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Proofing AE renders
We have compositions at 1920 x 1080 in After Effects that are both 24p (23.976) and 30p (29.97) rendered out as uncompressed QT .mov files. We are looking for a way to proof the renders from my desktop (MAC) on a HD TV monitor. Can someone recommend a way to do this? We do not have a HD work flow and our AVID’s can not handle our renders.
We have tried a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card, only to find out they don’t support 24p. This also appears to only RAM preview real time but the RAM preview does not show what were looking for. We need to proof the actual renders.
Note: This stems from the fact that our 24p renders are stuttering on the render / moves – There appears to be no way to see this except for when we bring the files down to our post facility. Not very efficient!
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I just had a similar problem the other day and what I ended up having to do was render out as a image sequence and it got rid of the stutter. I can’t take credit for this fix however as I found the solution here https://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b581e8 they had some other ideas posted but I stopped when I found the image sequence worked for me. Hope this helps
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I looked at the Adobe page and I saw no visible solution. Is the “Image Sequence” a completely uncompressed, .mov file at 1920 x 1080 and, most importantly, does it work at 24p? This is for broadcast and there can be no image degradation.
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I did try to do that but the playback on my desktop was jittery. I also am not confident that the compressed files were a good approximation of our moves. Any thoughts. We have to send final files 300 miles away and we can’t see the results. Rather frustrating.
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What’s your computer specs? Do you need to upgrade hardware? Raid? Ram? What video card do you have?
Have you tried rendering out and importing into FCP or Premiere then trying playback?
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Dual Mac G5 with 22 gigs of RAM running on local 2 TB drive running OSX 10.5.2. ATI Radeon HD 2600 video card – 256MB VRAM. We run AVID here – won’t deal with uncompressed file.
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Dave,
I never said that we couldn’t afford a better computer but if you look at my specs from my last posting you’ll see that I have a pretty sup’d up Mac.
I did try to generate a h.264 and a mp4 but I might have some of the codec settings wrong. The h.264 looked okay but I think that the 23.978 by nature is going to be a problem. I also did a h.264 at 29.97 and that also stuttered. The mp4 looked awful right off the bat. Can you recommend proper codec settings for the h.264??
I can’t believe that my mac is the problem dealing with the data rate, it is highest end system with 22 gigs of RAM. Should be able to process either of the files without choking.
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