I’ve attached a 5 second test clip. If I try to open it in photoshop on mac it takes ages to load. It stalls or at least is very sluggish. On the ‘progress’ dialogue it says ‘reading video format’ whilst the progress bar moves very slowly. (attached screenshot)

However, on my PC the same file opens very quickly and playback is fine. My suspicion is…

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Hi Hector, thanks so much for your detailed response – appreciate that. I’ve tried loading the mp4 from desktop to no avail and also converting to mov but neither worked unfortunately. As it runs smoothly on pc I feel it can only be something photoshop mac version related. As whatever codec was used to create the video is supported on pc version.

I…

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Hi, opening MP4’s works well on my PC but my M1 MacBook Air is very slow to load them.

They’re only small files/short clips (5secs) but take ages to load and playback is temperamental. This makes it unworkable.

I’m wondering if anyone might know why and what specs are required to load MP4’s into PS?

As it’s an M1 chip the laptop is decent/modern and…

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Thanks all for your informative answers. Have a good weekend.

Thanks for your message. Great, I’ll therefore stick with native export.

Do you know when direct MP4 export was introduced? Was it in 2023?

PS What is the 40bit preset? Is it the same as 40Mbps? Does this drastically increase file size? Is it noticably better quality?

Hi, previously I think it wasn’t actually possible to natively eport to MP4. However, now in AE 2024 it is directly possible through the render queue. So I’m curious as to why I’d do this through the media encoder like tutorials suggest? Ideally I’d not bother with installing the encoder.

Could someone confirm that this is a new functionality in…

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Does anyone know any video editors that can do this? I no longer want my huge image library on my hard drive and would prefer to simply have my collection online as saved/bookmarked google images – as that’s generally where I acquire them.

I’m surprised I can’t find anything like this. Ultimately I’d like it to work how Google Slides works inasmuch…

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Hi, I’m using AE 2023 with an RTX 3080. I followed the below steps to troubleshoot this issue (attached) but unfortunately to no avail…

https://www.flixity.co/post/how-to-fix-adobe-media-encoder-gpu-acceleration-cuda-greyed-out-disabled-or-not-available

Does anyone know what I need to do to use GPU acceleration for rendering?

Thanks,

Adam

Hiya, thanks for reply. This worked but couldn’t get ctrl + alt + / to open the import dialogue. This would be a neat replacement to ctrl + i if it automatically places the footage in the timeline.

Thanks Shahan, this worked as a replacement to drag & drop from project to timeline. ‘Create layers at composition start time’ must be unchecked in ‘preferences > general’ to place at current time.

I couldn’t get ctrl + / to actually open the import dialogue though. This would be a neat replacement to ctrl + i if it automatically places the footage…

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Thanks Shahan, this worked as a replacement to drag & drop from project to timeline. ‘Create layers at composition start time’ must be unchecked in ‘preferences > general’ to place at current time.

I couldn’t get ctrl + / to actually open the import dialogue though. This would be a neat replacement to ctrl + i if it automatically places the footage…

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Hi, does anyone know if there’s a keyboard shortcut for adding images/footage to the timeline? Otherwise it’s seemingly only drag and drop?

Thanks,

Adam

Hi, AME is working fine except for when I add AE comps to the queue. I click start, it goes through ‘Connecting to Dynamic Link Server’ and then crashes before encoding/rendering. Any ideas? Both 2022.

Thanks,

Adam

It’s set to 30 so hopefully it should be fixed to that. The bitrate is CBR. Which I think should make it fixed bitrate too? But not sure. I’ve just learnt that the file is corrupted at 1:31 and that is the only point in the video that fails on playback through windows media player. This is seemingly stopping it from being converted, transferred or…

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I don’t seem to be able to convert it to any other format it seems. The file plays fine but it can’t be edited or converted – so it’s partially corrupted? Or perhaps you know of a workaround? I tried another online converter but it failed too. I may have to use another editing program like kinemaster perhaps to get this edited.

Unfortunately it crashed during export to ProRes. So some h264 clips are dodgy then? ah, good to know. Shame about that though. Here’s my OBS encoding options… attached. Which would you use for AE import?

Thanks so much!

Adam

Thanks for your response. I think the hardware is ok, I’ve been using a GTX 1080 and a fairly decent SSD for a while with no issues.

I’m thinking it might be the format of some clips I’m using. All of my stock clips work fine, it’s just the vlog clips I’m using via livestream software OBS, they’re the problem I think. Even though they’re all H.264…

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Thanks for this. The codec of the imported clip is H.264. I have many other clips using this codec but no issues with those. What other clip parameters could be problematic?

Strangely I was having no issues with my workflow of importing footage from my phone via livestream app (obs) but suddenly it stopped working. Which led me to believe it must…

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Hi, I’ve just installed a clean version of Windows 10 to troubleshoot this issue – but to no avail. I was merrily working away on AE 2022 for weeks but just this Monday I ran into a MAJOR issue!

When I hit space bar to play the RAM preview AE freezes/crashes and the frame looks like the attached image. The clip is reduced to top left with a black…

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