Steve Roberts
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You probably rendered to a very high quality and large size. Nice, but your computer’s drive is probably too slow to play it back smoothly.
High-quality files are meant for transfer of files between applications for further processing. For smooth playback, you need to compress the files to get a smaller file size and thus lower data rate.
What is your final deliverable?
Who is it for?
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In AE, you don’t export a comp, you import the project that contains it. Import the entire AEP file, then delete everything from that but the comp you want.
(note: the two projects are not linked after import)
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Search the Help for “motion tracking” and “corner pin”. Alternately, you could use Mocha for AE, which I prefer.
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It can be resized, but it won’t look better.
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Ahem.
Either the client was told this was shot in HD (a lie) or the client thinks that 24p SD is actually HD, or the HD footage was converted to SD along the way. Maybe the editor was his nephew, I don’t know. You need to talk to the FCP editor to get to the bottom of this. If the client won’t let you do that, I don’t think you want to audition for any work for this person.
Bottom line: in any job, if there are issues with something you’ve been given, you must talk to the technical person in the chain. It’s your responsibility as a professional, and it’s the client’s responsibility to allow you access so you can do your job right.
Tip: To see if a 29.97 video is 24p or not, hold down Alt and double-click on it to open it in AE. Use the PageDn key to step through it. If it shows a weird “lines-no lines-lines-lines- no lines” cadence, then it’s 24p that has had pulldown added. Check the help on Removing Pulldown to revert the clip back to 24p, then drag that clip onto the new comp button to make a 24p comp and go to work. It won’t make the clip HD, but it will revert it to 24p if pulldown was added in-camera.
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Do you have a still of the footage (and plate) to show us?
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Yeah, that’s right.
You could try it with the card dance effect, by making the mosaic in a comp first, then dragging that comp into another comp, then applying card dance there. You have to tweak the settings, but that’s about it. But the comp often needs to be huge, depending on how big you want to see some of the photos. You might pick a few photos to be well-seen, then add them outside of the Card Dance layer and manually animate them into position.
… or you could do the search for tutorials by those wiser than I. Am.
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… or you could precomp the offending layers, then time-stretch the precomp in the main comp by using the stretch column (like Modes or Parent) in the timeline.
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By the way, it’s not normal.
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Yes, it was clear from your first detailed post that you’re familiar with the basics of AE.
Look man, if you want help, give a more detailed explanation: under what circumstances does this slowdown happen? Has it always happened for you? When doesn’t it happen? How are you playing audio? Spacebar? RAM preview? What kind of audio sources are you using? How does the audio relate to the video? Same speed or not? Are you using an external playback device such as a KONA or Decklink card?
Now. Are you ready to work with the people supplying free help here?