Output .mov file is huge

Hello everyone,
I sent my friend two 45 mb .mov files to alter in afer effects. after he was done with the first 45 mb clip, he rendered and exported it out and his file is now 1.1 gb. Why did the file become so large? I need his edited footage to be a reasonable size so he can DropBox it and I can put it back into final cut pro. Plesae help!

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Why is my output file huge, and why doesn't it play back smoothly in a media player?

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Same here, I find it unbelievable this occurs and there doesn't seem te be a solution. Is it something developpers know about but can't solve so ignore all the discussions about it?
It seems so simple to me: whether the monitor is calibrated or not, whatever monitor it is, when I place the exported movie window in Quicktime, and one in VLC, next to the Speedgrade window, all on the same monitor, it all should look the same right?! Ok, so I hear Quicktime does its own calibration while playing.
I'm working on a project now which are product films, the end result is a room where everything is white (not overexposed, all details are in there), the product black and blue, plus a model (brown skin).
I'm including a few screenshots of the same shot in different players. Speedgrade, VLC, Quicktime, MPEG Streamclip. MPEG Streamclip comes closest to the Speedgrade monitor. How can I possibly sell this to my client? This is shown on laptops at presentations, beamers via laptops (probably all Windows), big screens with a built-in mediaplayer etc, and most important: online! on youtube/ vimeo.. Not operated by experts, no control over which player is used.
The films will probably almost always be shown by someone doubleclicking on the file, so it opens in the systems standard movieplayer, Quicktime or Windows Media Player. It just has to look good in this! How do I do this?
When I place the exported clip on top of my Speedgrade timeline, it does change (the whole histogram range shifts brighter).
edit: I now exported with Automatic Color Calibration ON, the results has better contrast/ resembles contrast I see in Speedgrade. Placing this clip on top of my Speedgrade timeline shows almost exactly the same. Export to ProRes4444 AutCC: Histogram expands tiny tiny bit, can't see a change in the monitor it's so small.
Export to ProRes422 AutCC: Histogram expands a bit, you can see a slight change in the monitor (whites bit brighter, black bit darker). But acceptable.
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quicktime
vlc
mpeg streamclip
These screenshots look exactly the same as how the colors are in the viewer the screenshots comes from, even when I place this browser window next to it on the same (calibrated) monitor.
Thanks for any tips..
Peter
edit 2: The frustration gets worse. Playing the clip (prores 422 with Automatic Color calibration) in Preview (Mac, by hitting spacebar when on the file in Finder) shows EXACTLY what I see in Speedgrade monitor! It feels like the solution is out there somewhere but I can't reach it (cause no one will actually play the video in Preview).
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I'm running a dual core Vista machine with 4 megs ram. I have the paid version of Elements 9
I tape actors auditioning for movie roles. Most producers/agencies want .mov files.
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After reading some of your stuff, (I'm buying the book btw!) ... I do think I'm closing in on the right preset and camera settings now.
I still need to tweak for larger frame size like 720X??? (I can't remember, so used to 4:3 instead of 6X9!)) and rather than the old amd small 420X280. Along with keeping the size down with the kbps settings and "quality" slider in "advanced settings."
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Canon HG10 :Merging mov files and output on a Mac

Hi,
I'm on MacOSX 10.5.8 and currently working on a little video project.
I must admit my ignorance on the subject is comparable to my grandma asking how to send an email. So please be nice
I have several .mov videos imported from my Canon HG10 at the highest resolution (which according to Quicktime Movie Inspector is 1888x1062 - FPS 29.97).
Now I need to a) merge all of them into one file and b) convert the output onto a much lighter but still good quality format (H.264 mp4?).
I spent a good few hours on iMovie but since I don't need to edit the video it looked like I was pretty much wasting my time.
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Here's Avids answer:
Pro50 codecs only work in Macs, so the original files need to be EXPORTED from FCP with a special codec Avid created for Mac.
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Using Toast, Encore, or FCS 3 you can move toward blu-ray authoring and encoding. In Toast and FCS 3 you can make AVCHD disks which are blu-ray disks put onto single or dual-layer DVDs which is a huge cost savings. Your encoding is limited to 17 Mbps, but in h.264 that will still allow for decent quality. Encore will let you design a complete disk but it doesn't make AVCHD disks - you'll need to jump through some hoops in order to take an Encore project (but it can be done). Here's a workflow for that. As a side note this workflow is for using Final Cut Express - in FCS you have the added benefit of being able to work with 23.98 fps timelines.
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Scrren shot of how my animation looks in After Effects CS6 (on the left), vs. how it looks when rendered to a .mov file. (on the right). See how washed-out the colors look?
I am on a Mac, latest software versions and OSX.7.4. The source material is in RGB mode, Color Setting is Adobe RGB 1998, which is my wRGB working space. Color settings are synchronized across the entire suite. In the AE project settings, I see that color management is turned on and we are indeed in the Adobe RGB 1998 color space.
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--Carol Gunn
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Read this FAQ: What is the best format for rendering and exporting from After Effects?
Then I would suggest trying a different codec. When you send your comp to the Render Queue it says lossless next ot the Output Module Settings, that means that it's using After Effect's defualt lossless settings, which uses a codec called Animation. Animation is an ancient codec that delivers huge files and it isn't used so much in production anymore. If you click on lossless the Output Module Settings screen will come up where you can change the format of your render and you can change the codec by hitting the Format Options button.
I've seen that washed out issue before with the Animation codec and just did some tests. I also played with the Color Management settings using the Animation codec by going to the upper right hand tab in the Output Module Settings menu. That seemed to have no effect on the final look of the render. A quicktime render with the Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) codec seems to match the AE screenshot almost identically.
Unfortunately, you can't get the ProRes codecs without having either Final Cut Pro installed or Apple Motion. I think it's possible to buy them from the Apple website. However, there are other lossless codecs you can try such as Uncompressed YUV 10bit or 8bit, but I just did a test and I got a much darker render than the ProRes renders and the screenshot. Judge for yourself what's best...
If you want ot know more, here's an FAQ on the basics of rendering and exporting in AE...
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f4 a.html#WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79f1a

