Am trying to import some HDV 1080160, Integer (Little Endian) footage into After Effects CS3. Instead of the usual white screen I get when I'm missing a codec, I get a black screen with audio. I've tried this in QT Pro and AE.
I can't seem to locate this codec anywhere online. Any help is greatly (and urgently) appreciated!
PS please be gentle I'm a designer not an IT guy
OS X (10.5.4)
2 x 2.8 GHz Quad Core Intel Xeon
6 GB 800 MHz DDR2 FB-DIMM
Quicktime Pro 7.5
After Effects 8.0.2.27
Motion Graphics Designer / Art Director
Boston, MA
Re: HDV Codec for Intel mac? by Dave LaRonde on Jul 14, 2008 at 3:51:42 pm
Dave's Stock Answer #1:
If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following -- Native HDV, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4, m2t, H.261 or H.264 -- you need to convert it to a different codec.
These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems.
Dave LaRonde
Sr. Promotion Producer
KCRG-TV (ABC) Cedar Rapids, IA
Re: HDV Codec for Intel mac? by Greg Neumayer on Jul 21, 2008 at 5:54:23 pm
Dave, I'm painfully aware of this problem, and hoping you have a "Stock answer #2 for transcoding it"? I'm more than happy to transcode--the problem is crawling back to my clients and asking them for a different format.
