From the course: Motion Graphics for Social Media
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Output video for social media - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: Motion Graphics for Social Media
Output video for social media
- [Instructor] When outputting a file from After Effects, I'd always choose a high quality format. Now we can add our composition to the render queue and choose an output format. Because I'm using a Mac, I'm going to choose Pro Res and I even have my own presets already set up. I find Pro Res LT to be pretty good. It's a decent balance between quality and file size, but choose the right format for your operating system. Once this master is rendered from After Effects, I then export a compressed version using Adobe Media Encoder. Media Encoder has many useful presets, so we'll add our footage and you can see if we drop down we have lots of different presets that we can use. I'm going to choose the YouTube 1080 preset and we're pretty much good to go. Keep in mind that your file may get recompressed once uploaded to the social media platform. So you could choose to upload the full res file if your internet connection is…
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