Batch Rendering .AVI’s in CS3 on a Mac

[Kevin Camp]

you might try ‘export’ form the file menu… you can select avi and set the compression to none, which i assume is the same as uncompressed (i’ve never tried).

but hears the catch… in my experience with cs3 and export (which i do use when render can’t give me the format i need), it will not use multiprocessing to ‘export’ the render. so you may, in fact, save time by rendering to mov, then fire up compressor to batch convert those mov’s to avi’s (compressor will use multiple processors to convert/compress files).

but i’d give export a try and see how bad the ‘export’ time is vs the ‘render’ time…

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Zachary Hollifield]

Yes, but with “file>export” have to do the renders one at a time, right? I’d definitely need to que them for a overnight render so it can plow trough 100 of them…

[Sami Succar]

I’m not sure if this is a complete stupid reply.
Can’t you use the render queue to do that?

[Zachary Hollifield]

Yeap. I’ve got “Flip4Mac Studio Pro HD” as well as the normal “Flip4Mac” but its not showing up in the AE render options to make any type of “.AVI”. I’ve been using compressor for a couple years now doing the batched conversions and haven’t seen any artifacts or compression issues, lets keep my fingers crossed this year! Hah.

I’ll keep hacking at it in AE and if I come across a solution I’ll post, and I hope if anyone else finds a way, please share it 🙂

Thanks for the speed responses,
I appreciate it.
-Zach

[Kevin Camp]

as for file>export… yes, you’d have to do them one at a time… unless you wrote/found a script to allow batch exporting. you might check aenhancers.com or crgreen.com/aescripts to see if they have an export script.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Zachary Hollifield]

On a PC maybe. On a mac, no, not for .AVI’s unless “Flip4Mac” would be recognized in your normal AE render que settings for quicktime, which mine is not (very frustrating). I guess double the exporting is my only solution for the time being. I will definitely continue to look into this so its not a road block for others.

-Zach

[Kevin Camp]

i think flip4mac is for wmv rather than avi wrappers, so i don’t think it would be of any help for your situation…. i also did a quick search for an ae ‘export’ script that might help in batch exporting, but i didn’t find anything.

it does seem possible though… it would need to generate a list of, say, selected comps, then run through a set of export steps. seems easy enough, but i don’t know enough java to write scripts for ae…

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Pedro Granell]

Hi,I try to create or convert the movie anaglyph 3D avatar but when under the file (file) avi I get the error message screen, overflow converting ratio denominator (17::18).I would like to know that mean and how do I correct.Any help will be grateful.Pedro thanks in advance

[Pedro Granell]

Que significa Error:Overflow converting ratio dominator (17::18).Como puedo corregirlo.Gracias anticipada Pedro.Perdonen si he cometido algun error;pero es que soy nuevo en esto.

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[Pedro Granell]

Hola,Soy nuevo en esto;Segui los paso de un video para convertir un avi file en 3D.Segui todos los pasos indicado en video;Pero cundo empeso la combercion(render)note que el peso(Mb) de la pelicula aumentaba dramaticamente(Ej.Para 40 minutos de convercion practicamente me vacio el disco duro cogio 44Gb.Favor de ayudarme con este problema para hacer una convercion normal.Muchas gracias su srevidor Pedro

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