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Stop Motion in AE CS5
I am working on a stop motion project where I imported all of my images into AE. I set the comp to 24fps. I stretched the photos to 6 frames so there would be 4 pictures per second. When I render the project I have tried every H.264 variant possible and the final product just doesn’t flow the way I would expect it. It’s choppy (even for stop motion). On playback it seems to miss some frames and just doesn’t have a smooth 4 picture per second look. I have the comp set to 1920 x 1280 because that was the proportional resize of the images I did in Photoshop, which I did because I didn’t want to crop any of the image out to get 1920 x 1080. I also want to keep it as HD as possible.
Any suggestions as to why playback is so choppy, even at a lower quality/file size? Should I not be using AE to create stop motion in the first place?
Thanks for any suggestions!!1920 x 1280 comp
24fps
Photos are 6 frames wide
4 photos per second
H.264 rendering (tried VBR, CBR High, Main and various mbps)
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Why don’t you set your composition to 4 frames per second and have one picture for each frame?
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Thanks for the tips so far guys. I’m fairly new to video editing and rendering has always been the biggest headache for me. I never thought to conpress as lossless file through another compression tool. Before I rendered this project in h.264 I tried all the lossless options available but gave up because of file size and extremely slow playback. I never thought to then compress with a different tool. Do you have any suggestions on an application for that?
I originally had my comp at 23.9… So I will switch it back!
Late last night I went to 3 pictures per second at 24fps and it actually looks pretty good but I would like to try your suggestion so I can play with 4-6 images per second.
Thanks!
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