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Adrian Rössler
November 30, 2011 at 3:31 pm in reply to: Toggle a layer’s opacity (or other property) on/off to preview effects?

Alright, thanks for the tips. Too bad this isn’t realized natively in the GUI. The workarounds offer little advantage over creating/deleting keyframes; both things take up time and have to be cleaned up afterwards. I’ll keep doing it as usual, things could be far worse!
Adrian Rössler
November 29, 2011 at 11:15 pm in reply to: Toggle a layer’s opacity (or other property) on/off to preview effects?

I’m looking to do that, but with a layer whose opacity is 0% at that frame. I want to see it despite that and without messing with keyframes of that property. Unfortunately neither the ‘Eye’ nor ‘Solo’ can achieve that to my knowledge.
Adrian Rössler
July 23, 2008 at 8:48 pm in reply to: H.264 image quality issue during stills

They really do come cheap nowadays.

I tried exporting it with x264’s lossless mode and it’s tons smaller than e.g. a PNG image sequence. The image (quality) is indistinguishable from AE’s workspace, so it’s definitely good enough for my hobbyist needs.

So i’ll export [Video] -> [h264 “lossless”], [Audio] -> [MS-PCM WAV] and merge the two in VDub for the final encode. That gets the job done alright.

Thanks again!
Adrian
Adrian Rössler
July 23, 2008 at 12:38 pm in reply to: H.264 image quality issue during stills

Yes, the latter is the case, AE’s export causes these problems. I will follow your advice and try to compress it in VDub or so. The thought of a lossless movie at that resolution makes me cringe though, i hope it fits on my drive 🙂

x264 (another h.264 codec) offers a “lossless” codec option, i’ll see how much smaller that is and and if it holds up to the name.

Thanks for the help!
Adrian Rössler
July 22, 2008 at 8:23 pm in reply to: H.264 image quality issue during stills

The source is only still imagery of high quality, no imported video. But if i understand you right, H.264 codecs aren’t as robust as desirable yet.

My former project with comparable content has a 640×480 resolution and didn’t show these issues, even at bitrates around 1Mbit/s.
Adrian Rössler
April 23, 2008 at 11:09 am in reply to: Video “stutters” during motion sequences

Thanks for your responses gentlemen.

I use RAM previewing as the reference. I have to correct myself on the panning judder within AE, which is in fact just a small “step” moving from bottom to top every few seconds. Could even be a video acceleration side effect for all i know.

I experimented with a couple more formats and monitored the disk I/O, which peaked at about 3MB, so my generic 7200rpm drive with 8MB cache should handle that.

Turns out frame rate is the issue, and the 30fps is right at the limit where it becomes visible. So “video judder” it is, blimey!

Video Test at 30fps and then 25fps.

If i want to have this on Youtube, i guess i’ll have to sacrifice the fast panning sequences.

Adrian