Exporting a composition with Ai vectors

What is the best format to export a composition containing Illustrator vector layers? I used to use Quicktime, but this setting doesn't seem to work as well anymore in CC.

Hey there!
I'm with Dave on this one, don't expect miracles out of PAL DV. However, if your on Mac, I would suggest Quicktime and Apple ProRes 422 codec. I usually use this to get good results out of a render.
You can also try Adobe Media Encoder and go for a h.264 with a good bitrate.
Now, these facts are not backed by any hard evidence with numbers haha, it's just what I usually go for and it works fine
Good luck!

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I have a 36 page magazine in Indesign which has a lot of illustrator images placed in, some of which have transparency applied. The images are xmas icons and there are 10 or so on each illustrator file so there are only 3/4 illustrator files placed but they are done many times over within the Indesign file.
When I export to PDF the file size is huge. 154mb. I am sure it is to do with the vectors/transparency, but dont know how to correct this to bring the PDF file size down. Any ideas?
Thanks

To echo Peter's response, 154 MB for a 36 page magazine is not necessarily all that large, especially if the content is graphically rich.
There is some information you are not providing us. For example, how are you bringing in the Illustrator artwork? And with what settings are you exporting PDF?
In the first case, the most efficient way to bring Illustrator content into InDesign is to save the Illustrator artwork as PDF/X-4 and place the resultant file into InDesign. InDesign is more likely to reuse the content for PDF export if the content is placed in that manner.
In the second case, content with transparency can yield very bloated PDF if you export PDF with flattened transparency such as you would get with the PDF/X-1a or PDF/X-3 export settings from InDesign (or for the Illustrator-based imported content, PDF saved from Illustrator with such settings). Again, we recommend PDF/X-4 for PDF export maintaining live transparency and original color spaces with ICC profiles and avoiding the bloat caused by transparency flattening and conversion of RGB to CMYK.
- Dov

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Unless you care to create 80 output presets in AME I don't see it working and then even I wouldn't rely on it. AME is too notoriously error-prone. It would probably be simpler and less nerve-wrecking to create an AE script that sets up your AE render queue and creates the folders and render directly from AE...
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I have a problem exporting a spot in the right format. The customer/the upload service provider needs PAL anamorph 16:9 in ProRes codec.
When I export my FULLHD spot to these setting, the aspect ratio/the spot size turns out wrong. When opened in QT Pro the size is 720x576, what is correct, but the anamorph size quotet in brackets reads different values, for example 1020x576 but never 1024x576, what would be correct.
The service providers online software refuses to work with these wrong nunmbers...!?
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Don't resize the output but instead drop your full HD comp in a standard PAL widescreen comp, fit the HD comp horizontally and then render the new comp without using any resize controls.
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Hello @ all!
I do a research for stereoscopic workflows with the new Stereo 3D Rig in Adobe After Effects CS5.5.
I really searched the web and think there is no resource about stereoscopic workflows anywhere that I've not seen.
I even bought the Video2Brain-Tutorial hosted by Angie Taylor.
But though there are few questions remaining!
1. How can I achieve a horizontal image translation (HIT) with a parallel camera setup (without converging) to adjust my parallax?
background information: I try to compose some text-layers with my real-footage shot with a parallel setup. I know how to set the footage-parallax indepently with expressions - this is not the problem!
I don't want the Stereo 3D Rig to converge when adjusting the parallax for my compositing elements (the text-layers).
I tried it with a mix of using the stereo scene depth parameter and the scene convergence parameter, also tried the expression which avoids moving the convergence plane, but i can't manage to get the result that i want. This is because i have to decrease the stereo scene depth to about 0,1% which is too less, but otherwise the deviation of left and right view is too big. The coordinates of the text-layers are ok.
Of course i could just use the Converge to option (as everybody does this in all the stereoscopic workflow resources that are available in the web), but this creates strong keystoning effects and in a way works against the principles of stereoscopy.
Also this is not recommended by the Adobe Help Sites:
You can also use parallel virtual cameras. This technique is useful if you need to match live footage and add digital elements to that scene. Keeping the virtual camera orientations consistent with the cameras used in the footage helps to keep the perspectives of the digital elements and that of the stereo footage aligned.
[…]Real scenes are almost always shot with parallel cameras. Keep this in mind if you are trying to mix and match live footage with digital elements. If your scene consists of only 3D elements in After Effects, then it is probably safe and preferable to use converged cameras.
[Source]
Understanding stereoscopic 3D in After Effects
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/898/cpsid_89868.html
2. What about the Stereo 3D Rig for compositing purposes with footage rendered out of Cinema 4D?
I try to figure out a stereoscopic workflow in After Effects allowing me to make use of the composition-project-file that i exported out of Cinema 4D.
After importing the file i have my left and right camera and some Nullobjects as placeholders which are supposed to be replaced by some other 3D-elements in After Effects (e.g. text-layer).
Actually, the cameras have already the right data and could be used, but the of course creates left and right Eye View automatically based on the Master Cam.
Is there any idea for using the Stereo 3D Rig in a stereoscopic workflow to make a compositing with data exported out of Cinema 4D?
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Best,
Paul

