Replies – Forums – Brad Beamer

Forum Replies Created

Brad Beamer
June 14, 2007 at 2:16 pm in reply to: Tried this in AE with No Luck – LOTR Text

Brian,

Yeah I’ve been fooling with it still trying to get that look, but I think that’s pretty much it.

Thanks

Brad
Brad Beamer
April 20, 2007 at 3:30 pm in reply to: Importing Flash Professional 8 into AE 7 Problems

Just as an update I wanted to let you know that worked perfectly. I exported in quicktime as an uncompressed MOV movie. And it loaded into Premiere with no problems.

Thanks again!
Brad Beamer
April 9, 2007 at 3:27 pm in reply to: Importing Flash Professional 8 into AE 7 Problems

Ok I can try after work…I’ve never exported in quicktime itself. I didn’t know you could even do that.

Is the animation codec a sequence of pictures, or just recompressed video?

And if it’s compressed, how is the compression? I’m trying to get this out of Flash 8 and into Premiere with little or no compression, as this is a video that will be shown at a wedding reception on a very big screen.

Thanks
Brad Beamer
April 9, 2007 at 1:58 pm in reply to: Importing Flash Professional 8 into AE 7 Problems

Hi,

2 questions:

1. How do I export from Flash 8 with an animation codec? I don’t see those settings…can I do that straight from quicktime?

2. Yes I am positive I used to be able to take a .mov export from Flash 8 into AE 6.5 and it worked just fine. What’s changed in AE 7 to make it not work anymore? I tried quicktime 6.5, but that didn’t work, so I know it’s Adobe’s fault.

Thanks
Brad Beamer
April 7, 2007 at 11:48 pm in reply to: Importing Flash Professional 8 into AE 7 Problems

I am exporting from Flash 8 as a QT…which is basically just a SWF wrapped as a MOV.

I don’t know what codec if any that is….
Brad Beamer
April 7, 2007 at 8:26 pm in reply to: Importing Flash Professional 8 into AE 7 Problems

yes i do.

thanks
Brad Beamer
November 29, 2006 at 10:43 pm in reply to: AE Animation Codec Changing frame rate to 23.976

Well, despite being a Mac guy, you were able to answer a windows question.

You were right about whty my AVI was erroring at 4 GB everytime I rendered.

I was putting this export onto my external hard drive. My computers hard drive is formatted as NTFS. My external is formatted as FAT32.

FAT32 has a limitation that any file cannot exceed 4 GB. So if I just had saved to my hard drive, I would have been fine.

Thanks again Dave

Brad
Brad Beamer
November 29, 2006 at 5:28 pm in reply to: AE Animation Codec Changing frame rate to 23.976

Yeah it’s ok, I was able to pick that up. Rendering is key.

Just curious, why would anyone export? It seems almost all of the same options are in the render queue that are in the exporting tool. Like you said, you can very simply render multiple compositions at once and just walk away. Plus it seems like the rendering queue works faster than the exporting tool. Just something I noticed.

Since you are very knowledgeable, I have one more question – for the future, do you know why when I try and render a composition (only 14 min) as an uncompressed AVI I get a “Not enough space on drive” error at exactly 4.0 GB into the render? The total video is projected on the render queue to be 33GB. I have over 400GB free. Is it possibly a RAM issue?

For this case it was fine, I was able to compress as a MPEG-2 and then put it straight onto a DVD. But for future circumstances, if I want to transfer the video to a different program (like Premiere) I’ll want an uncompressed video if possible.

Thanks again Dave

Brad
Brad Beamer
November 29, 2006 at 3:22 am in reply to: AE Animation Codec Changing frame rate to 23.976

Dave –

I feel like sending you a check for $20. Thank you. I “rendered” instead of exported with the MPEG-2 (dvd) compression and it works beautifully.

Thanks again.

Brad
Brad Beamer
November 28, 2006 at 4:41 am in reply to: Question on Pixel Aspect Ratio

Thanks Dave –

Two remaining problems:

1. I did what you said, exported as a Quicktime compression Sorenson Video 3 and imported in Adobe Encore DVD. When I burned the DVD, the edges of the picture were cut off. Is this because the original file (a Flash file) was square pixels and is now in rectangular?

2. I went back into AE, and I shrunk the composition to 90% (the “action safe”) of the 720 x 480 composition (this is after using the shrink to fit command from the previous export). Now when I tried to export, it won’t work. The Sorenson Video 3 export looks fine for the first 10.5 minutes, then the last 4 are unwatchable. These are the other codecs I’ve tried:

AVI – uncompressed – resulted in saying “bad media” Didn’t finish

Quicktime – uncompressed – resulted in saying “bad media” Didn’t finish

Quicktime – Animation – worked, but transitions were not smooth. I tried to import in Encore anyway, and got this message:

“file is 23.976 frames/sec, must transcode now.” Then it freezes. The file should be 29.97 frames/sec, that’s how I set it.

I’ve tried a few other codecs as well. Most of them compress poorly.

Anyway, I have a 14.5 minute presentation in AE that I would like to burn in Encore DVD without losing quality (or very very little at least).

Why is this so hard? I would think this should be easy.

Any imformation would help. Thanks again Dave!