Render?

[Sherman]

Short (2:14)green screen project.
HD 720p-30p.
Need to render and retain alpha channel for editor at other end who is cutting in FCP.
But rendering to .MOV (as requested) results in a 13GB file?!
Seems impossible.
What other settings would you suggest to keep the file small, quality high and retain the alpha channel?
Have to overnight this tomorrow!

Thanks,

Dan

 

[PDR]

you don't have many options

high quality and small filesize are opposites, you can't have both

for lossless formats in mov, you have animation codec or png (both with alpha) ; png will give you the better lossless compression .

I think animation has a quality slider, so you can reduce the filesize & quality . It also has to be set to millions of colors ++ for alpha channel, (RGB+A) , otherwise it will render RGB only. I've never used it at lower quality, so I don't know if it works

 

[milksac]

+1
Quicktime with png codec