H264 or ProRes in After Effects

[Joe Orange]

Version 10.
What specifically could go wrong, dropped/duplicated frames, sluggish performance?

[Kevin Camp]

i can’t attest to this fully, as i’m still using cs4 (possibly todd can shed some light here), but i would imagine that h.264 may still add some unpredictability to ae… maybe not crashes, but an occasional frame anomaly.

i can guarantee that h.246 will use more cpu when you are working with it… now whether that’s enough noticeably effect performance would come down to how many h.264 layers are in a comp, how powerful your system is and how efficiently your setup is.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Joe Orange]

Many thanks guys – ProRes it is!