Combustion 2008 with Windows XP 64 Bit. Render to quicktime or .AVI settings?
by matt chapman
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Feb 12, 2008 at 4:51:40 pm
Hi there-
I recently upgraded my OS to Windows XP 64 Bit. I edit in Sony Vegas and composite in combustion. When i am trying to export a clip now i can't get past the OPTIONS on the quicktime button.
On my previous OS (Windows XP) i would render from combustion as a .MOV uncompressed with Millions of colors + and had no problem.
I just installed Combustion 2008 and now when i go to render to a QT it crashes, right when i click the OPTIONS button.
I am willing of course to just render to an .AVI, which is a workaround i use in a different program, but i don't know what settings to use for .AVI in Combustion..
Does anyone know settings that work with .AVI to export with an alpha channel that aren't a sequence? Sequences make it hard to edit in vegas vs. using a movie file.
Re: Combustion 2008 with Windows XP 64 Bit. Render to quicktime or .AVI settings? by Eric Craft on Feb 12, 2008 at 5:39:33 pm
For AVI you will need to get a codec that supports RGBA, there are some. For example try the Lagarith codec. What version of Quicktime do you have installed? Have you tried deleting/renaming the Combustion host.ini file?
Re: Combustion 2008 with Windows XP 64 Bit. Render to quicktime or .AVI settings? by matt chapman on Feb 12, 2008 at 9:04:38 pm
i have QT version 7.4.1... even that is a bit unstable, as QT is not supported for Windows Pro 64 bit.
i tried the lagarith download and installed the codec, but combustion still doesn't provide me the option to select Color + Alpha in the render when i have Video For Windows selected as the format.
Right now i am exporting TGA sequences and then importing them in to another program (TVPaint) and then exporting from there with an uncompressed RGBA 32 bit .AVI, but still have no option to do so in combustion.
any other help is appreciated... where do i find the combustion host.ini file? in the quicktime folder?
Re: Combustion 2008 with Windows XP 64 Bit. Render to quicktime or .AVI settings? by Dean DeCarlo on Feb 13, 2008 at 1:07:21 am
Not familiar with Win 64 but I wouldn't be surprised if Combustion doesn't play will with it. Two thoughts. First, I've heard much badness about Quicktime 7.4. Check the After Effects forum. It is all over the place there that that version should be avoided. I don't think that is the root of your problem but it probably won't help. Second, I've found the best way from Combustion in to an editor (Premiere in my case) is to render Targas, load them in to the timeline and render out movie files in Premiere. Premiere can play back Targa sequences in real time so I can check if everything is ok before committing to a movie file for editing etc. Network rendering is very important to me so rendering to an image sequence out of Combustion is essential. This is the work flow I've settled on after much trial and error. Hope this helps.
Re: Combustion 2008 with Windows XP 64 Bit. Render to quicktime or .AVI settings? by Jonathan Shohet on Feb 16, 2008 at 11:46:45 am
I recently purchased a new laptop, and had quicktime crash in win XP. I'm almost sure the problem is with one of the drivers, most probably the nvidia card.
I found that if I go in quicktime to
Edit->Preferences->Quicktime Preferences->Advanced
and select "safemode" instead of "DirectX" under Video,
It stop all crashes. Not sure if this has any adverse effects on quicktime performance, so far I have'nt notice any.
Re: Combustion 2008 with Windows XP 64 Bit. Render to quicktime or .AVI settings? by Gonzalo Varela on Mar 1, 2008 at 3:40:14 am
I was use Windows x64 from about 2 years now. Just because y can assingn 100% of memory in catching option in Combustion. Thatīs gimme a pretty 3.71GB of cache, the max. for a 32bit program like C4. And the rest of applications still can use the memory C4 canīt see. My system have 6gb of ram.
But, yes, QuickTime in x64 is a pain! All versions from 7, gimme hard work to configure.
My best solution for the crash problem in Quicktime is:
Open Control Panel, click on "view x86 icons", click on the QT icon, this opens QuickTime Preferences.
In the "Advanced" tab, select "Safe mode (GDI only)".
Thatīs it. Maybe a problem with DirectX acceleration, maybe just for nVidia cards (like my case) or maybe just in my particular configuration. But works for me!
Good luck!
Re: Combustion 2008 with Windows XP 64 Bit. Render to quicktime or .AVI settings? by Gonzalo Varela on Mar 1, 2008 at 3:56:54 am
I apologize for repeating a Tip of another tread, but it was not marqued as x64 problem and i missed it.
The post is:
http://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/14/863108 whith the same Safe Mode (GDI only), config solution.
Maybe not just a x64 problem!
