H.264 compression gives gradients hard edges, lossless filesizes are too large for uploading, whats
When I've rendered a HD movie from After Effects CS3 with lossless animation settings the quality is beautiful and crisp but I want to upload my videos to sites like Vimeo so that I can use them in my website http://www.splurj.com and the file size is way too large (in the region of 6GB).
When I've rendered the lossless video using H.264 compression the filesize is great but it losses quality. The colours become slightly saturated and any gradients have a hard edge.
Can anyone tell me the best compression software (or way of rendering direct from After Effects) to maintain quality and reduce filesize significantly?
>Can anyone tell me the best compression software (or way of >rendering direct from After Effects) to maintain quality and reduce >filesize significantly?
As per the others' suggestions: Export a Photo-JPEG encoded file from AE, then use external tools. Additional programs not yet mentioned include ProCoder, SUPER©, TMPEG Enc., but QT Pro would be a good investment to start with and probably the cheapest solution to the immediate problem. It also provides additional ways of embedding extra info in the clip and adjust a few problems post-encode, if necessary.
>With AE, since the "next" frame doesn't really exist yet, it can't
>possibly provide the best compression.
That's a bit oversimplifying the case. If exported via the specific MPEG-2/MPEG-4/H.264/FLV writers, the frames will be buffered in the writers themselves until valid (sub-)GOPs can be written. The only thing it doesn't do, is to analyze beyond the bounds of such a packet, hence the efficiency of the underlying algorithms is impaired. And of course it depends on what you plan on doing with the stuff. Even with its limitations, the process works quite well for DVD/BluRay work for instance...
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