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Quoted from LuckyLuke

Whenever I render a video in After Effects, it comes out to be really big. I’ve put in a video there from about 300MB, added a little effect to it with a movie file (18MB) and made it a bit shorter, 3 seconds in total. Rendered it to best settings, lossless with sound. When rendering is finished, the video of 3 seconds seems to be 1000MB big.

Erhm…

Any help appreciated. :)

Download GSpot ( http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ ), compare the two files, what is the difference?

i can see raw bit map on the second one = big file size imho.

Quoted from LuckyLuke

But how can I change that in AE… Can’t see that setting anywhere.

I don’t know if AE supports rendering to it, but you can quite easily compress to lagarith using that codec manually through something like vdub.

Quoted from tesco

when you’ve added the composition to the render queue, click onto the render settings: xxxxx (it’s lossless for me), and select “video for windows” (.avi) and then choose lagarith under the option called format settings

Thanks. That worked. :)