Subtitles of the Movie

You can render your footage out of After Effects by choosing to export it in any format that you choose. Of course, that's based on what's in the list. You can simply go to the File Menu and choose Export and then choose the format that you like. So if you want to export your audio, you're going to export to AIFF or WAV. If you want to export to QuickTime, you can choose this format here. Sometimes you might even want to export your movie as an image sequence so instead of having one QuickTime movie or an AVI, which are both self-contained movie formats, you can have a whole bunch of different still images that you can then put back together in another application. You can also choose to export to the Flash Player, which is handy as well. Sometimes you'll take your After Effects projects and put them on a website. So you can decide whether you want to show it as a QuickTime movie or a Flash movie. It's up to you and of course it's up to what your client wants. That's pretty much the key; whatever the client wants is what the client gets. So what I'm going to do is show you how to export this to a QuickTime movie and then a Flash Player. So the first thing I'm going to do is revert back to my original and I have a couple of missing files but that's OK. And by the way, whenever you do see missing footage, all you have to do is right click on it and choose either Reload Footage or Replace that Footage and then simply find where you moved it on your hard drive. Chances are good whenever you see this, you accidentally rearranged a folder or you deleted a file and After Effects can't find it. So for now I'm going to ignore that and just show you how to export. So I'm going to go to File, Export and I'm going to choose QuickTime Movie. Now, this dialog box will pop up and it's going to tell you that you don't really have to do it this way. You can use the Render Queue, which I talk about later on in this tutorial. But I just want to show you how to do this anyway. Sometimes you don't want to go through the Render Queue and you simply want to export this to a client who might be about to get on a plane or have a meeting and they need this file right now. So I'm going to click OK and then I can choose my movie settings, I can change my compression type and once again, ask your client what he or she would like. You can change the frame rate, you can choose the quality that you want. They might just want this for a meeting so high is good but if they really want to show it on a projector or something like that, you might want to choose best and then once you're happy, click OK. If you have sound you can change the sound settings, you can have your kilohertz rate. 44.100 is pretty much CD quality but you can drop that down if you want to. You can also choose the bits from eight bit to 16 bit and decide whether to use mono or stereo. Likewise, you can also choose a compressor. What this will do is crunch your audio down into a smaller file size while retaining the best quality that it can. I typically use IMA four to one. So wherever I have four quarters, I wind up with one quarter by the time it's done. I'll click OK and then I can simply click OK if I'm ready to go. If I plan to stream this on the Internet, I can choose Fast Start. So I'll click OK. Then I simply choose a place to save it. So I will go to this folder here, call it whatever I want to and then click Save. When it's done, I'll have a QuickTime movie. Now let's go ahead and talk about how to export as Flash Player. So once again I'll go to the settings and instead of MOV, which is for movie, QuickTime movie, I see SWF, which is what the Flash Player will use when it plays this movie. So you can save it as a QuickTime movie or a Flash movie or anything that you need. Once again, just go to File, Export and then choose the preferred format.