AE CS5 only see black when playing a rendered mov file in QT

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> Is there a codec missing from my AE?
That wouldn't cause the file to play fine in some places and not elsewhere.
This is a gigantic file in terms of horizontal pixel dimensions, and the data rate is quite large, too (nearly 200MB for only 8 seconds). I suspect some combination of QuickTime Player and the computer on which you're trying to play it (e.g., slow hard disks).
Does it really matter whether this can play in QuickTime Player? We've seen that it plays in post-production software. Has the client tried playing it in the way that it will actually be played/used---i.e., on the LED screen at the arena?
And, again, are you and they really sure that this huge losslessly compressed format is what is required? As I said before, this is very much not the kind of format that is intended for playback and distribution. Uncompressed files and files compressed with Animation are intended for purposes like use as intermediate files in post-production, not playback.

Large mov files rendered

My camera produced a 14-second video 1280 x 720 pixels into a 48 MB mov file. Opening that in Photoshop CS6, making no changes, and rendering that in Quicktime with the JPEG 2000 high quality preset, Photoshop produced a 346 MB mov file. Reducing the original video size to 600 x 338 pixels and rendering in Quicktime with the JPEG 2000 medium quality preset, I still got a 67 MB mov file.
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When you choose JPEG 2000 as a video format, every frame is saved as a complete individual still frame. There is no way you will get a small file size that way. (Other video formats save space by saving one frame, then record only the changes in the next several frames before saving another complete frame.) The complete individual frames preserve the most quality if you're going to use the rendered video as part of another production. The other two QuickTime choices, Animation and Uncompressed, also produce large files for the same reason. They're also intended for production, not final output. If you're going to take this video and edit it together with other clips, then JPEG 2000 makes sense but you have to live with the large file size.
If you are rendering this out as a final video and your next step is to upload it online, QuickTime/JPEG 2000 is not the format you want. Change the Format from QuickTime to H.264, which is the far more compact and online-friendly format required by YouTube, Vimeo, etc. for uploading to their sites.

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TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
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stop();
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next frame
stop();
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portfolio.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickSection);
contact.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickSection);
AD5.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickSection);
AD6.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, clickSection);
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I have absolutely no idea and right now it seams like a maze trapped in the puzzel trapped in pac man,
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cheers

hey man this is a screen shot from frame 3, there is nothing in frame 16 which makes me wonder

Capturing multiple video streams into a movie file

I am using QTKit to capture 3 media streams simultaneously: audio, video, and display (display is screen capture), and would like to capture them in a time-synchronized fashion to a single .mov file.
I have been able to successfully capture these three streams to 2 separate .mov files by using 2 QTCaptureSessions (one for audio/video, one for display video), but the problem here is that the 2 files are not time-synchronized (I have no idea how to synch them after the fact).
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Steve

As posted by Andy Mees...
perhaps more realistic (and fcp friendly) would be this:
http://www.virtualvtr.com/pictureready/index.html
or this gem that popped up on the LAFCPUG boards a few days ago ... well worth a gander
http://www.softronmedia.com/products/products/mvr.html
...in this thread...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5968334&#5968334
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K

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Hi!
Can anyone tell me how to edit .mov files in iMovie '09 without losing quality?
I have perfectly fine looking screen capture video from iShowU. It's 1024x768, 30 fps, Animation compression codec. It's a .mov file that looks great played in the QuickTime player. I can't even tell it's a movie -- it just looks like the screen I captured.
Now, I bring it into iMovie '09, trim the ends, and Export to QuickTime using no compression and the same fps and size. The output quality is noticeably lower than the input quality, which makes no sense to me because I'm telling the export not to compress (and my Preferences are set to "Import HD video as Full-Original Size".
I just want to trim the ends off a video -- maybe combine a couple files -- but without wrecking the quality of the originals. That really doesn't sound like it should be all that hard, but so far, it's been impossible.
Any pointers are greatly appreciated!!
-- gnagent

