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problem watching rendered footage
I rendered a movie with pretty simple footage, just text and moving lens flare. When i try and play the movie in quick time it is very choppy and even freezes at points. I get the same problem when i render as an avi and play in windows media. after i play the video a few times in quick time i get a flawless play but if i close the file and open it again i have the same errors. am i rendering in too high of resolution or system just too slow. Any help is apreciated
Will Specht
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4 Replies
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Hey Will,
I believe you might be rendering in an uncompressed avi or a quicktime with “animation” codec and your hard rive might not be able to keep up with the data rate. I used to have this problem and then I setup a raid with two sata 150 harddrives and now it plays very high resolutions flawlessly. Even my G5 at work stumbles on very high resolution animation codec renders. One way to get around this is to render with the “sorenson 3 codec” unless you don’t have any alpha channels in your scene. At work I usually render with the “PNG” codec, the files are smaller and it supports millions plus with alpha channels. The playback is a little choppy but in a linear editor it plays fine.
Good luck
Malvin -
When u render a QT – what codec r u using?
What kindof comp r u playin it back on? -
im was using BMP but i changed to photo jpeg and now it is working fine. any idea why bmp was acting so strange. anywhere with instructions on how to install the extra effects that don’t instal with professional like cc particle world.
Will
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Inert the disk, then when the window pops up there is an icon to install the extra effects. Very straight forward and very easy.
Mark
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