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mwilliams96
mwilliams96
Participant
August 10, 2018
Question

How to make a .mov file as animation codec?

  • August 10, 2018
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Hi,

Just to pre-warn anyone reading this, I'm a total rookie, and I mean massive rookie with stuff like this so things/sentences I may say might make absolutley no sense to people who know their stuff regarding this topic.

I've been working with a company who are going to feature our logo onto a touchline at a football ground. They want it as a .mov file (we are just giving them a static image) so I went ahead and converted the jpeg into .mov using iMovie (a method I know that works) however we've sent it back and they want the file as 'animation codec'.

I've checked the file and the file we have is 'Apple ProRes 422, Timecode'.

Does anyone know how I convert or turn this file into one that is 'animation codec'

Again, apologies if this question makes 0 sense and/or is not possible and/or is on the complete wrong thread or community.

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,

Matt

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A.I.1
Legend
August 13, 2018

You could use After Effects CC (eg. 2017 or 2018) and either render directly to quicktime, selecting the Animation codec or send it to Adobe Media Encoder CC with quicktime and animation codec. Though that's usually for videos not stills. But I suppose you could render a 1 frame animation if you only wanted 1 frame.

dj.summitt
dj.summitt
Inspiring
August 10, 2018

You can do that from iMovie. No need for After Effects. When you are exporting out of iMovie there should be a place to choose the codec. I run Windows so I can't tell you where but look around in the export settings.

mwilliams96
mwilliams96Author
Participant
August 13, 2018

Thanks for your reply.

However when I go to export my project as a file on iMovie I don't get any options to choose the codec? I think iMovie may be too basic for something like that possibly?

I've attached my only options when exporting as a screenshot. I've looked at all the options under each dropdown btw.

dj.summitt
dj.summitt
Inspiring
August 13, 2018

I feel pretty confident that I have, in the past, changed encoding options in iMovie but I can't test it w/o a Mac. If anyone on a Mac chimes in they may be able to help - or you can do it in After Effects. Do you have AE?

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