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Patrick Saad
December 28, 2008 at 6:15 pm in reply to: After Effects CS3 Freeze frame problem

Hi Dave,

I tried compressing all the h.264 movies to a LG quicktime format using sorenson squeeze but with no chances of success.

Whats weird is that upon scrubbing through the time line and looking at the preview window, the freeze frame gradually occurs. That is, its not so much of a problem when i first start scrubbing(less frames frozen) but as I go through it over and over again, more frames start freezing all over the time line.

Its as if im running out of memory. but when looking at the activity monitor on my mac I can see that i have lots of free memory lying around. I have 2GB of RAM and I was running no other application at that time except Google desktop.

any clues?
Thanks.
Pat S.
Patrick Saad
December 27, 2008 at 8:05 pm in reply to: After Effects CS3 Freeze frame problem

Hello Dave,

Thanks for your feedback… I was actually going to do just that, and recompress the footage that i downloaded from quicktime.

Do you have any compression settings you could suggest (using sorenson squeeze for example) to maintain the quality yet have a suitable format for editing in AE?

I will get back to you if that solved the problem.

Merci.
Pat S.
Patrick Saad
December 25, 2008 at 7:22 pm in reply to: After Effects CS3 Freeze frame problem

It could be, but my hard drive is a LaCie 1TB Big Disk with Firewire 800 connected… could it be that its because its almost full, ( i have about 50GB left on it) ?

I will give it a try and get back with the results.

Thanks for your support Jack.

Pat S.
Patrick Saad
June 18, 2008 at 1:04 pm in reply to: how to remove dark edges around subject after keying in After Effects

Hi Maciej,

You’re not too late, I didn’t get a chance to work on this issue yet. I will be giving your technique a try and bring you back feedback.

Thank you for your time.

Best Regards,
Patrick Saad
Patrick Saad
May 23, 2008 at 7:52 pm in reply to: Sorenson Squeeze compression causes sound to be not in sync with video

It seems the problem lies with Sorenson Squeeze 4.5.3…as I said earlier, the out of sync problem does not occur in Sorenson Squeeze 5(trial version)

I found a version of Adobe CS3 Flash Encoder and used it to compress it to 700kbs OnVP6 and it worked like a charm
Patrick Saad
May 23, 2008 at 6:59 pm in reply to: Sorenson Squeeze compression causes sound to be not in sync with video

Hi Robin,

Thanks for your prompt reply.

I tried disabling the drop frame feature and I still have the same issue.

The following user had a similar issue as mine and it seems as if he couldn’t fix it with Sorenson Squeeze, and instead used Flash video encoder… i really need to use sorenson squeeze since i don’t have Adobe Flash encoder.
https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/20/858764

Someone suggested I increase the datarate(bitrate) but that didn’t solve the problem.

I am using Sorenson squeeze for mac v.4.5.3

I tried it with the latest sorenson squeeze version (trial version) with the same settings and it doesn’t cause out of sync problem. That leaves me to wonder if this is a bug from the 4.5.3 version that was fixed in later versions.

Anyone has a any idea of such bug/issue with sorenson squeeze ?

Thanks.

Pat S.