Render Compressors

Compositing
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I have been trying to compress a composition in an avi format file using any one of the options included in the Adobe After Effects 6.0 Pro and couldn't determine the correct setting. I want that the film's compression(consists of a sequence of Targa images, and the composition amounts to a total of 5 minutes film, at 24 fps) does not unduly affect the picture quality and yet be small enough that it could be burned into a 700 MB CD-ROM and be played from most of the CD-Drives.

I tried the Cinepak compression with keying at every 24 frames, but the picture quality wasn't that great and also, the brightness varies intermittently (cinepak reduced the size of the render to 130 MB, which was estimated at around 6.2 GB if uncompressed).Also, playback from the CD drive is poor. The render resolution was 640x480 and I would like to keep this much at least. What other options to try ? I tried nearly all , but couldn't find the right one. I also tried rendering a quicktime, but strangely no sound was forthcoming(the video quality was good). Can anyone help, many thanks.

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Hi,
does it have to be Quicktime? Otherwise you might want to try to create wmv-files, they can get pretty small with acceptable quality.
For Quicktime I' look at mpeg4 or sorensen3

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mpeg4 would work fine. Finding the right codec is always a pain. Try www.3ivx.com. Once you install the codec and restart AE, it should be available in the list.

I had some problems with it, but they were quickly fixed by setting the lower limit of compression lower.

j.

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hi ankuragarwal,

did u turn on the settings for audio before u rendered quicktime out?
maybe this could be the point.
i prefer also quicktime.
hope everything is fine now for u.
greetz telepilot