My AE 6.5 wont load mpeg2’s

[Steve Roberts]

Neither one of those formats is a good choice. Try converting to Quicktime Animation, PNG, or Photo-JPEG.

[Paul Parnell]

I’m capturing it in Premire Elements and it comes in as mpeg2 I’d like to keep it that if it will work. All thought any other high rez format will work.

[Steve Roberts]

AE doesn’t like interframe-compressed formats such as MPEG-types and other delivery formats. Use the formats I mentioned.

[Paul Parnell]

I tried converting it to .mov but the quility sucks and it still wouldn’t import it.

[Paul Parnell]

I tried converting it in many ways but I keep getting errors.

This time,
After Effects error: retriving frame from video stream

[Rhett Robinson]

Hi Paul,
Why MPEG2? Is your camera capturing onto a a mini-DVD or something? Although a few applications will work reasonably well with that type of format (usually just cuts to prevent further degradation, like VideoReDo), Steve is right, AE doesn’t like that at all, as it’s usually a final format, output for DVD, not for working. MPEG is very lossy, and is a complicated stream that doesn’t work well for editing, and will have to re-encode if you do anything. Depending on what you’re wanting to do, you may want to make a proxy of the movie to import to AE, make your animation, and import into Premiere. In the future, you should have a conversion into one of the formats Steve mentioned, or read up on some of the different codec/compression formats. A good “quickstart” is watching Aharon’s tutorial on compression.

[Paul Parnell]

This sounds good in theroy, but even when I change the format it gives me errors. The footage works fine in Elements, but not in AE. I want to change the footage, got any ideas on how to do it without loosing any quility, and it working. Which of course is also important.

Thanks,
Paul

[Paul Parnell]

Thanks, I actually just started screwing with it. Your right though and I thank you for your help.
Paul