• Adobe After Effects

  replacing footage & keeping the dimensions

  Posted by Ilmari Hakkola on May 16, 2008 at 9:18 am

  Hi,

  this has been discussed before, but in case there’s any news on the subject, i’ll start this once again:

  Is it possible to replace footage in a way the it would remain the same size in all the comps?

  I’ve created a huge scene with complex animation for 1080p renders, and my source footage seems to be too big for AE to handleae_ and the rendering continuously stops to “can’t create xxx image buffer” (which i think is unforgivable and ridicilous from a software like this, rendering for 8 hours over night and crashing to a memory error like this. And not automatically continuing from a frame it crashed on. Arrgh.)

  I’ve set proxies to files which are really small in size (like 300x300px) and they work fine, keeping all the dimensions. So it should be possible to replace the footage keeping the dimensions, because proxies can do it. The only solution i’ve found so far is using my smaller files (which i wan’t to use in the final render as well) as proxies and render the final videos with proxies. But then i lose the opportunity to use the proxies in their original purpose.

  I think there should be a “keep originial dimensions” setting in the replace footage panel, if it’s not already somewhere else. Anybody?

  -ilmeri

  Ilmari Hakkola replied 18 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  Ron Lindeboom

  May 16, 2008 at 11:11 am

  [ilmari hakkola] “I’ve created a huge scene with complex animation for 1080p renders, and my source footage seems to be too big for AE to handle and the rendering continuously stops to “can’t create xxx image buffer” (which i think is unforgivable and ridiculous from a software like this, rendering for 8 hours over night and crashing to a memory error like this. And not automatically continuing from a frame it crashed on. Arrgh.)”

  This part of your problem can easily be solved by rendering out to sequential numbered image files instead of rendering out to a Quicktime movie file, etc.

  Best regards,

  Ron Lindeboom
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  Ilmari Hakkola

  May 16, 2008 at 12:05 pm

  yep, that’s true. but i still think stopping rendering so often because of memory issues is unforgivable and one of the most annoying bugs/features in AE. Though my AE preferences probably needs tweaking as well..

  -ilmeri

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