Optimal rendering settings for Adobe AfterEffects CS4?

ted-m · 11-03-2009, 02:59 PM

Optimal rendering settings for Adobe AfterEffects CS4?
I'm working on a music video for a friend and I'm pretty good at video editing but codecs, rendering, and exporting just kill me. Anyway I did a little bit of color correction in AE and I'm trying to render it so I can edit it in Adobe Premiere (and exporting it to Premiere doesn't work because the playback and preview is way too choppy that way). Anyway I tried to edit the render template to full res and that gave me massive sizes for videos, like 8-11GB for a 50 second comp and that is not acceptable, neither can any program really work with that without crashing. Then I tried also changing the output module to Quicktime .mov's and changing it to those recommended settings by creativecow. The rendering is going much faster and the files are smaller but I still got a 6 minute comp going 8GB which is better but still not something I can work with. I need to know how to export or render the video so I can edit it. If possible I would like to know a way where I can retain 100% quality minimum of 95% quality and also something that doesn't take an hour and a half to render... please respond to this ASAP as I need to know really soon!!! Thank you very much :)

11-03-2009, 02:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
ted-m Registered User Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 96 OS: WinXP	Optimal rendering settings for Adobe AfterEffects CS4? Optimal rendering settings for Adobe AfterEffects CS4? I'm working on a music video for a friend and I'm pretty good at video editing but codecs, rendering, and exporting just kill me. Anyway I did a little bit of color correction in AE and I'm trying to render it so I can edit it in Adobe Premiere (and exporting it to Premiere doesn't work because the playback and preview is way too choppy that way). Anyway I tried to edit the render template to full res and that gave me massive sizes for videos, like 8-11GB for a 50 second comp and that is not acceptable, neither can any program really work with that without crashing. Then I tried also changing the output module to Quicktime .mov's and changing it to those recommended settings by creativecow. The rendering is going much faster and the files are smaller but I still got a 6 minute comp going 8GB which is better but still not something I can work with. I need to know how to export or render the video so I can edit it. If possible I would like to know a way where I can retain 100% quality minimum of 95% quality and also something that doesn't take an hour and a half to render... please respond to this ASAP as I need to know really soon!!! Thank you very much :)