After Effects Workflow (Mac & Windows)

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I have started doing a ton more freelance work with animated motion graphics videos, and need a good way to get them to clients. Obviously, I want to use x264 in mp4 but it's just getting there. I can do all of the encoding after the main After Effects render on a Windows machien

I do 90% of the work on my MacBook Pro, and CS5 cannot output to AVI, so I'm not sure how to get it into a format AviSynth likes.

When I was primarily Windows at my full time job, I would render in After Effects to HUFFYUV, and go from there. Pretty simple.

Is there a QT format that AviSynth can read?

[poisondeathray]

If you install quicktime on the PC, you can use qtsource.dll
http://www.tateu.net/software/

e.g.
QTinput("video.mov")

It will read anything quicktime can read, so that includes RGB formats such as animation codec, png in mov, etc... or YUV formats such as prores

Exporting from AE, most people would probably use an RGB format