Dean Bergmann
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Ok, so I compared a CS3 and CS5 rendered file, and the only difference is this bit at the end, which is present in the CS5 render, and not the CS3 one:
Is it possible this is what’s causing the issue?
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Comp settings are identical (in some cases we’re even bringing in the comps from CS3 AE project files),
Anyway, comps are as follows:
1280×720, square pixels, 30fps.
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There doesn’t seem to be a link to the OSX component version, anything on their site is still sitting at 1.0 from 2007.
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I think we’d likely go the MPEG HD route before requiring an added step in workflow 😀
It’s weird, It’s the actual MOV though, it’s totally independant from AE when we’re doing the conversion.. totally mind boggling. I might end up looking at two exact files (one from CS3 one from CS5) and see whats different in a HEX editor or something.
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Because AE doesn’t support exporting to AVIs on the mac side. If I could export directly to an XVID AVI I wouldn’t be having this problem.
Our media player only supports XVID AVIs for the content we’re creating (Well, that’s no true, we can do HD MPEG2 BLURAY, but AVI is legacy for us and it’d require a lot of testing to convert over to mpeg2 reliably).
Anyway, yes. it MUST be an AVI, and it MUST be XviD, and for some reason the codec stopped working when we threw MOVs from AE CS5 at it.
I’ve got a temporary workaround using MPEG streamclip (as it accepts the MOVs and allows for XviD exporting using the very same component from QT), but it’s more of a hassle from a training standpoint when everyone knows how to hit Command-E and save stuff in batches.
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Yes, I know this. QT X doesn’t support exporting to any legacy codecs, so we installed QT 7.x from the disc, updated, added our pro license, and like I said, ONLY with MOV’s created from CS5 does the codec/component disappear.
Any old MOVs in QT7 (on that same machine!) can be converted to XVID, it’s only the MOVs created with AE CS5 that the option disappears.
As I said before, this happens on OTHER machines as well (If we copy the MOV from CS5 to another machine that has say, only CS3 and Leopard on it, it still disappears).
It’s something in the way AE exports the MOV, there’s got to be some new information or something that gets appended to it.
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Neither solution (compressor or media encoder) supports AVI exporting on the mac side.
I don’t get why the outputted MOV would be causing this issue though, it’s not like I’m trying to export them directly from AE CS5… the compression seems identical (even reports back in QT as the same compressor).. and even if i try encoding that MOV on a computer without Snow Leopard or CS5, the codec still disappears.
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Khaannn!
Hopefully that gets resolved soon; as it’s a huge workflow problem for us if we can’t do native XVID AVIs from the mac!
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nope 🙁 here’s hoping CS5 has the ability!
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this works in one case only, but we’re talking about having a set size paragraph area, that will never change, but the TEXT will change.
Imagine if you will, a 16×9 comp, and on the left side we have a paragraph box that’s the height of the comp, but say only 30% of the width.
What I want to do in this is have the text in that paragraph box be centered vertically, and if I add more text, it’ll stay centered vertically and expand upward and downard in that box. (And no, i am not talking the vertical text tool).
The reason I can’t just do an align layer or ‘use photoshop’ is that we use an external script to enter text based on a client’s needs, so we can’t go repositioning the actual layer manually when it’s supposed to be an automatic solution.