Quicktime footage freezes in exported comp (export problem)

[Darby Edelen]

[peter lacalamita] “I export from render queue my comp which has various stills and quicktime footage layers.”

What codec are the QuickTime MOVs encoded with?

Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Peter Lacalamita]

Hi Darby,

The footage is animation codec .mov and I tried photo jpeg
codec as wll, w/the same results. I’ve since replace some footage w/ .swf footage and the problem seems to momentarily
disappeared, so I wonder if it’s a qt codec issue.

Any ideas?

Thanks so much for your help, kind sir.

Peter
magneticstudio.com

[Darby Edelen]

Animation shouldn’t have any problems, that’s strange. Do you notice anything odd about the footage in the info portion of the project panel? Frame rate? Have you messed with your ‘Secret’ preferences in the past (if you don’t know what these are, then don’t worry)? Are you using OpenGL?

Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Peter Lacalamita]

I checked the footage info in project window. 30 fps anim codec alpha straight. My comp is 29.97 fps but don’t think that’s a problem. The footage was exported from flash 8 as a .mov.

Open gl is not used and I haven’t changed secret prefs recently.
My app is installed on an external firewire drive purchased 6 months ago. Whenever I open AE, I’m asked to repair and I enter
my admin pass. Could this be a contributing factor?

I have another backup firewire drive hooked into this drive via firewire, and it’s 90 percent off. Could their be a FW issue?

THX,
p

[Peter Lacalamita]

Thanks Dave for tip..:)
No styles used in my current problematic comp.

P

[Peter Lacalamita]

Whenever I purge all, the problem disappears. But eventually it
returns….memory issue?….Aaaargh!

Peter

[Darby Edelen]

[peter lacalamita] “My app is installed on an external firewire drive purchased 6 months ago.”

It is NEVER a good idea to run applications off an external hard drive, and in my experience can lead to a multitude of errors.

Darby Edelen
Lead Designer
Left Coast Digital
Santa Cruz, CA

[Peter Lacalamita]

I was afraid of that..:)
Is there any risk to simply copying my AE app folder to my main drive?

If not, I’m thinking of doing that. But I’m midway through
a couple of projects and NEED my app to work, however limited
it may be at the present state.

p

[Peter Lacalamita]

Is there any risk to my app by copying it to my main drive?

Re. firewire drives, should I just be plugging them into the tower’s fw port, and not the port on the back of the external fw drive?

P

[Henry Drisch]

Hi, I have the same problem with video footage freezing.
I tried changing the coded of the imported video, but the problem keeps coming back. Even when rendering the comp, the video footage freezes at random points.

I use Mac AE CS3, everything running from my desktop, and all imported videos are in .mov formats. Besides some simple effects (hue, levels etc) I don’t use any fancy stuff.
Could anyone help please? Thanks.