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Quicktime movies not playing back properly WITHIN After Effects
Hi,
I’ve put together a showreel for the company i work for which consists of a 3d fly through of a series of screen capture quicktime videos of all the websites we’ve designed.
The problem is that when i first start up After Effects the screen captures all play out fine during the 3d flythrough, but after a few minutes none of them play out anymore, they freeze but the 3d camera work and everything else continues to work fine.
These screen captures are misbehaving even when they’re not in a 3D environment and it’s just a standard 2D pan and scan around the quicktime movie. The pan and scan will carry on working but the quicktime freezes.
I’ve tried reloading all the files.
Please Help! Is it a Quicktime player issue? I’m running Quicktime Pro version 7.5.
Thanks.
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14 Replies
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What codec are these QT files?
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Animation codec.
I used Snapz pro to produce them. -
Sure… but what CODEC did you use?
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Quicktime’s Animation codec
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Tabitha,
If I’m understating your situation correctly, I often have a similar problem when using my lap top and playing back large Quick Time animation based files. Have you tried setting them as Proxy files until the final render?
Clint
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Tabitha,
If I’m understating your situation correctly, I often have a similar problem when using my lap top and playing back large Quick Time animation based files. Have you tried setting them as Proxy files until the final render?
Clint
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Hi Clint,
Thanks for the reply,
yes i’ve tried using proxies but it still makes no difference and sometimes even in the final render the quicktime’s freeze whilst the rest of the composition works fine. It’s so inconsistent it’s driving me mad.Tabitha
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Thanks, yes i double checked all their properties in Quicktime and it says they were compressed using the animation codec which is what i wanted. Perhaps it’s lying.
I also captured two videos with Camtasia and even they keep freezing randomly in different places within the sequence and once rendered out and exported.Baffling.
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Hi Tabitha,
Did you solve your issue? One other thing that comes to mind is how big are your QT source files and how much RAM do you have?
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Hi,
no it’s not solved 🙁
The quicktimes i’m using vary in size from 15MB to 391MB and they all seem to misbehave equally as much.I have 3GB of ram running on a 2.4Ghz dual core imac.
perhaps i need to change something in my After Effects preferences?
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