Angelo Lorenzo
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What are your export settings?
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The Create Proxy command is mostly used internal of After Effects, to render out complicated elements as you build your comps – not the best route for what you’re trying to achieve.
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XDCAM is a specific implementation of the MPEG-2 codec. Do not render DVCPRO, it’s a completely different compression scheme.
Select MXF OP1a as your export container. You can then select XDCAM as your export codec. You will need to rewrap from MXF to the MOV container using a program like FFMBC.
It’s a commandline utility, so rewrapping will look like
ffmbc -i input.mxf -vcodec copy -acodec copy output.mov
https://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/Alternately, export uncompressed from After Effects and use FFMBC to convert.
https://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/wiki/XDCAMHD422Encoding——————–
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What app are you using to read the frame rate as 24.~~~? And a screenshot of where you’re seeing this number.
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Nope. In the left panel, drag all your clips onto the new comp icon, not into a single comp. The new comp icon is in the lower right corner of your library/bin panel that lists files and comps. Doing it this way creates one comp per file. The new comps will be pre-highlighted, drag the result into the render queue.
Alternately, you can also try dragging your source files directly into the render queue, you’ll notice AE will create single comps for them as well.
As far as replacing, you go into your library/bin in AE, right click and select “replace footage”. I’d look for a script to help with this function as it can be insanely tedious with large projects.
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I’ve had no issues with my Nvidia cards or the Adobe Suite while on Win 8, at least no issues stemming from Win 8 itself.
Due diligence, make sure there are drivers for any legacy hardware and make the jump.
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Why not add a “refresh” button to your panel/script that triggers your script to run again?
The only other real solution is to have the script poll (ask for) the project info every ~5 seconds and update the panel if it senses a change. Off the top of my head I’m not sure if AE scripts can do polling… the javascript function is called setInterval.
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-50 is, according to the all knowing Google, a file read error; usually a drive issue. Your solution points to the possibility of a folder permissions issue.
What’s the server situation? Mac-based with access through a Window’s Network Drive connection? Perhaps rebuilding permissions on that drive/Raid may help the issue from the Mac machine.
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If they’re ESP files then they’re infinitely scalable. If you don’t have Adobe Illustrator then open them up in Photoshop and you can enter a pixel size for it to be rasterized (converted from line art to pixels).
Just tell your client in plain words: “I need high quality jpeg images that are 1920×1080 minimum. The larger the better.” They’ll invariably ask “what about the DPI? Oh won’t someone think of the DPI??????” and you’ll reply “DPI doesn’t matter, just give me 1920×1080 or larger”.
If they still decide to send you 400×600 images then scale them up and put the filename and timecode in a cue sheet. When you’re doing progress reports, send them the cue sheet and say “I need this artwork in 1920×1080 or larger to replace our placeholder images you sent earlier this week”.
If they refuse or don’t have any better artwork or images, then go with the flow. Client is always right.
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No.
Consider levels the same as hardware power. If a piece of hardware like a TV with a memory card reader supports level 4 then it may not playback a file that is level 5. Higher levels usually mean more resolution, faster framerates, and higher bitrates – all of which need more powerful hardware.
The best way to keep your files as compatible as possible is to use the lowest level you can (level 3 or 4 for HD material).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264#Levels
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Angelo LorenzoNeed to encode ProRes on your Windows PC?
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