From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 15 Creating a Sports Opening Title
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Outputting for web - After Effects Tutorial
From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 15 Creating a Sports Opening Title
Outputting for web
Finally, your client may ask you for a small web version, such as half size, particularly with high-def video. It's very common to deliver 960 wide, rather than a 1920 wide final render. So from the Output Module there, After Effects gives you several different options: Flash video, the newer flavor of it, that's based on the H.264 Codec or H.264 itself. H.264 has become a very common web format, but again, check with your client, see what they want. Depending on which variant you choose, After Effects does provide some additional format options for the Encoder. I'll cancel out of there. If your client is asking for say a half-size video, again, this is where the Resize dialog comes in handy. In this case I kept Lock Aspects Ratio on, and I set up half of the dimensions for the Width, and automatically I was given half dimensions for the Height. Just your client may ask you for different target size depending on the layout of, say, the web page. Maybe there are columns or say 620…
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