Mark Ramsey
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I’ll get those specifics tonight when I get home from work…but I’m not sure that the format of the clips is so much the problem here, since it’s freezing up before I even get to select a clip at all. I click “import” and the moment I click the word “file” it freezes up completely…never even gets to where I can select a file to import in the first place.
Like I said, it was working just fine up until recently…just early last month I did a couple of effects clips that turned out great, using the same camera (although I did still have to convert the clips in Windows Movie Maker first) and I had absolutely no problems at all. Just a couple of weeks ago, in fact, I was working on a clip for a friend of mine who wanted me to add a trail of fire behind his snowboard as he went past the camera…that turns out good too. But just over the past few days I haven’t been able to get it to do anything, and it’s really getting frustrating. Just spent some of my income tax refund money to get a nice large green screen, too. *lol*
Oh, and someone once suggested that I “drag & drop” a clip in, so I tried that…instantly got an “After Effects has crashed” message…so I gave up on that idea. -
Well, I have been using the same camera for awhile now…it’s always worked just fine…however, I HAVE noticed lately that I have to convert it into a different format first…I’ve gotten into the habit of opening the clip in Movie Maker first, and saving it as a different format…then I open THAT in AE…I can’t remember having to do that before…and I’m sure I haven’t accidently changed any of the settings in the camera itself, though I do have a 6-year old daughter who has gotten her hands on it from time to time. *lol* What format would you suggest I set it to? By the way, in case it matters, it’s a Canon PowerShot SX110IS.
Maybe, just because I’m curious about this, I might try a clip filmed with my OLD camera..see if it freezes up then. -
Actually, I’m going to try something out tonight…I have a single flame keyed out as well as the wall of flames…I’m going to just attach the single flame, duplicate it, attach it just a few frames later, etc…resizing some of the flames as the snowboarder gets closer to the camera…then of course I’ll have to attach motion tracking to them all as the camera bounces and pans around. I’ll let ya’ll know how it turns out…and if I have any further problems, I’ll give ya’ll a shout out about them, too. *lol*