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Exporting your animations requires you to

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make a few important decisions.

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At last, you are ready to

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export your animation from character animator.

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Three things to think about

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first, number one, the duration.

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Number two, the background.

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And number three, what kind of

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file do you want to export?

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Okay, so let's start with that duration.

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Unfortunately, it is quite possible that you

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could export more than you intended.

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You might have a ridiculously long animation that you

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don't realize is going to get exported, and you

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might have just a lot of still video.

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So to make sure that you get only what you

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intended, you can use this lighter gray area here.

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This is the work area bar, and you

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can essentially bracket over your intended animation.

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So if I shorten it, let's say a lot and right click, I

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have an option here to trim the scene to the work area.

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This will assure that only my intended animation that

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is bracketed within the work area is exported.

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So that's the first thing I would recommend.

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Secondly, you're going to want to decide

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if you want a transparent background or

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if you want a solid colored background.

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The reason is that even though I see white here

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as a background, if I were to go to File

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and Export and let's say video, I surprisingly would not

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get a white background, it would be black.

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So this white background is

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only inside of character animator.

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So you have to decide, do I want a transparent

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background or if I'm intending to have a white background,

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I would need to bring in a white background.

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So in this case, if I did want to

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do that, I could go to File and Import.

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And in the project files, I've got

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a light gray background that I could

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simply drag and drop underneath my animation.

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And you can see it's a little bit of a

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lighter gray just so we could see the difference.

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Right, if I turn it on and off, yeah.

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And that would assure that I have

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the colored background that I want.

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Okay, lastly, the file format.

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You have a ton of options if I cruise up to File

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and export, starting from the top, a video via Media encoder.

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So Media encoder is an app dedicated

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to compression and different video file formats.

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And this would be a great way to go

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in the event that you wanted a solid colored

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background that we've got here in character animator.

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Moving on down.

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If I needed an alpha channel, I would need

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to go and delete my background then, and that

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would allow me to have a transparent background for

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Rob here in case I wanted to maybe overlay

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him on some other background in another app.

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alright, a png sequence would give

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you the highest quality of video.

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It's actually going to be a sequence of

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png files that is a lot less compression

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format and a separate wave file.

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So this is the highest quality, but it does

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require a little bit more work because you bring

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in the sequence and the wave files separately.

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Let's say in Adobe after effects

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we've talked about adobe dynamic link.

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Now we've got frame. Okay.

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It's quite possible that you needed this particular

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pose for a social media profile picture. Great.

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And that would give me a single png file.

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All right, but going back to kind of our standard

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practice here, I'm going to hit Command Z, which is

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controlz on a PC, just to bring my background back.

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And let's do a video via Adobe Media encoder.

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It's a pretty standard way to go.

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When I do that, it's going to want to name the file.

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I can call it scene.

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Rob It's going to launch Adobe Media encoder.

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And you can see that by default, I have

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the H 264 compression standard that's going to create

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an mp4 file, and that is the standard video

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compression format used by every social media channel presently.

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lastly, I have different presets, including

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presets for things like Twitter, Facebook,

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vimeo, anything you might want.

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Okay, so all I have to do now if

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I'm happy with all of those settings, is make

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sure it's sending it to the right location and

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hit the shiny green button and off it goes.

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And now on my desktop, I have an mp4 file that

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I can send and post and use anywhere I want.