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  • Footage rendered black and now shows as black in the project

    Posted by Olly Lawer on January 27, 2012 at 11:45 am

    Hi,

    I’m working with 1080i footage shot on an EX1.

    Dropped footage into AE, created new comp from footage (kept as 25fps as not sure how AE handles interlaced, but changed to 50 and makes no difference). Motion tracked using footage. All other layers render fine but preview of render shows the video as black. Resulting QT only shows text and shape layers. Video black. Now back in comp, video black too (wasn’t before).

    Any thoughts?

    Olly Lawer

    Michael Szalapski replied 14 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Olly Lawer

    January 27, 2012 at 11:59 am

    Sorry. Now solved. Took footage into FCP and rendered out as QT, then dropped into AE. Bit of a pain, but at least a solution.

    BTW, should I be working with 25 or 50fps for AE with 1080i?

    Thanks

    Olly Lawer

  • Michael Szalapski

    January 27, 2012 at 2:35 pm

    I believe 25 should do you fine. Just don’t forget to change your render settings to render out interlaced.

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