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I am having trouble previewing HD video, actually any video, in AE. I have tried everything I know how and sat with Adobe’s great support team for ever trying to fix it. Suggestions or can somebody tell me how to fix this?
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I actually think I figured it out. I have a Vixia HF10 camera and apparently, after talking to Canon about this issue, the format that is native to the camera is too new to play in anything other than the software that came with it. So I have to convert all the files to mpeg and hope that it works.
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NO!!! Don’t convert to MPEG and expect it to work in AE. Read Dave’s Answer!
If the footage you imported into AE is any kind of the following — Native HDV, MPEG1, MPEG2, mp4, m2t, H.261 or H.264 — you need to convert it to a different codec.
These kinds of footage use temporal, or interframe compression. They have keyframes at regular intervals, containing complete frame information. However, the frames in between do NOT have complete information. Interframe codecs toss out duplicated information.
In order to maintain peak rendering efficiency, AE needs complete information for each and every frame. But because these kinds of footage contain only partial information, AE freaks out, resulting in a wide variety of problems.
– The Great Szalam
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I would like to convert it to something else, but the program they give you, which is the only one that can read the file, only exports to mpeg.
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Well that’s unfortunate. I guess you’ll have to take it into Premiere or Final Cut and convert it to something else.
– The Great Szalam
(The ‘Great’ stands for ‘Not So Great, in fact, Extremely Humble’)No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.
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I tried to find a converter, but they are really not free. Does anyone know a free converter for m2ts files? I tried several, to no avail. Unfortunately, I don’t have either of those programs at work.
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Yeah, I have, but thanks.
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