Importing Trouble

[Kevin Camp]

are you previewing the footage by hitting the zero on the numbers pad or hitting the spacebar…?

if you are hitting the spacebar (called standard preview), then ae is reading the preview from the disk, and that may be causing the issue. hitting the zero will cache the rendered frames to ram (called ram preview) and should playback in realtime.

if it’s not that, then we would need to know more about your footage… where it came from (export from nle, captured using some utility, file off camera, etc), the codec used (uncompressed, dv, mpeg, etc), file type (avi, mov, etc) and where it plays back smoothly (media player, quicktime, nle, etc) or at least the last time it played back smoothly (nle, tape, etc)….

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Christopher Mallan]

I’ve tried playing the footage in realtime and it makes no difference so i’m guessing it’s a footage issue! The files were taken straight from a DV camera and are .mov files and they have only played smoothly when I viewed them on the camera. Hope this helps.

Cheers, C

[Kevin Camp]

it sounds like maybe there was a problem capturing….

what did you use to capture from your dv camera, and where did you capture too? i assume you connected via firewire, but did you capture the footage to an internal drive, usb drive, firewire drive…

the internal drive might be the best of those options, but if the drive is getting full you will lose performance, and may be getting bad captures.

if you tried to capture to a firewire drive, you may be having too much data through the firewire bus, with both the data coming in from the camera and the data going back out tot he drive.

and even usb2.0 is not as reliable as firewire400 for consistent read/write speeds.

Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW