Now that I'm in PC land I decided to explore alternative codecs. I was interested to see variances in render times and file size.
I took the "Dancin Footloose" project and exported it first as UT (AVI) then DNxHD (QT). They took about the same time to export (6:30 for an effects heavy 3:09 timeline). The UT file was 7GB and the DNxHD was 3GB. Close inspection revealed no discernible difference.
Somehow I thought getting away from Quicktime wrapped codecs would speed things up. This was not the case in this test.
Tom Daigon
PrP / After Effects Editor
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