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Steve5FC2
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December 23, 2020
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Render Video - Quicktime

  • December 23, 2020
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A colleague and I are rendering the same animation in photoshop but his quicktime MOV is anywhere between 300-375MB while mine are 700MB. Same steps, same setup on the exporting page. 

 

So confused why this would be happening. 

 

I followed the same steps he presented me with and they match how I was instructed. 

 

WHY? Has anyone seen this before? Any tips to lower my MP by keeping it quicktime and not losing any of my final product.

 

Stumped. 

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Warren Heaton
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Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 23, 2020

There's a lot that affects the file size of exported video.

 

Are you using the exact same settings as your colleague?  So, frame size, frame rate, compression type and duration?  Also, is the content similar?  

 

If any one of those is different, you're going to get a different file size.

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Steve5FC2Author
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December 23, 2020

Thank you for getting back to me. All of the above are the same. I'm following a step by step how to that he sent me.

 

Would it playing a factor if he's using an older version of Photoshop? The only reason I ask that is because in Exporting page the 3D Quality on mine reads "Interactive OpenGL" his just says "Interactive". the only difference and i dont have the difference for "Interactive"

 

Its the same animation, etc.

 

Thanks for any help to assist in toruble shooting

 

 

Warren Heaton
Community Expert
Warren HeatonCommunity Expert
Community Expert
December 23, 2020

With a different 3D Quality setting, you'd expect the render time to be slower or faster, but not the resulting file size to be different.

 

That said...

 

Let's say your colleague's animation is a logo over a solid color and that person gets 300MB exported to QuickTime at the Animation High Quality preset.  Then, you open the same file and you add a forest image behind the logo and then export at the same settings.  Your export will be larger than your colleague's (probably a lot larger) due to how the Animation CODEC compresses within the frame.

 

 

 

 

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