why is my animation file so big?

[volodymyrs95581297]

I'm trying to make a animated music video type thing, and the animation file is fine when working on it, but then I try to export it to upload it, it takes forever, and when it finally finishes ITS 15 GIGABYTES!! Why is it so big? its only about 5 mins! And when I try to upload it to youtube, it says file type unsupported, even though I've uploaded mov files there before!!

[ClayUUID]

You haven't provided any information that would be useful for troubleshooting your problem.

What exactly are you doing?

[volodymyrs95581297]

I do export video, I turn off media encoder because I can usually upload a mov file to YouTube, it says exporting, that doesn't take that long, but then it says recording flash content, and it takes a very long time, when it finishes its very large and I can't upload it for some reason

[Joseph Labrecque]

The initial file from Animate is raw video - consider transcoding for appropriate channels via Media Encoder.

[Colin Holgate · Accepted solution]

I don't know the legal reasons, but Adobe only have the rights to export all keyframe Animation codec movies. If you had a compression program that could export to Animation you could do so with wider keyframes, and the file size would come down a lot. Adobe Media Encoder doesn't have that option. Compressor does, and I just did a test with a 12 GB export from Animate, it came down to under 1 GB.

But don't worry about that. YouTube's recommended specs are 8 mbps H.264, 320 kbps AAC sound. Just use Adobe Media Encoder to make a 10 mbps MP4, it will look nearly as good as the lossless 15 GB file, and you could throw away the large file afterwards. If you ever need the large file again you could do another export from Animate.