Posts Tagged ‘begginers shuld know before rendereing’

After Effects for newbie users

I have been working lately on After Effects CS3, and I am a newbie I have to admit. So I’m writing you to help other newbies which want to work on after effects small projects, a quick solution to some of the problems I’ve faced this week.

When you make a project and want to save it as a video file, you should not use the File->Export menu, because no matter what option you’ll choose the output quality will be terrible. Instead you should go to Composition and Make Movie (while your on your main composition). Then you will have to press the render button, but believe me you better do not click on it right away because you will get good quality uncompressed file. But the uncompressed file will take more then 1GB of your disk space if you compile a 30 sec. project, and you can not even play it normal, because any video player can’t play normally a 30 sec. clip which size its more then 1GB.

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