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ATTN: Dave LaRonde
Hey Dave you recently responded to another post I had about a strange video freeze happening within AE. Well. I took your advice of exporting the videos out with a different codec because they were either originally saved out as H264 or Mpeg 2. I went ahead and re-exported the video clips with “photo jpeg” as the codec and it does the same friggin thing! I keep adding to my project and everything seems to preview fine within after effects until boom! I add one more clip to the timeline then all of a sudden the other clips within the project all freeze like still frames in the middle of a render. Very odd. Can you help me further?
Here are 2 links of my setup. In the second example, im just showing u how ive added the videos.
https://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g109/Bonesone4/Picture1-1.png
https://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g109/Bonesone4/Picture2-1.png
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Hmmm…not sure I understand this right. Shift+preferences=secret???????? explain?
Bones
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by the way, shot this in HDV. I use a Sony HDR FX1
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If you hold down the Shift key before you go into preferences, a “Secret” menu appears at the very end. This gives you the chance to disable layer caching and purge memory after a certain number of frames.
This can add a bit of time to a render, but may mean that After Effects is able to render out something that it’s struggling with.
Shhhhecret.
Good luck,
BenCurious Turtle Professional Video
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In FCE 4 I simply exported my video as a self contained video. From there I’ve imported that into AE.
I’ve also tried videos I’ve already made and compressed in the past by reconverting them to another codec like photo jpeg. still seems to happen though.
The project seems to work out okay in the beginning until I get to a certain point….then everything ive done to that point freezes…very very odd.
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This does not seem to work for me. Im on a mac. Not sure if this has anything to do with it. i go up to preferences and before I push it, i hold shift then click on preferences but nothing seems to happen…
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Dave I realize this. It’s telling me to convert my HDV footage to another codec….which is what I thought I was doing when I exported my video to photo jpeg codec…sometime this week ill try and do a screen capture video for you and send u a link so u can see what I am doing. It may help more if you actually watch how I go about it. Im not sure how else to describe or fix what is happening.
Bones
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You need to hold shift from the time you click on the ‘After Effects’ menu until the time you’ve clicked on the drop down menu inside of preferences (it starts out saying ‘General’). This works on Mac or PC, doesn’t matter.
Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA
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