# After effects exporting

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/after-effects-exporting/222485>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [April 13, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/after-effects-exporting/222485 "2007-04-13T20:41:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![FlashFish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@FlashFish](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlashFish)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/after-effects-exporting/222485/1 "2007-04-13T20:41:53Z")

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Hi. I’m having trouble getting my composition exported to a useful file size. It’s about 25 minutes long with audio and made up of 4 gig worth of .dv files and a couple of png sequences (if that makes a difference)I tried 450x300 pixels draft quality avi and it’s come out 14gig which is no good as it needs to be emailable. I do have video encoding software so i tried creating a smaller mpeg version but it came out skewed, grey and basically corrupt.

Please can someone suggest some output settings for After Effects which will create either the file I need, or at least a file that my video encoding software can handle as I don’t know a lot about video filetypes.

Thanks in advance for any help, I’m going frickin crazy.

CRAZY.