Re: Problem with After Effects Video Files! HELP! Strobe-Like Playback by Patrick Leixner on Feb 7, 2008 at 12:39:28 pm
THe problem appears, when i drag the video ina new comp and then play it.
THe Video file is actually from videocopilot.net
Itīs the suicide footage!
Also the Video files from the videocopilot DVDīs have the same problem too, they are all .mov files, other files appear to be working! I got Quicktime 7.1.5 onm my PC and running Windows Vista!
Re: Problem with After Effects Video Files! HELP! Strobe-Like Playback by Kevin Camp on Feb 7, 2008 at 3:52:39 pm
are you previewing by hitting spacebar or zero on the numbers pad...
if you are previewing by hitting spacebar you are reading the file from the source you dragged it in from (the hard drive, or dvd -- note i don't recommend dragging media in to ae directly from a dvd), and play back speed will be limited to the data rate of that source. open the time control panel in ae and then preview your footage, the time controls will tell you what the playback rate is (it will tell you if it is not realtime).
if you want realtime playback, hit zero on the #s pad. this will cache a portion of the clip to ram and playback will be in realtime, but it may not play the entire clip (it depends on the amount of ram you have and the frame size, frame rate and duration of the clip). you can fit more of the clip into ram if you decrease the preview window's preview size, this will not effect any final renders, it just decreases the amount of ram (and processing time) required to generate a ram preview.
my guess is that the data rate of the files exceeded the data rate of your drive, and that caused the playback stutters. using the zero key to ram preview should fix that.
Re: Problem with After Effects Video Files! HELP! Strobe-Like Playback by Patrick Leixner on Feb 7, 2008 at 3:57:05 pm
Acutally previewed it with the 0-key
ohh and when i open the file in AE7, it actually missing frames, some frames are white!
As I said the only files affected are .mov files... i donīt get it!
Also formated C today and reinstalled Vista, I will try it with XP now!
Re: Problem with After Effects Video Files! HELP! Strobe-Like Playback by Kevin Camp on Feb 7, 2008 at 4:19:00 pm
do you know what codec the footage was encoded with? there may have been a document with the video copilot clips that stated the codec used.... if not, you can open the file in quicktime, and then choose window>show movie inspector. this will tell you the codec (it calls it 'format') used.
i doubt that andrew used any third party codecs, but it may be that the standard codec he used has been updated. qt7.1.4 is a pretty old version of quicktime, you may want to update to 7.3.1 or the newly released 7.4.1.
the only other things i can think of, might be that the earlier version of quicktime and ae7 don't play nice with vista. you mentioned that you were installing xp, maybe you will have better success with xp (i do recall some problems with vista and ae7...)
