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  H.264 quicktime problem

  Posted by Sam Moulton on April 6, 2006 at 1:43 am

  I’ve got to render a h.264 quicktime from a windows machine and am having all kinds of trouble. I can’t even get a single frame to render before I get the error message:

  After Effects error;compressing frame of movie — QuickTime codec error (-8960)

  I’ve tried different frame sizes and with and without audio. The machine i’m working on today does not have qtPro installed. I don’t know if that is required for this codec to render and I can’t take the movie into QT and render there.

  Any ideas would be appreciated. I may just have to render animation qt’s and take them home to render tonight on my mac.

  Roland R. kahlenberg replied 20 years, 1 month ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Roland R. kahlenberg

  April 6, 2006 at 2:01 am

  h.264 requires information on rendered frames in order to work well. These frames allow the encoder to group frames into packets for enhanced compression to ensure a smaller filesize and bitrate.

  The -8960 error message seems to be an error that occurs due to non-conformity to expected screen ratios that a CODEC works in.

  You will do better by rendering to the Animation CODEC and then using QTPro for the h.264 encoding.

  HTH
  RoRK
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