AE takes a dive on my 1080P footage?

[t-h-e-w-h-o]

My AE will literally hang and take around 2mins to load when i click on any frame of my 1080P canon A1 footage in the composition... Is this normal, is there some sort of HD patch?

My machine is fairly good, or atleast i thought:

4GB of ram at 667mhz
dual cpus at 3.73ghz

anything im missing?

[Shaw]

Are you using the Cineform codec or similar intermediate codec or just the mpeg2 clips? If I recall correctly, After Effects processes your footage - on the fly - to an uncompressed format for display. MPEG2 is very much processor intensive so this might be the case.

[t-h-e-w-h-o]

Are you using the Cineform codec or similar intermediate codec or just the mpeg2 clips? If I recall correctly, After Effects processes your footage - on the fly - to an uncompressed format for display. MPEG2 is very much processor intensive so this might be the case.

what codec should i use to maintain near raw quality? I was just using the raw mpeg2 clips that premiere captures from the cam itself.

[Drew Ott]

4GB of ram at 667mhz
dual cpus at 3.73ghz


Fairly good? That's amazing. Dual core 3.73ghz each? I have single-core 1.86ghz.

[t-h-e-w-h-o]

hehe, well i do work for a internet server company :)

[Shaw]

I guess my next question would be what version of After Effects are you using and are you using Premiere Pro?

Depending on what you're trying to accomplish a lot of people like Cineform (http://www.cineform.com). Whether that's the right solution for you, I don't know.

What video card are you using? A lot of the newer cards accelerate the decoding process (though I'm not sure that's applicable in this case anyway...)

This is all just a guess by the way :)

[Philip_38]

How do they compare, Adobe Aftereffects versus the Cineform line of products??

Why would you buy one versus the other??

[NickJushchyshyn]

What effects are you planning to apply to these plates.

In general, it's easiest to work with individual image files per frame. Much faster to access and much easier for AE to manage memory this way.

When working with CineAlta F950 (1080p at 4:4:4) captures, for example, we usually convert the plates to TGA file sequences prior to piping them through any effects or 3D apps.

[t-h-e-w-h-o]

What effects are you planning to apply to these plates.

In general, it's easiest to work with individual image files per frame. Much faster to access and much easier for AE to manage memory this way.

When working with CineAlta F950 (1080p at 4:4:4) captures, for example, we usually convert the plates to TGA file sequences prior to piping them through any effects or 3D apps.

i was also told that by a buddy who works for ILM, how do i go about doing so? He said something about changing it in the bin, but i dont see where?

And as far as cineform, thier codec costs $200 doesnt it?

[NickJushchyshyn]

Loads of options for doing the conversion.
Most Editing apps will do it for you.
I usually just dump shots through QuickTime Pro to export sequences.

You could also just import the captured plates into a a single AE project, load 'em up for conversion in the render que and then click render before going to bed one night. Ta da ... TGA sequences for breakfast.

[t-h-e-w-h-o]

Loads of options for doing the conversion.
Most Editing apps will do it for you.
I usually just dump shots through QuickTime Pro to export sequences.

You could also just import the captured plates into a a single AE project, load 'em up for conversion in the render que and then click render before going to bed one night. Ta da ... TGA sequences for breakfast.

care to give instructions on how to render them as tga's to render while i sleep? I think that will be the best way.

thank

[NickJushchyshyn]

It's a really straight foreward process, but intricate to describe.
Check out the manual's coverage of the Render Queue panel for starters (p584 in v7)

Basically, you'll want to setup templates for the Render Settings and Output module so you can quickly set a render to output TGA sequences.
With the templates in place, load your captured clips into a project, select them all in the project panel and use the "Add to Render Queue" command from the Composition menu to add all the clips to the render queue.
Make sure they're all set to use your templates and will render to your desired directory.

Then, just before leaving your workstation .... Click Render.
AE will step through each clip and render render render without intervention.

That's the basic outline anyway.
Hope that helps.
Good luck

[natxbrotha]

go to videocopilot.net and look in the tutorials section... check out the tutorial on "proxies," that should help you out.

[t-h-e-w-h-o]

thanks much guys