Problem Importing .movs into AE
by alicia nichols
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Jun 16, 2009 at 1:50:35 pm
Hi - forgive me if this is already up, i quickly browsed AE posts and didn't see anything related.
I'm having an issue importing an uncompressed mov into AE. I'd previously created a project using this file, rendered the project and the video looked great.
I have to update the timeline with additional information. So i opened the old AE file, relinked to the same .mov and for some reason the image quality is dramatically different. It is exactly the same project and same video. Granted the video is 14gb but that didn't seem to be a problem the first time around. When i open the .mov using quicktime player, it looks great, super crisp and clear. but when i import it into AE, text in the video is almost illegible. The settings are all the same as the original project, i'm viewing it at 100%, full resolution.
I have to get this sorted today so if anyone has any suggestions, would be super appreciated. Thank you!
Re: Problem Importing .movs into AE by david bogie on Jun 16, 2009 at 3:22:30 pm
Have you tried some short test renders?
If the media file is playing properly in QT, then the only possible answer is that you have one or more settings in your AE project that are incorrect. Make a copy of your project, delete everything except your problem vide clip, deconstruct the project one step at a time, check everything, turn everything that isn't necessary off.
I'm sure you're going to find something very simple, a real head-slapper.
Re: Problem Importing .movs into AE by Kevin Camp on Jun 16, 2009 at 4:10:13 pm
if the problem is in rendered footage and the same footage looks good in qt, then it is most likely a footage interpretation issue in ae. select the footage in the project window and choose file>interpret footage>main. a frequent problem is that the footage is interpreted by ae as interlaced and ae then tries to separate fields of footage that is actually progressive. if you know that ae is incorrectly interpreting the footage set it to not separate fields.
