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In this movie, we will earn how to render using the file export command and the differences between that and the preferred method of output, which is the composition make movie command. Now, if you just want to do a really quick output of your completed animation, you can do a file export and choose one of the export options here. Now, these are only going to highlight if you have your composition selected. So if I'm in my composition window or timeline, then I can go to file export and choose one of these formats. Now, for instance, let's just pick out QuickTime movie. Here we have our standard QuickTime export window and the settings default to QuickTime standard export. So what I generally do when I'm outputting for QuickTime so that it can be shared with the maximum number of users, both Mac and PC, is I change the settings. First I would click the settings button and go to compression type and change that to Sorenson Video 3. I change the frame rate to usually half or approximately half of what I've been working at and I set my key frames to about every two seconds. So in this case it would be every three frames. My quality I set to high and I restrict my data rate to about 550 kilobytes per second. This optimizes the movie for both sophisticated users who have access to a DSL network or a cable modem, but also those who are still on dial-up will be able to download this movie with relative ease. Then I hit ok. Under dimensions, the dimensions that I set are generally 320 x 240 QVGA and the 320 x 240 is our pixels. I say OK and then for sound settings, if I'm using music, I would choose the Q Design Music Two or if I'm using a combination of music and voice, I'll choose the IMA Four to One Codex. Let's use IMA Four to One. The data rate, 44.1 is pretty good. Sixteen-bit mono is best for the web. And I hit ok. And if I'm going to stream this through a web server, I choose fast start. In my case, I'd like to email it, so I turn this off. So again, my settings are Sorenson Video 3, high quality, frame rate 15, key frame rate at 30, bit rate at 550 kilobytes per second. I set my size to 320 x 240 and I don't hit the filter button. And then here, under settings for sound, I set it at IMA Four to One, 44-1 and 16-bit. Next I tell it where to save. Generally I would have it save into a folder called renders and I've saved that right on to the desktop. And I hit save and it gives me a basic export window with a start time, duration and what frame is currently rendering. If I decide to change my mind, I can click stop. The alternative to the file export option is to select your composition and go to composition make movie. Now, the make movie command is best when we're outputting for final cut. So I'm going to call this Mirror Akbar Two fcp, so I know it's for final cut. And if I hit the squiggle, or tilde key on my keyboard, the render queue or render list shows up. It says that the 20th thing in the list is queued and I have render settings, output module and output to. Again, everything that's underlined with blue lettering can be clicked upon and changed. So first I'm going to click on best settings and I change the field rendering to lower field first for final cut. I set the time span for work area only or length of composition. Let's choose length of composition. I say OK and then I click on loss less, which is our output module. This controls our audio and video output settings. We don't want to embed a project link. We want it to be a QuickTime movie with no link to our After Effects file. And I want to choose an audio output of 48 kilohertz, 16-bit stereo. That's the DV standard for final cut. And I say ok. I keep the Caps Lock key pressed down to freeze my on-screen previewing and I hit render. The Caps Lock key being down prevents the on-screen display of my composition window from previewing every single frame. This allows the computer to devote more processing power to the render. In the end, what I'll have is a render that can be used in Final Cut Pro or it can be used directly for DVD authoring. For further information on outputting your files and render options, refer to the After Effects help menu. In the help menu, you can either type in render queue, rendering or exporting and learn more about your desired output scenario.