Rendering AE Projects with Adobe Media Encoder

[izvarzone]

Hi, can you help me? When I use Media Encoder, it adds unwanted black borders at top and bottom. I already added them to left and right, but it adds them anyway, and my videos have all 4 borders.

[graymachinedotcom]

@izvarzone It sounds like your output size differs from your source size. AME adds black when the sizes differ. Just check the output dimensions to make sure they match your source.

[OwainS]

Super-cool Harry! Picked this up from your Twitter feed. Very useful to know - funnily enough I had found the Background Renderer Script just yesterday! Any preference between the two in your opinion?

[bobabest]

Yeah, background rendering. Why not to say that in the beginning, rather than go through the steps as a monkey?

[graymachinedotcom]

@bobabest Read the description of the video.

[bobabest]

@graymachinedotcom I admit, havent' read it -- we are on youtube, we are supposed to watch, right? It's an irritation induced by the thousands of tutorials, which lack introducing a general structure, most of the time, so one has to spend ones invaluable time listen to the end to understand whether one needs it or not.

[graymachinedotcom]

The focus of the tutorial is how to use the Adobe Media Encoder to render. That is the name of the video. That is what I say at the beginning of the video.

[eladbari]

@graymachinedotcom Damn this ProRes codec. All tuts talk about this codec, but there are also some PC users out there. Any similar quality codec on the PC that you could use instead?

Quicktime Photo-Jpeg is too big [not to talk about Animation preset also]..so this leaves you with the normal plain old H.264.. :\

[graymachinedotcom]

@eladbari Choosing ProRes in this tutorial was pretty arbitrary for me. It wasn't meant as an endorsement of the codec. It was just a part of the demo.

I'd stick with Animation, which is what I've used for years and still use to this day. It's big, but it looks good.

[graymachinedotcom]

@eladbari Choosing ProRes in this tutorial was pretty arbitrary for me. It wasn't meant as an endorsement of the codec. It was just a part of the demo.

I'd stick with Animation, which is what I've used for years and still use to this day. It's big, but it looks good.

[eladbari]

@graymachinedotcom yeah, I totally understand it wasnt for endorsing the codec. This whole rendering topic could be too much sometimes, when youre looking for the perfect codec to balance quality vs. file size. Animation preset can also not play well on some machines, I guess due to the high bitrate. I guess you could get 2GB file size for a 10 second clip [!!].

[MotionRevolver]

Great tutorial! I had no idea this was even possible! Learned something new today... time to go home.

Thanks Harry!

[lasvideo]

Thanks!

[lasvideo]

Good to know , Harry. Just one question, why would I want to use the AME as opposed to just using AE's render que? Are there any advantages?

[graymachinedotcom]

@lasvideo The biggest one I can think of is background rendering.

[billyshears24]

Thank you Harry!