Comments on: The After Effects Output Module Exposed

By: Anthony Proulx

Anthony Proulx — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:03:47 +0000

Great list! Very useful, I will share with fellow designers.

By: Topher Welsh

Topher Welsh — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 03:34:09 +0000

hmm interesting… I have never actually encountered that problem, partly because the H.264 compression by default is already pretty good for me…

By: Topher Welsh

Topher Welsh — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:02:26 +0000

I think that Quicktime is the way things are moving, but I don’t think that it will ever get completely phased out.

By: Tobias

Tobias — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:31:44 +0000

Thank you so much for sharing this knowledge! I do have aquestion unanswered: is it true .avi is going to be extinct?

By: Arvin

Arvin — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:09:49 +0000

That’s what I mean, though… you can alter the bitrate yourself, but it makes no difference, it never renders at that bitrate. It feels like it’s around 4000 kb, but that may just be at the resolution I have my “web” output template set up as.

The point is, if I tell it to set a max bitrate of 1400 kb/sec, it won’t render as such. Unless I’m completely wrong.

By: Topher Welsh

Topher Welsh — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:06:29 +0000

Are you sure? This fix has worked for me to send through FTP to my bosses on numerous occasions… are you sure that you are saving the file? if the file is an .mp4 you have to save it as an .mov (and essentially create another file) to have the fix applied. if it is an h.264 *.mov* to begin with, you just have to save the file.

I think the fix only is applied into a .mov file extension.. I don’t know why, but that works for me.

By: eladbari

eladbari — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:54:42 +0000

hey Topher!
thanx for the reply :]
yes, i remember watching that Gamma fix, Andrew was talking bout.
BUT…this fixes only your computer\quicktime player. The file stays the same [washed out] as it was, if u send it to other people\clients to watch.
theres gotta be a permanent solution for the file itself..
i wonder if there is sucha thing…

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:42:07 +0000

Yeah this looks great, that gamma fix on V.C. rocks aswell. Thanks for the post my good man.

By: Topher Welsh

Topher Welsh — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 15:30:27 +0000

you gotta check out Andrew Kramer’s fix over on videocopilot.net/blog just search “Gamma” its the first post.

I got a tutorial coming over at blog.videohive.net next week.

By: eladbari

eladbari — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:46:23 +0000

yeah…took me AGES to figure it out, myself. so now ppl who read this save a LOT of time and frustration on this damn rendering stage :]