Rendering After Effects for Youtube

[Enaver]

Hey everyone,

Im having massive problems when rendering my footage. Its either really good quality & to big file size for youtube or its bad quality & really small file size. I dont know much about render settings. I have adobe after effects cs5.5 and i tend to render out in F4V files as its what i seem to get the best results for.

However i film on a canon 550d and i always notice the quality drop alot. I understand it will always drop a little but not to this extent. My eyes may be fooling me but here is my last upload.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TWz96ZgJZU&list=UUqHoE9AZ_e7wauKF4MQ54pQ&index=1&feature=plcp

Is the quality okay for a 550d?

Any advice for any plugins or render settings would be great.

Cheers

 

[sonnyboo]

Use a program like HANDBRAKE to encode the high quality, large file size into something for YouTube - like an H.264 file

 

[DeJager]

Do you have Adobe Media Encoder? I usually render out my files as H.264.

 

[Jooble]

I tend to export an animation (100% quality) quicktime as my master. If i dont care too much about having a master and just want some sort of back up ill render out a jpeg quicktime. From here ill go to adobe media encoder (or as suggested you could do this in handbrake) and convert to a H.264 as its better than a flash, there are tutorials about for the best settings for the H.264.

 

[wheatgrinder]

yeah use handbrake, looks better then adobe h264. i too render animation from ae.
Handbrake is easy to use.. it has lots of settings but I only play with the quality "Avg Bitrate"
2 pass encode..

Depending on quality desired, I adjust the avg bitrate from 5000, to 10000.

Sometimes, Ill use the max file size.. which is good for quick uploads..

 

[WalterB]

I use QuickTime Pro to encoded my uncompressed renders to H.264.
It takes longer than Adobe, but the image quality and control over the settings is much better.

(Never used Handbrake.)

 

[jmoschner]

When exporting for youtube from AE I start with the h.264 youtube hd preset then tweak from there.

If I'm really wanting to play with compression setting I export uncompressed mov then tweak in either quicktime pro or adobe media encoder depending on the final destination for the video.