Re: best quility by John Dickinson on Aug 14, 2007 at 4:41:17 am
The best quality will be uncompressed but that will give you huge file sizes. If you are using Quicktime try Animation at 100%. You could also try a Targa sequence.
Re: best quility by Steve Roberts on Aug 14, 2007 at 1:33:25 pm
Nobody uses "none" compression, by the way. As John wrote (hi, John!) try Anim at 100 or make a TGA sequence. You could also try 8-bit "uncompressed" if you have it, or a 10-bit uncompressed codec if you have it (working in 16-bit-per-channel in AE). If you don't have the disc space, try Photo-JPEG at 100% or 89%. Now Photo-JPEG will play back on most drives, but its quality is not as high as Anim or the others.
Keep in mind that the highest quality won't play back unless you have a fast RAID array. It is currently a fact of life that high-quality movies need to be further compressed (with quality loss) so they play back on a computer without skipping. Computers are not fast enough to play back high-quality movies without special hardware such as a RAID.
The reason why we render a high quality movie is not to play it back, but to *transfer* the movie to another appllication for further processing or compression. We use a high-quality codec to preserve quality between apps.
Re: best quility by Steve Roberts on Aug 14, 2007 at 7:53:12 pm
If you're on a Mac, choose the "lossless" output module.
On Windows, click on the output module setting, choose Quicktime Movie under "format", then under "Format Options", choose the animation codec. and set the Quality slider to best.
Re: best quality by Steve Roberts on Aug 14, 2007 at 8:05:55 pm
Well, I started doing those steps on the Mac, then thought to check out the Lossless Module. And There It Was. Lo and Behold. Voila. Duh. Hey Presto ... :-)
Re: best quility by Watusee on Aug 14, 2007 at 9:48:18 pm
Hi amigos !!! Im working with PC , and this machine never let me use th Microsoft DV codec, so my files are really heavy when the render is finish. I use -no compression -
Its a Pentium Dual Core 2.66 with 1 Ram GB and , two hard, one of 40 and another of 160gb. Can I use another codec, doesnt be so heavy ?
forgive my english
thanks !!
Re: best quility by Steve Roberts on Aug 14, 2007 at 11:28:51 pm
Use the Quicktime Animation codec at Best Quality.
You can access it through the Output Module in the Render Queue, which you can access by choosing composition>make movie. Look for "render queue" in the Help.
Re: best quility by skubeedoo on Aug 15, 2007 at 11:21:10 pm
What's wrong with rendering uncompressed? I tried the animation preset before and I didn't like it, so, now I render video for windows lossless and they come out perfect, large, but perfect.
