• Adobe After Effects

  Render/Quicktime Issue

  Posted by Justin Gray on December 27, 2010 at 6:32 pm

  I’m rendering an animation for the Dallas Cowboys to play in their arena. It’s one of those ribbon boards. The resolution is 11,248h x 48w. When I render the animation my quicktime player gives be only a black screen. However, if I reimport the rendered back into After Effects it plays fine from within the program. I am on a MacPro 8 core machine with 12gigs of RAM. I have tried all kinds of different codecs. Yet, all playback from within QT is only a black screen. Any ideas?

  Thanks Fellow Bovines,

  Justin Gray
  Senior Editor/Motion Graphics Artist
  Encore Multimedia
  web.me.com/grayplanet

  Ryan Ross replied 13 years, 2 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Walter Soyka

  December 28, 2010 at 4:53 pm

  [Justin Gray] “I’m rendering an animation for the Dallas Cowboys to play in their arena. It’s one of those ribbon boards. The resolution is 11,248h x 48w. When I render the animation my quicktime player gives be only a black screen. However, if I reimport the rendered back into After Effects it plays fine from within the program. I am on a MacPro 8 core machine with 12gigs of RAM. I have tried all kinds of different codecs. Yet, all playback from within QT is only a black screen. Any ideas?”

  I’ve noticed this, too, with some of my widescreen video wall work — that I could render very large Quicktime movies that Quicktime Player wouldn’t read, but AE would. I haven’t yet done enough experimentation to know where the break points are.

  With large-format work, I usually work internally with image sequences before delivering in whatever format is required.

  Here’s a recent thread on Daktronics fascia boards that you might find helpful:

  https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/987382

  Walter Soyka
  Principal & Designer at Keen Live
  Motion Graphics, Widescreen Events, Presentation Design, and Consulting
  RenderBreak Blog – What I’m thinking when my workstation’s thinking
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  Ryan Ross

  March 14, 2013 at 4:54 pm

  I’m digging up an old thread, but I have this same issue.

  Has anyone found a solution?

  Thanks.
  -Ryan

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