Cory Petkovsek
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Oh, AVI isn’t a good container for h264. Obviously it is possible to get it in there, but typically it’s not a supported option by various programs. It looks like CS5’s avi importer does not support it. Extract your h264 video stream and your audio stream and mux them into an mp4. Then you won’t need to reencode and AE should read it.
Cory
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What codec? What system? Our answers are simply guesses without specific information.
What if you look at the first few frames in an NLE?
Why not just use the original footage (pre trimmed from QT Pro) and trim off the black part in AE?
Cory
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I agree with Walter. 60gb is too small for too many projects. AE is cpu and memory bound. Put your money there.
Use your 1tb raid0 for your work space. Use the internal 1tb for a daily online backup. Have another external 1tb harddrive for a weekly offline backup. Use DVD/Bluray or ideally tape for archives as needed to get old large projects off your drives. Write a simple script using robocopy to mirror the raid0 to the internal drive, or use synctoy. Use the same or pick up some backup software like genie-soft for the external drive. You only need to plug it in once a week when you back up.
This will give you fast working performance (off the raid0), and three tiers of backup. Today, yesterday, and last week.
Cory
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there are plenty of threads already on this, as well as many other places on the internet. The bottom line is if you have no drive to start your own production company, DON’T!
You’ll work all the time, and wear many hats that you don’t wear now. You already have many non-business hats. Your company will take over your life to get it off the ground. There are benefits to it, but starting a business because you “read in various places that you should” is not a wise decision.
Here’s one such thread:
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/50/857988Cory
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As mentioned, this is a vegas issue. Vegas is great, but included codecs suck. To get the most out of vegas you need to become familiar with and use alternate codecs.
Youtube also sucks and reprocesses your videos and makes them look like crap. You want to give them the highest resolution and highest bit rate possible.
To solve it in AE, you could export with mpeg2 at a high bit rate, or a high bit rate h264 or x264 (below), or even wmv; basically anything they accept at a high bit rate.
In vegas, I would download the vfwx264 codecs which will give you an excellent h264 encoder with access to the individual settings where you can specify CRF 18 or lower.
But frankly I don’t see much difference between the two videos. They both look like cheap camera video and both have the same video artifacts.
If you want to greatly improve the quality of your video, stablize the footage and apply a subtle gamma curve (with the curve effect). You can do this in either vegas or AE.
Cory
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Brett, your lack of specifics makes it more difficult for us to answer your question in a time effective manner which means it may not get answered.
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You’ll do it in steps.
– First find where you want to do the freeze frame.
– Split the layer at the point you want to freeze the action.
– Take a screen shot of the frame you want to freeze into photo shop.
– Separate the character and any other elements you want to animate from the background.
– Apply a stroke as shown.– Import the photoshop file as a new comp.
– Animate the layers for a few seconds; make them 3d and mess with movement as shown.
– Have all of this be it’s own comp which plays for a few seconds after the first part of the split layer. You may wish to trim off a few frames at the beginning for a smoother effect.– Take the rest of the split layer and have it play after the new comp.
– Apply a flash effect for a few frames at the beginning of this section.
– Export this as a clip and put it in your NLE.Cory
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If you precompose the layer, the new comp will be a 2d layer again. You can then add a stroke layer style to the new comp. The 3D layer can be animated underneath and the 2d stroke will update.
Cory
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Power point can embed video. I suggest rather than pushing powerpoint to the limits, work with a motion graphics artist through a program designed for motion graphics like AE. Export a video and embed it as a slide in powerpoint.
Cory
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Look closer at the render queue, there are many more options than just mpegs and movs mainly. Actually there are image sequences mainly. There is a default option for an avi container. Once you dive into the options you’ll be able to specify the codec, including uncompressed as Gary suggested.
Cory
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