Communigate Pro AE-List@media-motion.tv Message 64973

Jonathan

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From: "Cary Spenser"
To: "After Effects Mail List"
Cc:
Sent: Thursday March 14 2019 3:05:43PM
Subject: Re: [AE] PC Video

The preset for high quality 1080p is set to 20mbps. That will never play smoothly in PPT. Better to ratchet it down to 8mbps target bitrate and use VBR 2 pass encoding or use the preset labelled Facebook 1080p.

For delivering sporing event clips to a major network, we use 1080p30 @ 10mbps 2 pass VBR as the “mezzanine” or intermediate format from which they compress copies to a wide variety of specs and send them to broadcast partners. Never any need to exceed that. Many laptops struggle to decode video at higher data rates.

Cary

On March 14, 2019 at 3:49:02 PM, sureal (ae-list@media-motion.tv) wrote:

Hey, gang.

I have ProRes animations that I need to play from a PC running Powerpoint. (Don’t ask . . .) I ran the files through Media Encoder, selecting a high bit-rate H264 with an extension of MP4. It seems to work although Powerpoint seems to be spinning it’s wheels before starting the next clip. But is that the best way to go about it?

Many thanks. Apologies for the slightly off-topic.

Jonathan Penzner