I've found the answer. On the File/Import/Movies... dialog, uncheck "Optimize Video" even if you have "Full - Original Size" selected. You don't want any optimizations done, even at original size. Then make sure you are exporting at precisely the same size as the original file, which means that under the Export to Quicktime/Options/Video Size dialog you do NOT want to check "Preserve aspect ratio using:" Just use "Custom" size and set your size to exactly what "Get Info" tells you when you view the file in the Finder.
Make sure that Video/Settings is set to Compression Type: None, and that you have the Frame Rate exactly what your original was.
Hope this helps someone.
-- gnagent

What is the best way to move files to different folders in a plug-in?

I am writing a plug-in that needs to move files on the hard drive. I am using LrFileUtils.move(from, to) and everything is fine except that the catalog is not updated when the file is moved. After the plug-in runs I can use Library > Synchronize Folder to get the catalog back in sync with the new locations of the photos on the drive, but this manual step is less than ideal.
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Can anyone recommend a better way to move photos to different folders within a plug-in that also updates the catalog?

Hi Andy,
There are 3 main file formats that you can consider writing your data out to in LabVIEW:
ASCII
Binary
Datalog
ASCII
ASCII files are useful because every operating system and almost every application can read/write ASCII format files. Use ASCII files when:
Other users or applications will need to access the data file.
You will not need to perform random access file I/O
File I/O speed is not crucial
Disk space is not crucial
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Binary
Binary byte stream files are more specific to data storage and retrieval. Use b
inary files when:
File I/O will remain in LabVIEW only -- no other applications will be needing to write/read that file. There is no standard formatting for binary files and thus other applications or operating systems may be unable to read the file.
Files are smaller than ASCII files
Easier and faster random access to data
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I was trying this example:
Generating a Movie File from a List of (JPEG) Images
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/solutions/JpegImagesToMovie.java
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root - /home/robertmarkbram/java/jmf/classes
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-o file:///home/robertmarkbram/CoolCampus/media/jpgOut.mov\
file:///BigBrain3/pics/breakfast.jpg\
file:///BigBrain3/pics/eating.jpg\
file:///BigBrain3/pics/howto.jpg\
file:///BigBrain3/pics/jupiterp_cassini_full.jpg\
file:///BigBrain3/pics/jupiterp_cassini.jpg\
file:///BigBrain3/pics/spocamok.jpg- create processor for the image datasource ...
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- reading image file: file:///BigBrain3/pics/eating.jpg
- reading image file: file:///BigBrain3/pics/howto.jpg
- reading image file: file:///BigBrain3/pics/jupiterp_cassini_full.jpg
- reading image file: file:///BigBrain3/pics/jupiterp_cassini.jpg
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java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.sun.media.multiplexer.video.QuicktimeMux.writeVideoSampleDescription(QuicktimeMux.java:936)
at com.sun.media.multiplexer.video.QuicktimeMux.writeSTSD(QuicktimeMux.java:925)
at com.sun.media.multiplexer.video.QuicktimeMux.writeSTBL(QuicktimeMux.java:905)
at com.sun.media.multiplexer.video.QuicktimeMux.writeMINF(QuicktimeMux.java:806)
at com.sun.media.multiplexer.video.QuicktimeMux.writeMDIA(QuicktimeMux.java:727)
at com.sun.media.multiplexer.video.QuicktimeMux.writeTRAK(QuicktimeMux.java:644)
at com.sun.media.multiplexer.video.QuicktimeMux.writeMOOV(QuicktimeMux.java:582)
at com.sun.media.multiplexer.video.QuicktimeMux.writeFooter(QuicktimeMux.java:519)
at com.sun.media.multiplexer.BasicMux.close(BasicMux.java:142)
at com.sun.media.BasicMuxModule.doClose(BasicMuxModule.java:172)
at com.sun.media.PlaybackEngine.doClose(PlaybackEngine.java:872)
at com.sun.media.BasicController.close(BasicController.java:261)
at com.sun.media.BasicPlayer.doClose(BasicPlayer.java:229)
at com.sun.media.BasicController.close(BasicController.java:261)
at JpegImagesToMovie.controllerUpdate(JpegImagesToMovie.java:215)
at com.sun.media.BasicController.dispatchEvent(BasicController.java:1254)
at com.sun.media.SendEventQueue.processEvent(BasicController.java:1286)
at com.sun.media.util.ThreadedEventQueue.dispatchEvents(ThreadedEventQueue.java:65)
at com.sun.media.util.ThreadedEventQueue.run(ThreadedEventQueue.java:92)
Can anyone tell me what this error message means?
Thanks for any advice!
Rob
:)

I think it does that for QuickTime if you don't define the lineStride value in the VideoFormat (lineStride = pixelStride * width).

Output .mov file is huge

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