[Douglas Kerr]

I’m surprised you can’t do this despite After Fx being notorious for being bad at handling audio.

Thanks for the work around tips with using higher frame rates, very resourceful. I have 40 x 2min clips and have guide audio so can sync up the proper audio to. I wanted to sync by eye on the waveforms but alas can’t get close to it unless I’m lucky.

I guess I have to mark the audio start time and trim all the new audio files in Soundtrack pro and then re-import them to After Effects. what a pain.

thanks for the tips guys.

[Douglas Kerr]

Thanks Dave,

That did indeed stop the problem. A very handy shortcut to remember to reset your preferences CMD+ALT+SHIFT (Mac) on start up of After Effects.

still would love to know where those temp files were created and where the problem was originating from.

anyhow, thanks again

[Douglas Kerr]

Thanks for the quick response.

I’m looking at the After Effects Preferences- Media & Disk Cache tab

I’ve disabled the Disk Cache

I’ve set the Conformed Media Cache Database location and the Cache location underneath it to secondary disks. is that what you meant? Am I missing something?

Where on the OS X startup disk does it normally store the cache ? I’d be quite happy to reset my preferences to default if I knew how.

thanks again,

Douglas

[Douglas Kerr]

Very interested in this technique I’ve seen a few places.

I didn’t think of using C4D to emulate before hand, why have you gone that route out of interest? Would have thought it’s quicker to place the objects and mark where they are positioned and then use visuals software like Modul8 or VDMX to map screens for each surface you want to project onto.

let me know how you get on.

[Douglas Kerr]

Hi Adam, could you please explain how you “reduce to fields in After Effects from 50/60 FPS footage into PAL/NTSC formats.

I have 50 FPS footage and am stumped how to render out and maintain the smooth animation when exporting for TV.

my settings so far are;

footage – 50 FPS (50FPS RPF sequence from C4D and also some DVCPROHD 720P 50)
composition – 50 FPS

Render – tried countless combinations.

If you could explain the settings to change to get this right, spent all day rendering different combinations and looking at threads and no joy.

thanks in advance

[Douglas Kerr]

As expected…When I copied all the elements to a new project, everything works as it should.

So either a setting or bug in the original project file. I’d love to know what it is.

thanks.

Doug

[Douglas Kerr]

yes I’m animating fine in other projects but only parameters from objects in this one project won’t animate. camera movements are fine. properties will not…I think it’s a setting somewhere in this project.

still stumped. I will now try copying all the elements to a new project and see if that solves it. still like to know what is causing it.

thanks. Doug

[Douglas Kerr]

I’m trying to keyframe the ‘visibility’ paramater of polygons in a nested null object. but the values won’t hold. I know that ‘Use’ is like a switch but that’s not the issue, thanks though for the suggestion.

It won’t work when i try to keyframe any objects paramaters. I’ve toggled the ON/OFF paramater for record button but doesn’t make a difference.

any other suggestions?

[Douglas Kerr]

Thanks Brian,

The real problem is still uncertain.

I think it was a combination of trying to render out using unrealistic Animation codec settings and unrealistic expectations of a fast and sharp render at 25FPS.

I have rendered out DVCPROHD 60FPS and it plays nicely with the 30FPS footage I have tested it with in After Effects.

I’m still experimenting with different renders so maybe i’ll discover other contributors

When I step through frame-by-frame I can see very noticeable movement.

[Douglas Kerr]

I’ve posted 2 examples of rendered clips. (file size 25MB)

https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=Y2o4UGhYTWNxRTJ4dnc9PQ

If anyone could tell me their opinion, that would be great..