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Rendering Problems
Hi guys,
We just got After Effects and something is not going as it should, let me try to explain.
We got After Effects because of its rendering capabilities. Eventually we want to put a lot of segments to batch render overnight. In fact, on this particular assignment we are applying no effects, no editing at all we just need to convert them.
I am working with a PC. I am queued rendering about ten clips no more than three minutes long each.
If I render them individually everything goes well but if I try to batch render all of them, the first one to render goes through fine, the other ones are incomplete and finish with errors.
Most of the times the application crashes after this process.
It does not matter what kind of files it is dealing with. Same problem occurs with MPEGs or WMV files.
It does not matter what kind of rendering settings I am using. The error persists.
Any help on this regard would be highly appreciated.Thank you,
Hugo
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Hi guys,
Having in mind your responses I experimented with .MOV files. AE rendered them well; It worked.
Now, this is not good news for us at Sesame Street. We have all these WMV files that need to be converted to MPEG2 (Cell phone content).
According to the software specifications AE is supposed to be able to handle this kind of files.(https://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb402250&sliceId=1) It would very disappointing if that is not the case.
Again, we got After Effects because of its rendering capabilities. Eventually we want to put a lot of segments to batch render overnight: no effects, no editing at all, we just need to convert them.
So what you guys are saying is that there is not a proper/effective way to make AE render files coming from WMV files?
Our whole issue here is efficiency so if we have to convert the files in order to be accepted by AE’ this process would be completely pointless for us ( As we are dealing with hundreds of segments)
Thank you again your help.
Hugo -
I don’t have experience using AE to export mpegs, but after quick glance it looks like the options it provides for are on par with other compression software.
For you’re job, my first choice would’ve been Cleaner.
Squeeze is on par with cleaner, but I don’t like it’s clunky interface and sluggish performance on mac.AE is great for rotating and up-sampling (some compression software/codecs do a poor job of resizing creating pixelated images, and most cannot rotate the picture)
AE can output a variety of containers and codecs BUT it does not go a good job of using those codecs to compress the file size. (ie: you would get a smaller file size with the same quality using a program actually meant for compression). This is based on my experience with MOV containers, perhaps AE handles mpegs more efficiently. -
Wow, super old thread, but perhaps someone can help me?
I just found this morning that the render I set up last friday was missing the first 55 seconds (out of almost five minutes).
My work area is set to the entire timeline. In the past I’ve had some other issues such as no audio when setting the output to audio or corrupted audio when setting it to on.
I’m not entirely positive, but i think this problems started when I installed 2014 a few weeks ago.
Anyone experiencing similar issues? Do you find a correlation between them and having both CC and 2014 in the same machine?
thanks,
D.
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