• Adobe After Effects

  problems exporting to avi

  Posted by Carlos Burrola on March 19, 2008 at 2:14 am

  hi, i have problems when i try to export to avi, my video is 6min long and the comp size is ntsc dv 720×480. when i try to play the final video, nothing happens,cant play it, im exporting with no compression, because when i used the nstc dv compression appears a flickering in th e video, hope samebody help me with this, it a very important project.

  Curious Turtle replied 18 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Curious Turtle

  March 19, 2008 at 9:23 am

  Hi,

  When you say it won’t play, what are you trying to play it in? Does it show a frame or nothing at all?

  My initial feeling is that you’re trying to play uncompressed video off a drive that isn’t fast enough to handle it. If you reimport into After Effects can you see it there? If so, then it’s a drive throughput problem.

  When you’re rendering to NTSC DV, have you set it to field render Lower Field First? Give it a go and see if it fixes your flickering.

  All the best,
  Ben

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  Carlos Burrola

  March 19, 2008 at 5:10 pm

  Hi Ben tnx for answer me, sorry if im not so good with english.

  when i try to play it, there is no frame, when double click in the render, windows media player opens and cannot play it, an d if i reimported to after effects same thing.

  in the NTSC DV compression im sure that i have selected the lower field first option, but still the flickering.

  this is the way i ussualy export my videos

  file>export>AVI:”dialog box”
  compression type: none
  frames per second: best
  depth: millions of colors
  quality: best

  note: right now i exported the video, and i can see it, but now, appears some mirroring thing in one side of the screen.
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  Curious Turtle

  March 20, 2008 at 9:31 am

  Another suggestion I have is to not use the Export function. Instead use the Render Queue. Composition > Add to Render Queue and choose the Lossless preset if on Windows. Of course, go in and check the settings afterwards before you render.

  I exported an uncompressed AVI with audio yesterday. It played back, but for some reason wasn’t fully compliant. So instead of “Uncompressed” I re-rendered with “Lossless YUV” (I think it was the HuffYUV codec) and it was fine. So maybe there is a problem with uncompressed AVI export. I tend to avoid AVI export in my workflow if possible, and export to Quicktime instead.

  See if you can play back your AVI with Videolan instead of Windows Media Player.

  Good luck,
  Ben

  Curious Turtle Professional Video
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