Rendering in AE 6.5 Pro

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dewman

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I've been working with AE 6.5 pro for the past couple of months and have an online membership to vtc training, but I still have a quesiton. I was wondering if anyone could help.

I do a lot of green screen filming and love keylight within AE, but the question relates to a function that i like within PP1.5...after keying out the background in PP1.5, i render it and can watch the effects applied in the monitor window (real time)...when i key and render in AE, i cannot watch the results except for playing the avi file. If i try to watch the already applied effects AE still wants to do a ram preview...is there a solution or a setting i'm missing within AE so that i can render and play the in real time without going through a ram preview even after i rendered the file?

I hope this makes sense....thanks for assistance!
 
Thanks, Surf...but I have to agree with msconce...to what? Reviewed the preview option....nothing that I saw answered the quesiton. Much thanks!
 
in the preview panel the 3rd button from the right: the quick preview, change it there.
 
Thanks, surf...already had the fast preview button "on/engaged"....i guess it just the way AE was developed verus PP - they are just handle content differently. I just don't understand, once the comp has been rendered that i can't play the video within AE without re-rendering or ram previewing the same comp that was already rendered (make movie option).

It will be interesting to see where Adobe takes their product's with the upcoming release of AE7 and PP2.0...
 
dewman said:
I just don't understand, once the comp has been rendered that i can't play the video within AE without re-rendering or ram previewing the same comp that was already rendered (make movie option).
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You always have to ram preview to get full speed because AE does not treat video files with codecs the same as Premiere. Premiere makes use of the codec as it is playing, while AE plays the video without the codec. AE is also deinterlacing your footage as it plays (or converting it to 30p, either way you look at it), and when rendering from AE by default it will render at the same 30p. This is actually a better method, as the program does not rely on a codec and interprets the file itself, allowing you to work with uncompressed footage.

Notice how interlaced footage looks different in Premiere when there is movement (horizontal lines)? There are no such "artifacts" in AE because it has rendered half frames into whole ones. Also, you can go to the "Interperet Footage" option, and decide your pulldown if needs be and enable "Enhance Edge" which can help define your video to a suprising degree.

It's just how AE uses video files, and it's a better way.
 
Thanks, Rapier for the explanation. That makes sense! Of course ever time i do my keying within AE the results are of a higher quality than PP...and I do notice how interlaced footage looks different in PP...much thanks!
 
dewman said:
Thanks, Rapier for the explanation. That makes sense! Of course ever time i do my keying within AE the results are of a higher quality than PP...and I do notice how interlaced footage looks different in PP...much thanks!
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You're welcome. I want to correct something I wrote before about AE not using a video file's codec. It does not use that codec for playback, but in order to successfully open a file with a certain codec, that codec must be installed. AE can not open say a DivX .avi if the codec is not installed. You probably knew this, but I didn't want any confusion, and as I re-read my earlier post, it is a little ambiguous.
 
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