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AE inserts color bar chip everywhere there is a non-seq #! HELP!
I’m somewhat of an AE neophyte, so this may be an absurdly stupid question. I am compiling and compositing a 3D animation rendered out of Maya as a tif image sequence. The problem is the 3D artist only rendered every other frame. When I import and layer the frames in a composition, every other frame, that is, every even numbered, nonexistent frame is replaced by AE with a color bar chip numbering the missing frames. Is there a way to get AE to ignore the “missing” frames and stop inserting the color bar chip?
humble thanks,
-Russ
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6 Replies
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Just re-interpret the footage and change the frame rate to 15fps.
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Thanks for the input. I re-interpreted the footage as 15fps and a couple of other frame rates, but it still inserts the color bar chip to indicate the abscence of a frame. Changing it to 15fps simply causes it to play the color bar chip for two frames instead of one.
This is fairly common for animators to render out only every two or three frames. There must be a way to stop AE from indicating a missing frame everytime the number skips a count like: 1, 3, 5, 7, etc.
Anyone?
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I compiled the frames into a quicktime movie and then brought it into AE. I had tried that before using the DV codec and it wouldn’t include the alpha channel. Did some research and found using the Animation codec it works fine.
Still, I think there should be some way of turning off this annoying behavior in AE if you purposely skip count numbers.
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Sorry, I meant that you have to change the composition to 15 FPS, AE interpreted the footage correctly that’s why you have the color bars. Until you change the Comp settings 15 you’ll get the bars
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Thanks, I’ll try that too.
regards,
-Russ
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Select “force alphabetical order” in the import dialog.
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