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How should I export my video?

How should I export my video?

One of the After Effects questions that I hear most often is, how should I export my video? What file format, what method of compression should I use? This isn't really an impossible question to answer. It's almost like asking me like what kind of car you should buy or what city you should live in. It's going to be very widely based on your needs, the situation, the client, and where it's going to be posted and all that kind of stuff. So, let's talk about this a little bit. I am going to go to Render Queue, hit the Tilde key to maximize this, and go ahead and click the Lossless text to open up the Output Module. As mentioned before, we can use the Format dropdown to choose a variety of formats. As I mentioned before, Image Sequences really are very beneficial to me. I love using Sequences. And every time you see the word sequence, IFF Sequence, JPEG Sequence, PNG Sequence, these are all still image file formats. There is also audio file formats, such as WAV, and there is also video…

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