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After Effects for Compression?
by James Fletcher (James Andrew) on Jun 17, 2008 at 9:51:36 am

I'm using After Effects cs3 to do some final color timing to a 720p HD music video. I'm working off of uncompressed 720p quicktime files, and when I'm done, I plan to compress the video to the H.264 codec for upload to websites such as Vimeo.

My question is, can I do the compression out of After Effects, or would I get better results by rendering out uncompressed and then using something like Compression or Sorenson Squeeze?

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Re: After Effects for Compression?
by Daniel Low on Jun 18, 2008 at 9:30:24 pm

You might get better quality out of a dedicated encoding package but if you are then uploading to the likes of Vimeo, you're unlikely to be able to tell the difference with the end result.

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Re: After Effects for Compression?
by James Fletcher on Jun 18, 2008 at 10:42:49 pm

Thanks for the reply, Daniel. I'm totally new to the world of compression.

I plan to do a couple of tests in order to make my final decision.

A related question would be if it's best to use After Effects to convert 24p to 30i or if a dedicated compressor would work better.



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