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Understanding rendering and compression


    Rendering is a series of operations performed on your composition. First, each layer or nested composition is rendered with its masks, effects, and layer transformations. Next, transfer modes are applied. Finally, the composited frame is sent to each output module to create the final movie.

    The output module specifies the compression scheme to be used in rendering the movie. The quality of the audio for a movie is determined by the settings in the output modules.

    See Help iconFor a list of compressors and file formats, see the Adobe Web site.