After Effects CS3 HD Question...

[PhoDeep]

Hey guys. I'm a total noob to this video stuff and i was wondering if I made something in AE, a radial ramp with some text, could I be able to export it in HD? I made a video that is about 12 seconds long with an audio track and when i render it, not export, the file is huge! BTW the size of the composition is 1280x720.

 

[CaptainChunk]

Hey guys. I'm a total noob to this video stuff and i was wondering if I made something in AE, a radial ramp with some text, could I be able to export it in HD? I made a video that is about 12 seconds long with an audio track and when i render it, not export, the file is huge! BTW the size of the composition is 1280x720.

You can export to just about anything you want in AE. When you send your composition to the Render Queue, you can set the compression codec (uncompressed, ProRes, etc.), frame size (which in your case should be set to 1280x720), etc.

 

[PhoDeep]

You can export to just about anything you want in AE. When you send your composition to the Render Queue, you can set the compression codec (uncompressed, ProRes, etc.), frame size (which in your case should be set to 1280x720), etc.

Well, since I'm going to be uploading this video to YouTube, what type of compression would you recommend I use? So far I've tried "Animation" and it the quality is great! But unfortunately the file is enormous!

 

[CaptainChunk]

Preferred method: output as an animation first (we'll call this your master render) and then export that file to something smaller like H.264 in Quicktime Pro, FCP, MPEG Streamclip, etc.

You can also render straight to H.264 in your After Effects project if you want.

 

[PhoDeep]

Thanks a lot!