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How to fix the delay on the markers (*)
Hey guys, every time that I search for an answer about After Effects I keep getting brought to this site and finding what I need. So I thought this would be a good place to ask my question.
Currently I’m working on a project that requires precise timing of events in sync with the audio. The way that I’ve been currently using is lowering the fps’s in the RAM preview to play it back really slow and make adjustments that way. This is fairly slow. Ive heard about using the * key during playback to note key moments. This is perfect however there is always a significant delay. I thought no problems, ill just select all the markers and move them back acouple of frames to the correct time.. however i cant select them all and move them. I have to do this one by one, this being even more slow the the first method so i guess my question is,
a) can i fix the delay when pressing the *?
b) if not, how can i select and move all the markers at once? -
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This reply was also useful to me as your first technique did seem to work for me. However I am peeved that we have to do this in order for the final render to be accurate on the markers created. After all the reason we put markers down in the first place is to be accurate on timing of certain shots or music, it’s kind of ironic that the final output is far from accurate.
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The stupid thing is when I rendered in AE it was perfect, it’s only when I rendered it out to wmv format that the delay was present.
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I meant when I RAM previewed in AE the output was in sync with my markers, however when I rendered it out to wmv the delay was present in the finished file.
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Firstly thanks a lot for that technique Dan, it works perfectly. Just putting the markers on a separate layer to move them. But Adobe should let you select them all and move all at once, seems pretty basic to me. It’s is also weird that there is a such a long delay, ive got a pretty good pc and there shouldn’t be a delay THAT long (1 second).
In reply to DaMasteRZ’s comment. Ive had the same problem with my projects too. There are a couple of things you can do.
1) I think this is a problem with encoding and various codecs… i was having this problem on .mov files and other, so its not just .wma . To fix this is set my comp size to a standard. Pick one of the ones here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Vector_Video_Standards2.png) I use 720p which is 1280 x 720 pixels. I find by setting it to a standard size that codecs know it renders to the format quicker and there is less problems.
2) Pick a good codec to use. I find H.264 is the best one out there. Then play with the settings to get the quality/file size right. Really pump up the bit rate to get good quality.
3) Uninstall any codec packs etc if you got any, and then install FFdshow. This is the best codec software and is free. Get the latest version from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/
Tell me if its works out for you
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Thanx olthof, I will try the advice you gave me and see if it works. Strangely the delays in my projects were excatly of 1 second as well. I did suspect at the time this may happen during the rendering process with certain codecs.
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Im working on my project that is due for a presentation tomorrow and ive pretty much have finished it, so ive exported it to .mp4 and it works perfect. But then i move it over to my laptop on which im going to present tomorrow and its off by several frames. So as a quick fix ive just made a duplicate of the audio layer (control + d) and named it “Laptop Audio”, then ive turned off the sound for the first layer and moved the laptop audio layer a couple of frames and fixed it that way. I just thought id share that to in case anyone else needed a quick fix and their on a deadline.
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