I have a couple current projects that involve rendering to a format for the web and i’m wondering what would be the best way to do this. I used to use Sorenson but I don’t see that option in After Effects anymore.
Should I use Quicktime? DivX? Flash? What settings should I use?
I use Quicktime H.264. You can also wrap h.264 in Flash (.f4v).
Check out the Green Soda blog for a handy reference to AE export options.
http://greensoda.squarespace.com/blog/2009/7/5/video-formats-explained.html
That depends how long is your animation. H264 is a bad quality but at 320x240 is ok. If you required the video to loop and is a short animation about 10sec than swf will be ok, that depends in how complex is your images if they have gradients,shades,etc…if they are wireframes dont use swf cause your lines are gonna be lost.
If you are gonna export to flas go to the file menu-export-adobe flash(swf)
is recommneded to export from ae the best output as possible and converted into something like MPEGstream clip http://www.squared5.com/
or kigo video converter http://www.kigo-video-converter.com/
which are free if you are on a mac.
Good luck
Edgard
Thanks for the reply guys…
I’m looking to have about 30 seconds of animation. With wireframes…
Would Divx be good?
What makes you say that? I’ve seen plenty of reels with tonnes of detail, all compressed using h264.
The OP’s other option is to upload to Vimeo and embed it on your page.
Yep but they are not exported fro AE that is for sure, if you dont believe me than try it your self.
Edgard
you can upload large movs to vimeo (they convert) and embed it in your webpage, it’ll save you bandwidth and the player is simple and the encoding pretty sweet
good deal!
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