[Adam Shamoon]

Hi Dave,

I do get it. Thanks. I wasn’t writing this as a way of down playing the value of your advice, I was letting you know the nature of my situation in the hopes that there was another option. Clearly there wasn’t one (or one that you knew of), so, yes, I was opening it up for others to lend a hand.

In terms of my project, I am not using any of the audio native to the footage. It will be entirely music and sound FX, so that’s why I decided to try off setting the footage in AE and taking it from there. This worked, fortunately. I also tried uploading the “non-sync’d” original to the web, and it played spot on. So it looks like I will have two versions, one off set to play on cpu’s and the original to upload.

Thanks, again, for your help.

Adam

[Adam Shamoon]

Converting the HD footage is not an option for me at this point. I was thinking if anything I would try the positioning of the footage in the clip to see if I could offset things. I’m just too far along and don’t want to give up on this work.

[Adam Shamoon]

Hi Dave,

I just tried the test, and it didn’t seem to help. I tried it with comps at 1/2, then 1/3 of the original size, per your suggestion. Any thoughts? Is there something in the render settings that I should be double or triple checking?

Is this the time when I start having to mess with the footage itself, despite AE’s RAM preview telling me everything’s ok? I was hoping to avoid that….

Adam

[Adam Shamoon]

I’m actually a pc. I don’t have QT Pro, unfortunately.

I haven’t tried the test you suggested yet, but I did want to ask you one more thing. I sent the rendered file to my friend. He had the same syncing issues with the rendered file. What are the odds that two different computers had the same result, if, as you say, the syncing issue is due to the deficiencies in my hardware?

[Adam Shamoon]

Thanks, Dave.

[Adam Shamoon]

Thanks, Dave. I’ll give it a try.

One last question. I’m going to be uploading for the web when this is finished. Should I have any syncing problems with that if everything seems ok with this test?

Adam

[Adam Shamoon]

Thanks much, Dave.

Is there any other option within AE that I can use to test this without going to QT Pro? I know it’s only $35, but it seems that since I already paid for the CS3 there should be an alternative.

Adam Shamoon

[Adam Shamoon]

Hi Dave,

Are you saying that Automatic Duck would be a solution if I was on a Mac, but will not work on PC? I was a little confused by the wording in your message. Could you please clarify?

Thanks,
Adam

[Adam Shamoon]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the response and the honesty. It is absolutely necessary to piece it together.
If I don’t come up with a solution within the next very short while I may start editing from scratch in AE. Live and learn…

Adam

[Adam Shamoon]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for your quick reply.

This is my situation: I did my initial cut in Vegas, and was hoping to do the final render in AE, importing my work to AE via an AAF file. This did not work, unfortunately, and when I tried re-piecing the cut in AE the stuttering began, making it extremely difficult. At any rate, I have applied some AE effects to part of my project, which I would still like to integrate into the larger project.

The way I see it, unless I find a solution for cutting my Mpeg files in AE, I’ll have to render my AE work twice — once for AE export, then again after piecing it together with the rest of my Vegas footage for a final render in Vegas. I hate to do this, but I see no way around it. Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks,
Adam