Rendering as video as opposed to frame by frame?

[Shayder]

To output to video tape eventually for example use the CCIR 601/Quantel NTSC setting. That is essentially a TV format. Then choose Production Quality under Anti-Aliasing. You can then use a .iff image format or .tga, .tga's will be a bigger file than .iff's but they look very good.

You would then render out the frame range of your choice. Take those frames into a compositing program. I use Adobe After Effects to do this. On the import settings just make sure you check the .iff/.tga sequence box.

Then from there you can render it out as whateve video format you need, for Premiere use quicktime with a Sorensen 3 compression or the Animation compression. the animation compression will allow you to preserve an alpha channel, handy if what you are animating is a logo or something to go over video.

[westiemad]

frame by frame is better for a couple of reasons, firstly if your render crashes part way through an avi, then you have to start all over again, with frames,its easier to clip the start and end, or hold a frame.

If you want good quality, try rendering out with something like Tiff, or tga. If you are using premier you can right click in the white empty box next to "bin", and select import>file, and then in the window check the little check box (this will load in all the frames, and not a single frame at like 2 seconds), then left click and drag this down to the video timeline.

You can use quicktime to put a lot of stills together to make a mov file also.

AnDy (with the broken keyboard)

[Enlighter]

Is it hard, or does it take a long time to compile in after effects?

[Shayder]

It doesn't take long in After Effects at all and is not hard to do.

You can also add effects and adjust your animations as well in AE.

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