For whatever animations you create in After Effects, if you'd like to share them on Facebook, you can definitely do so relatively easily utilizing Adobe Media Encoder.
Reviewing the animation
So let's look at our current project.
I'll double-click on the Flying Society composition in the project panel to make it active in the timeline.
And then I'll press the space bar to preview the animation and you can see it's simply an animated propellor for our Flying Society logo.
So, I'll press the space bar to stop playback
Sending the composition to Media Encoder
and to export this for Facebook, I'll go up into Composition and choose Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue.
Once in the queue, you'll notice on the right-hand side, the name of the composition that we actually loaded into our project, and it's by default going to render wherever you rendered your last project files.
So we can start by specifying where we want the output to go, I'll go ahead and just output mine right to the desktop.
Now, to choose these two settings here, I'm actually gonna go to the Preset browser.
Applying a Facebook export preset
And I'll go to the Search area and I'll type face, and you'll see I can upload 720p, 1080p, or 4k Ultra HD.
So I'll actually drag the Facebook 1080p preset and drop it directly on top of my format here and when I let go, it's going to show me Facebook 1080p full HD.
It's still rendering to the desktop.
Rendering and reviewing the final file
So all I need to do is press the Start Queue button, and it's gonna go ahead and render.
Sometimes, I like to actually sit and watch the preview as it's rendering, just to make sure everything goes swimmingly.
But I have to say, the nice thing about working with Media Encoder is that fact that I can actually jump back into After Effects and make changes to any other composition as I continue working, and then when I go back into Media Encoder, I can check the status of my render.
So, it's actually rendered the file.
If I wanna view that file, I can click on its name, and then double-click on the file itself, and sure enough, when I go ahead and play it, you can see I have the same animation here.
I'll pause that animation, and if I go up under Window, I can show my movie inspector here, and you'll see the Facebook preset is basically an H.264 file that actually has AAC as the audio.
So it created a very small file, it'll be simple enough just to upload directly to Facebook.
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What you learned: Export video for use on Facebook
Send the composition to Media Encoder for output
Select the composition for output.
Choose Composition > Add to Adobe Media Encoder Queue. (Allow Media Encoder time to launch if it is closed.)
Set the Media Encoder settings
Click the blue text in the Output File column to name and specify where to save the file.
In the Preset Browser panel, type "facebook" in the search area.
Drag the preset directly onto the blue text in the Format column in the Queue panel.
Click the green queue button in the upper-right corner to start the output.
Tip: When using Media Encoder to render compositions from After Effects, you can continue to work on other compositions in After Effects even while Media Encoder is rendering the files.
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