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  • A frame in an image sequence

    Posted by Esky Ching on December 2, 2011 at 4:11 am

    Hello!

    I have imported a time-lapse image sequence (a few thousand JPEG images) into AE’s composition, during the preview I got an “unexpected end-of-file” error somewhere in the middle of the composition.

    Usually, it is caused by the corrupted image.

    I can’t find which image in the sequence causes the problem.

    Although I can do a calculation base on the time line, it takes a bit of effort to do so.

    Is there any smarter way to find it?

    Thanks.

    Esky Ching replied 14 years, 5 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
  • 4 Replies
  • Angelo Lorenzo

    December 2, 2011 at 5:30 am

    Ctrl+click (Windows) the timecode display on your timeline panel. This will switch it from timecode to absolute frames. Corrupt frame is usually +/- a frame or two from where it crashes.

  • Esky Ching

    December 2, 2011 at 6:41 am

    Thank you for your reply.

    This is the way I am doing.

    The thing is, my sequence is not starting from 0
    🙂
    a little bit of calculation is needed (although I have done that already).

    If there is something like, when I stop at certain frame (or 1 frame before/after) of an image sequence, I can right-click and choose “Reveal this frame in Finder” will be perfect.

    Maybe I should write to Adobe putting it as a request feature for image sequence.

  • Walter Soyka

    December 2, 2011 at 6:53 am

    [Esky Ching] “The thing is, my sequence is not starting from 0 🙂 a little bit of calculation is needed (although I have done that already).”

    You can change your composition’s starting frame in composition settings [link]. It won’t affect rendering at all, but you could use this to make your comp frame counter match your image sequence frame counter.

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  • Esky Ching

    December 2, 2011 at 7:12 am

    Wow!
    This is the feature I’ve been ignoring.

    Thanks very much!!!

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