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  • Poor Performance with HDV footage

    Posted by Lee Eric on May 1, 2007 at 9:02 pm

    I am using footage shot on a JVC HD110U. It works great in Premiere but when I attempt to work with any of the footage in AE it becomes very sluggish and almost inoperable. Any suggestions or insight?
    Thanks.

    Tim Vaughan replied 19 years ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Kevin Camp

    May 1, 2007 at 9:45 pm

    i think you’ll want to use an intermedate codec that doesn’t use interframe compression to go between ae and pp… i don’t think hdv can be set to not use interframe compression.

    you’d hate to use another lossy codec, so i would try to use lossless animation, but it will eat up a lot more disk space. an image sequence would work well too. if you had to conserve disk space, photo jpeg might be a decent lossy codec to look at.

    Kevin Camp
    Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

  • Tim Vaughan

    May 1, 2007 at 10:11 pm

    Generally, I convert the HDV footage to DVCPro HD, same size. It costs a bit more in real estate, but is much faster than HDV. You can pick up a great converter called MPEG Streamclip by Squared 5 that does some great conversion if you do not have the cards on your computer. Hope this helps…

    Tim

    Tim

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