Render Settings and Exports in Apple Motion - Apple Motion Professional Training 10 by AV-Ultra

my name is Stanislaw Robert Luberda with AV ultra and today we're going to be talking about renders and exports in Apple motion. In our last lesson we're taking a look at the 3D layers and the 3D camera and in this lesson we're going to be really focusing on exports and playing back as fast as possible. If you'll notice in my scene here, when I play this back it starts playing really well and then it starts slowing down quite a bit there's times that I just want to focus on doing my work out there and there's other times that I want to focus on fine-tuning my graphic there's lots of different things that we can do to optimize our playback and our render settings and then package things up for our final exports lastly we're going to be taking a look at rendering with alpha channels so when we have lower thirds we want to be able to export those and have a clear background let's go ahead and get started. If you open up your lesson 10 exports exercise in the link below you'll get this project and it's just a series of different elements that we have in 3d space. This is actually built upon from the last lesson and you can see that it's having a hard time playing back due the fact that I've got some lights and my cameras and reflections things will slow down just a little bit why don't we go ahead and take a look at our render settings. If come up to my top right corner I have my render settings and you'll notice that I have resolution quality, light shadows reflections depth of field and then motion blur field rendering and frame blending right now let's talk about the resolution to change this renderer to half and as soon as I change it to have you can see that my reflection and my graphics have gotten a little less than ideal that's okay because I just want to play this back so we can take a look at it. Right now it's moving just a bit faster but it's still slowing down quite a bit so let's come up here one more time and change this to quarter resolution and again it is now made that less than ideal again. now this time it's really kind of chunked up our graphics you can really see the pixelization so what it's doing is it's really taking a quarter of the resolution at this point take a look at that. it's still just a bit faster but overall it's very very slow. I'm actually reviewing things I don't really jump into the resolution settings so much. I will tend to leave this at half or even full and I really focus on either the quality or light shadows reflections. if I change this quality to lets say best, full ,and I turn on lights, shadows here's how fast this plays back. I've actually already hit the spacebar but now it is very very slow because we've got that motion blur and the highest possible playback. so we could play this back if I really want to review this at full resolution and I want to see in real time, I hold onto command option shift are I will get a Ram preview and what this will do is it's basically writing all those frames to my RAM so that way it will play it back in real time. pay attention to our Ram preview here you can see it right around 65 when the camera starts moving that's when it's having a little bit harder time. If we come down here to our timeline we can see how much has been rendered and how much still has to render. so now that I have that pre render setup if I play this back, you'll notice that it is playing back in real time. When we're actually using this Ram preview any changes that we make - if I move anything in here that will actually delete this Ram preview. I try not use that Ram preview until I absolutely need to or in case something is mission-critical as far as layout and composition. let's talk about actually exporting using render settings. go to export items out of motion we have our share button you'll notice if I go to file I don't really have an export the only way to get this out is to export using the share I'm going to skip over the Apple devices dvd/blu-ray email etc because the only thing that we're really concerned about is export movie and send to compressor. if you have compressor if we go to export movie command-E we're going to be presented with a new dialog box. what this is giving us is a small preview of our file as well as our options. so we have different ways that we can export this. usually we want to do pro res 4 4 4 4 or 4 2 2 if we don't have any kind of transparency or if it's going straight to the web h.264 and we have a post render option which is open with. so we can say "hey, open it with something else" or send it to compressor. we can include the video or video and audio if we have audio in there. lastly we have a duration which is set to our entire project at this time. now we have our render settings. you'll notice that we have color and alpha or we can set it to just color. because we don't have an alpha channel in here it doesn't really pay to export things with color plus alpha and we can set our color space. more often than not you're going to be using rec 709. your TVs may have HDR televised signals and those would be in rec 2020 . most of the time though you're going to be in 709 you can set your render quality your field your motion blur and your frame blending same as they are set up in our render . if I set this to use canvas setting it's going to export exactly the way the my Ram preview exported . however if I am rendering things in draft quality quarter resolution with no lights shadows or reflection and no frame blending you know it's this isn't exactly the way I want it to render out. I want it to playback but when I render it out I want it to be at that highest possible quality . if we're previewing our canvas at a low quality or without reflections and we're going to want that in our final exports that's where we're going to change it from our use canvas settings to say best turn on our frame blending turn on our light shadows reflections and then we'll hit our summary and that will give us an idea of how big the file is going to be, frame rate, the resolution and the codec. you'll notice I am rendering out in four four four four and that is at six hundred and thirty two megabytes. this is 15 second long so that is a very large file if I don't have any kind of alpha channels i would probably want to push it down to 4 2 2. you can see that that changed it down to 282 megabytes if you are going straight to web and you don't really care too much about the quality that's where you're going to want to go out through h.264. this movie now is only 42 megabytes. It is best to render out a highest possible quality that you'll use and then render it down to an h.264 I'm going to go ahead and hit next and it's going to ask me where I want to save it and I can just save it on my desktop. if we're going to be exporting a lot of different projects at the same time that's where you're really going to want compressor. so a lot of times I'm making lower thirds and I might make 20 or 30 of them and I need to send them all out. so instead of waiting for that to render one at a time I'm going to send it to compressor. if we have compressor installed it's going to open up and it's going to give you a preview of what you're going to render out. What I like about this is I can set up several different copies at once with different names and different projects and then start the batch all at one time so I can get on with my work. additionally I like to do this when I go for my lunch breaks or end-of-day I collect the computer work while I'm working on something else. here is a preview of our exports if you are looking for more information on compressor I have a whole lesson all about using compressor and some of the features you may or may not know about one last thing I want to talk about here is what if you want to render something out with thetransparency? by a transparency I mean we want to put this title on top of some other video but we don't want all this blackness around it here we want this to be transparent one: how do I know it's transparent and two how do I get that transparency out? if you open up one of your lower thirds I included free with this training in the description and go ahead and open up any one of those and we'll come up to this top right corner and view our transparency. and if I turn that on that's going to show us everything that will be transparent if we render with this alpha Channel. so if I go to my share and export movie again I'm going to try exporting this as an h.264 and go to render color and alpha and even though it says color and alpha h.264 does not support alpha channels. so we're going to want to go ahead and choose ProRes 4444 and we're going to want our color and alpha and set everything to the best possible setting. I like to go ahead and set these even though they might be in the canvas and the reason for that is just in case maybe I changed it and I want to make sure that I get the highest possible quality out of this so now if I go ahead and I preview this you'll notice that this is clear in the background . That's letting me know I have this alpha channel here and that's the way it's going to display that is the basics of exporting out of Apple Motion. Again you can use compressor or just use motion in case you're not exporting a lot of different graphics at once. In further lessons we're going to take a look how to get this lower third directly into Final Cut we dont even have to render through motion at all we can just bring this whole lower third right into Final Cut change out our text and have it render when we render our projects in Final Cut Again my name is Stanislaw Robert Luberda with AV ultra and hopefully you found this information useful

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Length: 9min 54sec (594 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 23 2017