[Mika1976]

Thanks for your awesome post and advice!

It’s a six minute audio animation and you are right, I will try to replace it in after effects and render it out into “lossless” with the adobe media encoder…
about sorenson: I did some testing, and call me crazy: the result was always better!! maybe my media encoder setting were wrong…

but!
I did these quicktime replace steps and I really like the results:
– I compared the video mp4 in after effects and there was no artifacts or whatsoever…
– the replaced audio was AAC 320kb 48Hz 16bit: same here…

I think that is a quick work around with no negative outcome 🙂

[Mika1976]

is there a way to replace just the audio in a mp4 video with premiere or after effect without rendering?
that’s the beauty of the quicktime pro process, or am I wrong? I don’t have to render/just any new codec/compression!!

I can clearly import the lossless .mov file into after effects, turn off the audio, add the new one…
but then I have to render again through the media encoder for losless mov and then compress it again with sorenson to youtube compatible mp4 file…

can someone else confirm that I don’t loose quality with this process?

I’m loading the two mp4 (old and new with replaced audio) inot after effects and I’m looking for artifacts…

Thanks for sharing your experience!
Mika

[Mika1976]

yes thanks, i see the align panel… but none of the align/distribute-symbols work like the space-align-symbol in flash or fireworks!
or did i miss something…

[Mika1976]

okay… thanks… but is it really that better than the internal ae-cs3-flv-decompressor???

[Mika1976]

hi dan, thanks for your link… wow, a lot of of great expressions… i’m looking forward to use them 😉

but:
the problem i have doesn’t concern the wiggle() expression…
“wiggle path” is a animation, you can add to a shape-layer in after effects cs3… and it doesn’t loop smoothly… or is there a hidden way to do it???

ah, i could pre-compose it… reverse it and add it to the original… it’s just a try…

best wishes, mika

[Mika1976]

yes thanks… this tutorial is great… but:

in fact i’ve had a problem in illustrator… if i want to create an outline from a artistic brush stroke, it doesn’t work…
mmmh…

cheers, mika

[Mika1976]

oh gosh… thank you so much… some times it’s so easy 😉

but one thing: when i scale the path (in this case a letter) up, it’s getting blurred… i thought the advantage of paths is that you can scale it without any distortion???

if this is a bug, and let’s say i have created a logo in illustrator, do i have to scale it up in illustrator, paste in after effects, scale it down there… so for the possibility, i have to sclae it up in future, there is no distortion… ???

mmhh, is this a way, you do it too? what is the professional solution?

best wishes, mika

[Mika1976]

oh gosh… thank you so much… some times it’s so easy 😉

but one thing: when i scale the path (in this case a letter) up, it’s getting blurred… i thought the advantage of paths is that you can scale it without any distortion???

if this is a bug, and let’s say i have created a logo in illustrator, do i have to scale it up in illustrator, paste in after effects, scale it down there… so for the possibility, i have to sclae it up in future, there is no distortion… ???

mmhh, is this a way, you do it too? what is the professional solution?

best wishes, mika