elethumb Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Hi, After I render, I compile all the .tif files in AfterEffect. I use H.264. However, the animation looks not as good as I expected. I have to expect that there should be quality loss when compiling, but it was not happy result still. I am curious how you guys are doing when you guys make an animation. There are plenty of super sharp cg animation in Youtube. I don't know how they did it. Could you give me any suggestion? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Schroeder Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 H.264 should give you pretty decent results as long as you know what settings to change/tweak. What are your settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elethumb Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 I use just default setting. nothing changed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Schroeder Posted October 8, 2012 Share Posted October 8, 2012 Well, there you go. It's not the codec's fault. Do some research on H.264 settings. What is the size of your video? What are you going to do with it? Where is it going to be played? Youtube/Vimeo? Dvd? Web? Each application has different needs. Though AE isn't always the best at encoding video, but I have gotten decent results with it and H.264 at the same time. Sometimes it's better to render out an uncompressed file, then using a program like Squeeze, compress it using your codec of choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elethumb Posted October 8, 2012 Author Share Posted October 8, 2012 If I render out an uncompressed file, it is extremely huge. I will research Squeeze. Thank you so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josef Wienerroither Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 Is'nt AE comming with Media Encoder ? or is this only in the suite version ? Media Encoder is a really GREAT encoder package, if you got it, no need to look for Squeeze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matthewspencer Posted October 9, 2012 Share Posted October 9, 2012 For versatile files with a relatively decent balance between quality and file size, we've had a lot of success lately with the AE export of Quicktime videos, using codec Sorenson 3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fooch Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 H264 make sure its progressive key frames every 10 - 50 frames .. lower for motion graphics bit data rate : around 5,000 to 8,500 --> or more if depending on resolution Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SanderB Posted October 30, 2012 Share Posted October 30, 2012 Believe after effects is only able to 1 pass encoding, so it would be better to do it in a different program like media encoder, virtualdub, etc where u can encode in multipass vbr instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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