[Mike Moss]

Hi,

Thank you so much for your suggestion. Right as i was trying what you mentioned one of my other posts on Studiosysadmins.com was answered and resolved the issue. Here is the response of the other post for people to reference in case it happens to them as well…

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This may be a GPU-related bug in the Windows OCIO plug-in that I recently fixed. I just posted a new build to the blog page:

https://fnordware.blogspot.com/2012/05/opencolorio-for-after-effects.html

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Mike

[Mike Moss]

Looks like it was an issue with the AVI, codec or combination of the two that was rendered from Camtasia during the first go. Once i changed it to something more suitable, QT with Photo-Jpeg, it worked and imported just fine into AE. Funny thing is this was the “first” option i choose when exporting from Camtasia. The reason i changed it was because Camtasia kept crashing during the rendering process.

Either way, it worked this time. Thanks for helping me figure things out!

M

[Mike Moss]

Hi Dave,

Correct, the H.264 codec was more or less a test just to see if the full 10 min clip would import correctly. Which it did by the way. Like you said AE has problems with that, which it did also. A lot of frames where corrupted, missing, etc. Lots of blank (red / green) frames, etc.

Since my test did import fully, i am now trying to re-render another one from Camtasia; full res with the Photo-Jpeg codec. Lets see if that works…

🙂

Thanks again to Dave & everyone else in the thread!

M

[Mike Moss]

Update:

I cleaned the cache like the article instructions said to do. > imported the 10 minute clip > Got same result: 2min 52second clip imported.

However, the newly created .mov (H.264) just finished rendering in Camtasia. Imported it to AE and the whole 10 min. clip played! This was a lowered resolution version. I am going to try with the same settings again, but at the full resolution. Let’s see if that works…

Mike

[Mike Moss]

Hi guys,

thanks for all the suggestions. I just went through the camtasia process again, the settings i previously choose where .avi and the codec said “unknown”. I tried again with .avi and uncompressed frames – (codec was unknown).

The reason i was using avi, was because i orginally had .mov with H.264, but it crashed half way through the rendering process (in camtasia).

I am trying it again right now, same settings, but a slightly lower resolution to see if that actually works or not. While this is going i will take a look at the Media Cache that was mentioned above.

Thanks again for the suggestions, and with trial and error i am sure i will get it going and find what i did wrong/where the error is.

Mike

[Mike Moss]

Hi,

Thanks again! But already did that, the frame rate is the correct 30fps. …Just like it is supposed to be.

Mike

[Mike Moss]

Hi,

Thanks for responding, but i already know how to do that. 🙂 I been using AE for a couple years now. Let me re-pharse, maybe it will make more sense…

I have a video clip; it is 10 minutes long.

I create a new comp (by dragging said video to the new comp icon). The resulting comp is only 2min 52seconds (the length of the video clip that was imported).

My question:

Why is my 10 minute video clip only 3 minutes in AE?

Mike

[Mike Moss]

Ok, update…
I managed to convert to the right formats. (I used ImageMagick to convert the sequence to .mov then FFmpeg to take that .mov and convert it to Flash .flv) Just wrote a batch file that does the whole process.

But now i got another problem.

The images im using to test are 1920×1080 and they look great. But once Imagemagick gets ahold of them and converts to .mov they look horrible. HUGE pixelation, streaking, etc. I’ve tried using the -quality flag set to 100, not sure what else to do to make them look normal again. It looks as if its a monitor refresh problem.

Any ideas?

[Mike Moss]

Thanks, ill keep that in mind.
Although im PRETTY sure that i did not get one of those. But then again, i may not have noticed it.

Ill keep an eye out for it if i run into this problem again.

thanks. 🙂

[Mike Moss]

Nope, just a single machine.