# How would I compress an After Effects movie?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-would-i-compress-an-after-effects-movie/109813
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**Created:** [May 9, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-would-i-compress-an-after-effects-movie/109813 "2004-05-09T18:59:58Z")
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### Author: ![REEF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@REEF](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/REEF)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2004, 6:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-would-i-compress-an-after-effects-movie/109813/1 "2004-05-09T18:59:58Z")

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I made small effects and movies with my after effects…but I don’t really know what to do now.

With Flash MX, all I do is hit ctrl + enter and my movie is made and compressed.

What do I do with AE? I tried some things and it made a quicktime move that ended up to be like 50 megabytes…