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Out of memory error / TIFF sequence
Hi all,
I’m very new to AE and was just following some tutorials from here to start the learning proccess, mainly the ‘flock of birds’ one.
I’ve gone through everything fine and decided to put the flock of birds over the top of an architectural animation that im making, i already have the animation in MPG format so i imported it, layered the birds over the top, and everything went fine…………… until i ran the final animation. The birds fly accross fine but the QUALITY seems to have dropped badly and im not sure why, even in the preview window as soon as i drop in my animation file you can see the edges look all un-anitaliased. Any ideas?
The next problem was when i imported the first TIFF file of this animation (it’s 2000 frames long- about a minute) I imported the first TIFF file as a sequence and it looked like i’d fixed the problem with quality – but now i cant export the animation with an out of memeory error (after effects error: photoshop file format — out of memory (-108)
I’ve tried adding the composition to a render que, and also exporting as seperate frames, both JPEG and TIFF fomats with no luck – It’s driving me a bit mental because this PC is new, it’s got 2gb memory and this isn’t even a bit animation!!
Can anyone help me??
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[chalkgsy] “I’ve gone through everything fine and decided to put the flock of birds over the top of an architectural animation that im making, i already have the animation in MPG format so i imported it, layered the birds over the top, and everything went fine…………… until i ran the final animation. The birds fly accross fine but the QUALITY seems to have dropped badly and im not sure why, even in the preview window as soon as i drop in my animation file you can see the edges look all un-anitaliased. Any ideas?”
Make sure your preview resolution is set to full and layer quality set to best. Also: why are you using an MPG clip? It’s a heavily compressed format and quality won’t get better from uncompressing and recompressing things. I strongly advise you try to get an uncompressed/ lossless compressed version of your clip. AE has to decode your MPG and interpolate frames which leads to major loss in quality. On the same matter: Make sure your footage interpretation is right and you are not mixing different framerates when there is no clear reason to do so.
[chalkgsy] “The next problem was when i imported the first TIFF file of this animation (it’s 2000 frames long- about a minute) I imported the first TIFF file as a sequence and it looked like i’d fixed the problem with quality – but now i cant export the animation with an out of memeory error (after effects error: photoshop file format — out of memory (-108)”
Your TIFF files are either damaged or in a sub-format tha AE can’t handle. There are way over 100 different flavors of TIF and you may have settled for the wrong one. Convert your iamges to another format (Targa, PSD, RPF, RLA or a different TIF sub-format). This can be easily done using Photoshop automation or Image viewers/ converters such as XnView.
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Thanks for the reply 🙂
I didnt know TIFF had so many flavours. I’n rendering out of Cinema 4D at the default TIFF setting but also tried rendering out of After Effects using a bunch of JPEG images of a different animation with the same problem. I’ll give your suggestions a go and see how i get on.
The only reason i imported a MPG file was because the images sequence thing was crashing and that all i had, still, the mpg looks fine untill i bring it into AE.
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Mmh, indeed very strange. The default TIFFs in C4D should work like a charme as they are uncompressed and the most basic TIFF format available. The only thing that explains it for me is a Quicktime issue as C4D uses parts of QT even for saving images. Should not affect TIFFs, though, as that is hard-coded into C4D’s core.
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