How to import multiple TIFF as a sequence

[Carl Larsen]

Jerry,

You should be able to import a file sequence into AE by simply invoking the file>import dialog box, navigating to your sequence, selecting any of the images, making sure the “sequence” option is checked and clicking ok.

If this is consistently giving you problems, you may have a corrupted sequence.

As an alternative, you may want to try opening the sequence in quicktime pro and then exporting a .mov to whatever codec you want to use in AE. In this scenario you’d go to file>open image sequence> navigate to your images> choose 5o fps> and then choose save as… from the menu.Then import the saved .mov into AE and continue working.

I hope that helps.

Carl Larsen

TelescopeMediaGroup.net

[Jerry Romero]

Carl,

I’ve been trying to do “Multiple Files” from the Import box, select one clip. TIFF Sequence box is checked starts to think and then I get an error -43. Is there another great way to convert 60i footage to 50i?

Thanks in advance,

-Jerry

[Darby Edelen]

My guess is that you have at least 1 corrupt image in your sequence, however here’s another possibility:

How many images are in your sequence? If I recall correctly, AE is incapable of handling sequences with more than 32,768 (or so) images in them, which is irritating.

If this is the case then you’d have to segment the sequence into different directories and import them separately to work with them in AE. You could then place those sequences end to end in a pre-comp to have your entire sequence.

Also, if you’re importing many TIFFs as one sequence, you don’t need to use the “Multiple Files” import.

Darby Edelen

[David Bogie]

Are these CMYK tiffs?

bogiesan

[Jerry Romero]

They are RGB TIFF’s and I only have 2,900 frames, so I’m not even close to being at the maximum. I think that Darby might be right in that there’s a TIFF that is corrupted. In the mean time I used “Nattres” on FCP to be able to change the frame rate from NTSC to PAL. That’s what I was attempting to do on AE. If there’s a better way, please let me know… but I still want to know what AE isn’t cooperating, I even try to import just one file and it keeps on crashing.

Thanks in advance,

-Jerry

[Fred Fabre]

It could be a problem with the naming of the TIFF files, you can either try to rename all the files with a renaming tool or, in my case, I did import them by chunks of 999 and it worked.