From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite

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Render quality - After Effects Tutorial

From the course: After Effects Apprentice: 17 Video Walls in Cinema 4D Lite

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Render quality

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- We've spent a fair amount of time improving the appearance of our video wall. Now let's switch our focus to After Effects and compositing other elements on top of this wall. I'll make sure my Cinema 4D project has been saved, switch programs back to After Effects. Let's start by talking about render quality. Obviously this software render is not going to be acceptable for final output for a client. You do have two other choices: Standard Draft... which does perform a nicer render of the scene, and particularly of the video, although I'm not getting my nice reflective metallic texture, and I'm not getting my lighting effects like specular highlights. Standard Final is what you want to use for your final render, but as you'll see, it takes considerably longer to render. Although you can choose these three different render engines inside the Cineware plugin, if you really want to tweak your render quality, you have to do that back in Cinema 4D. And there are a couple things you might…

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