Aharon Rabinowitz
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It all depends on if this is the same project crashing or every project using fdifferent footage.
If it’s the same project, then, yeah, probably some bad footage.
If it’s happening on many projects, then can you give some hints about exactly what’s happening. Hard to judge with so little info.
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A lossless codec is ALWAYS lossless. It has nothing to do with the footage. The codec never loses data, period.
But in some cases, you don’t trim file sizes down as much. But there is no reason to work with uncompressed video. I have never worked anywhere or with anyone that used uncompressed AVI’s.
Any machine with quicktime will be able to use Quicktime with the Animation compression codec.
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A lossless codec is a codec that does not lose any quality in the compression process.
You have to understand that there is a difference between compression and codecs. Some codecs are designed for the web – That means they are designed to keep the filesizde low enough that they can be shared over the web. Those codecs lose quality – they are lossy codecs – right now (technology being as it is) we haven;t come up with a lossless codec good enough for the web, that is also available on all computers.
On the other hand, a lossless codec is a codec that doesn;t get the file size donw to web sizes, but that significantly lowers the file size through compression algorythms. If you have cartoonish animation or text over a solid background, animation Codec can reduce the file size dramatically. If your using high motion video, not as much.
Read this article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation_codec
And then click on the link ion there for “Run Length encoding.” It explains how the Quicktime Animation Codec works in compression.
The point is that some codecs better than others for certian things. but you almost never want to render as AVI uncompressed. There’s no reason to do it.
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By the way – we have an After Effects Expression Forum HERE.
You’ll be able to get better help there as the entire focus of the forum is expressions. You can access it through the same area you accesss all forums.
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I’d probably link the POI to a null with an expression, and just animate the null. You can get better control that way, because you can see the null even when the camera is not selected.
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You can find my tutorial on Safe colors HERE.
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If you only have the choice between Uncompressed avi or Quicktime animation compression (A lossless codec), always go with Quicktime. Files can be quite small comparetively.
Uncompressed AVI is a pointeless format, since there are now lossless AVI compression codecs.
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Here’s a tutorial on Straight vs. premultiplied:
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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Image sequences slow things down in AE too. Better to stick with a movie file.
Some good reasons to use image sequences:
1) To keep file size down (JPEG sequence, for example)
2) To make it easier to store them on DVD
3) They can contain certain 3D data that video files can’t
4) Multi Machine rendering – can only be done with image sequences
5) You use a DDR system that can only accept image sequences and not video (I worked at a company that had this)—————————————-
Aharon Rabinowitz
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wait, what was the 3rd “no?”
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Aharon Rabinowitz
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