loss of quality in AE

the_satanic_COokie · Post by **the_satanic_COokie** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 4:02 pm

Ok you've prolly seen somone ask this a few times...

After editing some clips in AE, I really have no idea how to export it without losing any quality... is it even possible?

It sucks that every clip in my movie that has been edited in AE looks like a** garbage...

any tips or anything? PLeease?

Magic-Man · Post by **Magic-Man** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:04 pm

to be honest, i need to know this as well. I think when you export your project from A.E, go into the settings, put the quality to high or maximum and put the compression settings to none. I am not sure but i think that might be the solution

the_satanic_COokie · Post by **the_satanic_COokie** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:40 pm

hmm I that makes sense...

but I would hope I would have the common sense to set it that way anyway...maybe I'm just an idiot...I can't remember...editing a movie by yourself is so f*** asanine sometimes...

ipon70 · Post by **ipon70** » Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:32 pm

Can you post the two images, post one prior to edit and after of the same frame. We have done extensive work in AE and haven't had this issue. Maybe I can look at the images and see something obvious that is wrong or set wrong.

Thanks

crossfire · Post by **crossfire** » Sat Jul 09, 2005 2:56 am

its a small but and barely noticable thing, same problem in premiere i find, maybe im jus tired after rendering that i see it all messed but i think that it does lose some color information, could be due to NTSC type thingy...

BrownCowStudios · Post by **BrownCowStudios** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 4:14 am

Make sure you are going to "Composition > Make Movie..." rather than "File > Export..."

crossfire · Post by **crossfire** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:39 pm

who me? .... :dammit: i didnt know that there was such a thing in premiere, DOH?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! thx lol

Faldor · Post by **Faldor** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 11:17 am

make sure the quality is set to high on the video and then render it out at as a lossless windows video, render that in premiere and your fine

aaronv2 · Post by **aaronv2** » Tue Jul 12, 2005 1:27 pm

if you import the movie into AE the project window shows you the size compression and frame rate etc.
are you sure your exporting the same settings? or even creating the composition the same size? otherwise if its none of those things you have a problem.

crossfire · Post by **crossfire** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 1:43 am

iunno ill experiment a bit thx, i jus used export timeline LOL, i guess i didnt see the composition thing, ill see wats wrong and if i hav da same problem

andrew_107 · Post by **andrew_107** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 5:37 am

Yeah I also have the exact same problem.

aaronv2 · Post by **aaronv2** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:11 am

you have to choose composite>make movie which will make a rendered video of what you have in the current composition your working on... when the window comes up with encoding options you have complete control over everything you can even change the frame rate if you want to... just take the time to learn all the techy side of video theres a bunch of information i think people who are serious about the work need to know

MasterMike · Post by **MasterMike** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 12:29 pm

As your manual will explain, you should use the render queue.

DEDFX · Post by **DEDFX** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:20 pm

I feel your pain, I also did export >movie.

crossfire · Post by **crossfire** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 3:44 pm

ya so i got to start re-rendering my movies

, by the way, does it take more time if you go to composition>make movie?

DEDFX · Post by **DEDFX** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:12 pm

I don't see compostition and how do you make the quality high?

aaronv2 · Post by **aaronv2** » Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:21 pm

dude how long have you had AE read up on some basic tutorials and stuff before asking specifics you need to learn how it works before you know how to get what you want out of it

Magic-Man · Post by **Magic-Man** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 5:51 pm

you guys are talkin about premiere. We are talkin about A.E. You don't work with compositions on Premiere, thats After effects. You should know that, well now you do

how do you make the quality high?

When you export something from premiere, go into settings and the quality and colour controls are in there

bretoncrackers · Post by **bretoncrackers** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:17 pm

[quote="Magic-Man"]you guys are talkin about premiere. We are talkin about A.E. You donmagic man is right, you have to define what platform you're using if you want help. For premiere, when you export your film, you don't have to go lossless to maintain quality, i usually stick to the standard DV codec they supply, with almost no loss in quality. As for after effects, you can go to export movie or make movie in either the file or composition tabs, it doesnt really matter, as long as you stick with the dv codec they have (there's DV stream, which is quicktime format, or you can export as an .AVI and select DV after in the video compression menu).

DEDFX · Post by **DEDFX** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 5:37 pm

Ya, I was talking about premiere, stupid me.

crossfire · Post by **crossfire** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 9:54 pm

ya ok i got kinda scared when i couldnt find the composition menu. SO now to help us with our problem, how do you fix the problem in PREMIERE, i dont use any codecs, (full frames uncompressed (the file is enourmous but thats ok ) but for soem reason (even though the color is set to millions+) it still loses colour info!

DEDFX · Post by **DEDFX** » Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:40 pm

Maybe because Premiere sucks????

Carnage7p · Post by **Carnage7p** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 4:16 am

don't start, and nobody else make any comments about the mac vs. pc thing because that sounded like it was in that general category.

DEDFX · Post by **DEDFX** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 5:03 am

My Premiere is horrible.

crossfire · Post by **crossfire** » Wed Aug 10, 2005 3:11 pm

Well i just got the trial for After Effects 6.5 Proffesional 2 days ago, and i can already tell that AE is much more powerful but at the same time more complex. Premiere doesnt have the special effects capabilities of After Effects but its role isnt really cutting edge special effects. They both have their uses

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