After Effects and HDV

[Mylenium]

AE does not yet support it natively, you would have to use a Quicktime container or AVI wrapper to use it inside AE. Hardware specs in this case are not important, since it’s a software only process and you will never have realtime playback unless you do a RAM preview.

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[Klaus]

Thank you very much for your reply. Can you please explain what is a quicktime wrapper or .avi container. Are you suggesting that I need to convert my video files to .mov or .avi files? Do you, or anyone else, know what steps would be involved in converting HDV video content to .mov or.avi?

[Neil Harris]

i don’t know much about the technical aspects but we have just started working with hdv and are capturing it using final cut express then bringing those clips straight into AE.

seems to work fine though the footage has an unusual pixel ratio that just looks wrong – we interpreted it as dv pal and looked ok to us…

neil

[Mylenium]

[neil harris] “i don’t know much about the technical aspects but we have just started working with hdv and are capturing it using final cut express then bringing those clips straight into AE.

seems to work fine though the footage has an unusual pixel ratio that just looks wrong – we interpreted it as dv pal and looked ok to us…

neil”

But doesn’t FCE take care of putting it in a *.mov automatically? So technically it would still use a container format rather than a native stream. Anyway, as long as it works… That’s what I was suggesting anyways.

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[Klaus]

Thank you for your replies.

I actually want to keep the footage in it’s HD size and not downscale to DV Pal. What format should I bring it into After Effects (PC) in? Someone has suggested the Animation Codec. Any ideas?