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KristopherLee
01-06-2008, 03:08 AM
Hi everyone.

I have a question. I've been asked to render out to a QT movie in AE instead of a .AVI. Well, my problem is that when I've rendered out to .AVI's, the quality is gorgeous but the size is HUGE.

But when I rendered out to a QT movie with H.264, the quality is really not very good. The color looks like its been desaturated a bit and almost seems a little pixelated. As an AVI tho, it looks great.

Im on a PC btw. Is there anything I may be missing when trying to render out to MOV that makes it look not as good as an AVI? Thanks for any help with this.

Oh, someone told me to render the animation as a targa sequence and open it in QTPro and export it out as a H.264. Does that make sense (I know how to do it) and if so, why can't I just do that in AE instead. It seems you should be able to render to a MOV with just as great of quality as an AVI without exporting to a different app.

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***Edit.. I just read the compression sticky. Should I just render out to the AVI and compress it somewhere else?***
Mylenium
01-06-2008, 11:20 AM
But when I rendered out to a QT movie with H.264, the quality is really not very good. The color looks like its been desaturated a bit and almost seems a little pixelated. As an AVI tho, it looks great.

Please search this forum. This issue has been discussed in a number of threads with enough hints and clues. In short: the desaturation seems to be an arbitrary bug/ flaw in the QT implementation and does not always occur. Some users do excelelnt H.264 all the time. Obviously not from AE, as it is the wrong tool for the task. QTPro is the minimum, other tools such as Sorenson Squeeze, ProCoder, Cleaner etc. are even better.

Mylenium
KristopherLee
01-06-2008, 04:16 PM
Please search this forum.

If you would have read my edit, you would have seen that I did search it. All I asked was that a good idea to compress from something else. Thanks....
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