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Exporting a movie-based animation from After Effects

Exporting a movie-based animation from After Effects

From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Exporting a movie-based animation from After Effects

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- [Instructor] When you're ready to export, it's pretty straightforward. Now, AfterEffects has a robust render queue, but I'm going to show you an easy way to create content. From the File menu, simply choose File, Export, Add to Adobe Media Encoder. This will send the project to Adobe Media Encoder, where you'll find a variety of presets for export. The project will appear in the render queue. You'll notice from the pop up menu you have several different choices. If you don't want to make a Quicktime movie, you'll also see other choices here such as H.264 and the match source high bitrate will produce a file that's well-optimized for social media. If you need to create professional formats, you can always select the item and add another output module and choose something like a Quicktime movie and set that to something like the GoPro Cineform codec for a high quality file. Now, let's add the other one. I'll choose my other composition and say File, Export, Add to Adobe Media Encoder…

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