed.

Ro Hackett

Inspiring

Never worked well? I'm using it years. Great quality and file sizes the average person can actually work with.

In fact I am currently reinstalling it to make sure it is in my After Effects output modules.

😂😂😂

Mylenium

Legend

I'm not clear what you are really asking for. It seems you simply have a fundamental misunderstanding about what an AE project is - prametric editable data that controls functions and features - vs. the actual output - baked pixel data. If 500 MB for a 7 second file concerns you, then I'm not sure what to advise. Sorry to be so direct, but just like rendering times this is one of those "just get used to it" things that you need to understand when working with video content. For your own pleasure you can of course choose whatever you want as long as your computer is able to reasonably play it back. Personally I wouldn't bother with Quicktime anymore as ever since Apple basically abandoned it, it's more trouble than it's worth outside the few CoDecs AE supports natively. For frame-by-frame quality checks image sequences are much more efficient, anyway and on a reasonably fast computer even basic image viewers can play in slideshow mode at full framerates, giving the illusion of actual clip playback.

Mylenium

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