Hi Paul,
1.
Sounds like you're hitting a limitation of 3D glasses effect. The HIT (or scene convergence in 3D glasses) works on the pixel level and does not calculate sub pixel.
Here are some things you can try.
Use this expressionin in 3D glasses scene convergence to cancel out your stereo scene depth more robustly and allow you to either change your scene convergence in pixels, or in % of comp width.
if ( effect("ADBE Stereo 3D Controls")("ADBE Stereo 3D Controls-0006") == 0 ) {
    offset = effect("ADBE Stereo 3D Controls")("ADBE Stereo 3D Controls-0003");
    if ( effect("ADBE 3D Glasses2")(5) == 1 ){
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} else {
    value;
Now you can switch your 3D glasses units to pixels and change your convergence by 1 pixel at a time, instead of 0.1% of comp width.
If that is not enough control another option if you need sub pixel accuracy; you will need to recreate what 3D glasses scene convergence is doing manually using precomps. Try Precomping your left and right eye comps and then then hook up an expression to those comps x position, left comp moves right the right moves left. Put that slider right next to 3D glasses, and now you should be able to adjust the convergence by sub pixels. Another benefit of this method is it doesn't crop, you will get only one image on the edges though.
(This is a bug in 3D glasses, it should really operate with sub pixel values but we ran out of time to do this feature).
2.
I'm not as familiar with the C4D workflow. Can you import their stereo cameras directly in AE? If so, you can set up your Master cam to follow one of their cameras and set the mode to be Left or Right hero. Then match their convergence settings. You could try ploppling their cameras into the left and right eye comps above the AE camera so it uses theirs as the active camera if you don't want to deal with matching settings, but then you can't make quick changes to the camera without changing both cameras exactly.
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After Effects Engineering (the guy that made the stereo rig and who is responsible for your pain)

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I'm not the most competent with Premiere and am having a few problems exporting my final movie.
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Hmmm...
I did a quick test in your behalf with a test project with and without "alpha glow" applied to all of the media.
The results were actually kind of strange:
- export to .mp4 utilized all cores (6-core box w/ Hyperthreads) with a smooth 82% utilization for the whole export; memory usage (also from task manager) went up and once it hit a maximum, it stayed there
- export to .mp4 with "alpha glow" applied -> CPU usage started out pretty good, then memory usage maxed out and then actually cam down; after a bit, the CPU usage stabilized at around 22%, or about 25% of what it had been at the start of the export
Smells to me like an Adobe bug or design-flaw.
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Regards,
Jim

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Export to excel with formatting was autowrapping text in a cell

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I have following problem. I´m creating our variable price list for our customers. "variable" means an interactive pdf for our customers where they can edit the prices, product discription etc.
I can paginate our catalogue with "Easy Catalogue" including all interactive textfields. It looks like this:
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Find another printer.
End of problem. It really saddens me to think that these Luddites are
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