• Adobe After Effects

  Choppy and Lagging video exported from AE Cs4

  Posted by Erling Fenstad on June 23, 2009 at 12:59 pm

  Hello!

  I got Creative Suite 4 (Production Premium). I usally uses AE and PrePro, saves the project and uses Media Encoder to export the footage. My filmcrew got a Sony HDR-200 (I think) who saves in AVCHD, m2ts full HD.

  First I edit the clip with Sony Vegas… Cut the things I do not want.

  Then, I applie visualFX with After Effects and sometimes Premiere Pro. Saves the project. Fire up Adobe Media Encoder and selects “add After Effects Composition”.

  I always render in:

  H.264

  HDTV 1080p 25fps

  PAL 16:9 Ratio

  The Video was/is original i:

  Sony AVCHD (m2ts)

  1080p 25fps

  Everything seemes ok. No error messages or anything like that.

  Next step, I import the footage (from any Cs4 application) into Vegas, Movie Maker or whatever software.

  The whole clip, is “choppy”. Frames mixes together. The footage is choppy even in Windows Media Player, Winamp… Not just Vegas…

  Example: My actor is going to stand up from the couch. While rising, several frames from when he sat and when he has risen appears. The mixes, last ca. 2 frames each.

  Summary: All Cs4 products exports choppy video… Media Encoder or not… Same problem.

  Please help me!

  Computer (Costume Made):

  Asus PQ53 Deluxe

  Intel Core 2 Quadro 3.0Ghz

  8GB DDR3 1066mhz RAM

  eVGA Geforce GTX 285 (1GB GDDR3)

  Corsair 650W

  2 huge Fans…

  NB: An hour before posting this, all BIOS were updated.

  Jill Galloway replied 16 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Erling Fenstad

  June 23, 2009 at 2:45 pm

  Thanks for responding 😉

  You suggest that I should encode my AVCHD (m2ts) into another format and then render it out wiht vfx applied?

  Do you have any suggestions for a format to encode it in (that you think is good?) and what to render it out in, so it works in Vegas? Remeber, sony vegas is the “finish stage” xD

  But I don’t get it…
  The video/footage looks great in AE, but it’s after the AE export it screwes up… Isn’t it AE who needs the whole frame informationthing? Why does it look fine in AE but not after exporting?

  Anyways… Gonna try it 😉
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  Jill Galloway

  November 7, 2009 at 10:41 pm

  What codec do you recommend if I am using a Mac? I am having the exact same issue, so please let me know what you recommend when converting the footage using a Mac. Thanks!

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