[Adam Mcewen]

Awesome guys, thanks for your help.

[Adam Mcewen]

I’v made a note of all your sugestions and im going to try the stuff in the previous post at a later time if the problem carries on. For now im happy to go with doing the final render in an external editor. If i leave the audio unchecked in the render settings in after effects then it will render the video fine, so im going to do what you suggested dave for the time being, and match the audio and rendered video in an editing programme.

Thanks again everyone, appreciate the help.
Adam

[Adam Mcewen]

Thanks for the advice Darby, Dave, i appreciate the help.

Im not sure what is wrong specifically, i just keep getting the same ‘After Effects error: Opening audio compressor movie — Bad parameter (-50). (44::74)’ message when i try to make movie, heres the wierd bit though: i just tried to render without any audio in the comps atall and the same message comes up! Im baffled and starting to get slightly worried! (This is a major project for my degree with deadlines on the horizon).

I have tried to render out of ableton with different audio settings but that doesnt seem to make a difference. Any more ideas??!

Adam

[Adam Mcewen]

Cheers for the widescreen advice.

The audio is still a problem though. The original file is a wav. Just for future reference, should mp3’s be converted because they click by any chance. That is another problem i was having on a few previous projects, not herd it in this one yet so fingers crossed.

[Adam Mcewen]

Cheers for the reply sam,

No, there is no custom. It looks like wide screen when i view it with the toggle pixel aspect ratio correction button on, when i flick that off it squashes everything to what looks like 4:3. It ram previews fine but when i test rendered, it looked like it does with the button off. Any other ideas?

For the sound, the file is a wav and i am rendering out as a quicktime .mov file. I have tried no compression, H.264, sorrenson 3, MPEG4. The audio settings are at 44.100khz, 16bit and stereo, i have tried changing these and using compression and a different message sometimes apears when i do this:

After effects error: opening sound component (-2166). (10::44)

[Adam Mcewen]

Heres what i am thinking (deep breath), i place all of the screens and the buildings as 3D layers in their position in one comp, create all of the camera moves, i then cut and paste all of the screens and camera moves in to another comp, apply the shine, bring in two of the building comps and make one of them in to an alpha track matte.

Do you think that will work?

[Adam Mcewen]

Cheers Ben, I do need to create the walls of the buildings and the screens on different comps as i am adding trapcode shine to the screens (3D, using null and adjustment layers), also the screens are going to be slightly offset from the buildings. Really apreciate the help though.

Can anyone tell me how to use the alpha from a comp to mask transparency in another? Ben? Anyone?