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Alan Waldo
May 27, 2009 at 9:23 pm in reply to: QuickTime problem

In Quicktime (pro at least, I don’t know about standard) if you open up the Movie Inspector (Window: Show Movie Inspector, or command+I), under format it should tell you what codec the movie uses.
Alan Waldo
May 27, 2009 at 8:22 pm in reply to: Transfering elements from project to project

You can go into your project window and import a second project into the one you currently have open.
Alan Waldo
May 14, 2009 at 9:56 pm in reply to: Is there a way to resize original photos but keep size in AE?

If I’m understanding your situation correctly, one thing you might try is loading the re-sized pictures into After Effects as proxies for the originals. I believe After Effects will then replace all the images with the smaller files, but keep scaling, transformations, etc. consistent. You can then render out using the “Use proxies” feature in your render settings.

I haven’t tried this myself ever, and I’m having proxy issues of my own right now, but I believe this method is theoretically sound.

Alan
Alan Waldo
May 14, 2009 at 5:16 pm in reply to: Proxy trying to buffer at original size

This is happening while I’m working on the comp, rendering for preview or just moving within the timeline. In final output I have it set to “Use no proxies”, and have the processor settings such that, while a very slow render, it finishes without errors.

Before I learned about proxies, I was working with images this size and running into the same problem. My solution then was to restart After Effects whenever the error popped up, and then I could usually get another 5-10 minutes of work in before I got the error again. I was hoping that using a smaller proxy would allow me to avoid this error; but so far, that’s not the case.

Thanks,

Alan