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Video importing error
When I import some video, the video takes a long time to import, and when it finally does come in, I get the following error message:
After Effects error: retrieving frame from video stream. (3)
(53 :: 34)
The video is then unusable (all black).
This doesn’t happen for all the footage I have. Footage I recently captured into Premiere Pro 1.5 from a DV deck seems to work fine. However, older footage I have, captured in Vegas (but also from the same DV deck), does give me this error.
The only difference is a change in video cards (now using Storm RT 2). However, should the difference in video cards effect how After Effects imports video?
Any help is appreciated.
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If your older card used a proprietary codec that only that card could read, then yes it could effect it.
Often, higher end video cards have hardware that allow it to compress video in a lossless format that only that card can read. The idea is, you take it into your NLE and output it in a format that others can see, but in the interim (while on your machine) it saves space and increases performance.
Check the company’s website to see if they have a software decoder for that codec.
This may, of course not be the problem. If you can see these files in premiere or a another program that canb convert video, then convert them into a lossless format like QT animation compression before going into AE.
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