Guido Rosso guitar jamming visual designer, user interface architect, motion specialist, photographer, and twin of Luigi Rosso.

Tip: After Effects Rendering

It’s a good idea to always export your renders as uncompressed files. Then compress your full quality render by re-exporting, or, even better, use a third party tool to do your compression. Quicktime Pro works well. This way you have a full quality version of your project and you don’t have to re-render the whole thing if you need to tweak the compression settings.

If you’re working on a very large project, you can take this a step further by exporting an uncompressed image sequence (I’m partial to TGA, but TIF, BMP, and PNG work too). Uncompressed images are a good idea because you won’t lose your progress if your computer crashes or if you need to stop the render. Simply start rendering again from the last successful frame.