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.mov file doesnt play after rendering
hi there, i’m a total newbie. i was able to successfully render a 10sec 2D animation based off photoshop stills. when i did a RAM preview, it looks ok, so I happily rendered it.
when i played the .mov file, it only played for like 2secs got stucked in the middle and played the last 2-sec frame. kept on playing it but it kept on doing that.
i’m curious if i missed out anything. i didnt export, i rendered. also, there’s no music or whatsoever since it’s my first shot on AE. now i’m totally stuck :o(
pls help! thanks.
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6 Replies
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if you rendered as lossless or uncompressed (or possibly another high data rate codec) you have probably rendered a file that is too big to play from your hard drive. other factors that would affect the data rate would be frame size (like hd) and frame rate (60p).
try taking your render back into ae, drag it to the make comp icon (little film strip button at the bottom of the project window) and then rendering that out to something like photojpeg. or if you have an nle drag the file in there using a dv preset for the project. if you have another compression tool, like sorenson squeeze, you could drag it in there and let it kick out a lower data rate file like mpeg (ae does a crappy mpeg, so i wouldn’t use it for mpegs).
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
hi there kevin, thanks for the tip!
what would be the ideal frame size & frame rate that you would recommend though?
if i get successful, i am planning to convert it so i can play it on dvd player, does dv preset work for this? sorry if my questions sound too trivial but this is my first whack at video/post-production stuff.
thanks again :o)
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if you plan to convert to dvd then you should use the d1 (ntsc for u.s., pal for most others)comp preset in ae. this should give you a comp that is 720×486, 29.97 frames/sec, and a pixel aspect ratio of 0.9.
you’ll have a choice when you render to either keep it progressive (default) or click render settings and set it to render in fields (lower usually for ntsc). you would prefer to render to the lossless codec (even though you may not be able to play the final render off your hard drive) and then take that file to your dvd software to convert to mpeg-2 and make a dvd. you can render to mpeg-2 from ae, but i don’t think ae makes great mpegs and the dvd software will probably do a better job.
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
dave’s right (again), 720×480 is the dvd farme size not the d1 preset i mention (720×486).
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
thanks soooo much to both of you. it works perfectly fine now :o)
appreciate your help.-berns
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no problem… what else are a bunch of people who are bored at work supposed to do all day, anyway?
Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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