after effects help

[jonathanyeewen]

hi i'm new to using after effects, and i was having some troubles working the program.

the one problem i'm having is with importing this one particular video that gives me the following error when i import it (although i can still view it, although i can't edit with it because every time i click on the timeline, it comes up with this error):

After effects error: retrieving frame from video stream (3)
( 53::34 )

i thought it may have been the frame rate. this video was encoded in 23.976fps. i succesfully (without error) imported a number of other videos, all encoded similarly in XVID, but at 24fps, so i thought of changing my vid to 24fps (using the abcAVItag editor in the AMVapp), but when i did so, the same error occured.

i'm thinking that perhaps it is the strange dimensions of the video i am using: 434x218, but then again the rest of the videos that i successfully imported were of similarly strange dimensions.

if someone could give me some help on this issue, it would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

[godix]

all encoded similarly in XVID

Have you cosidered all the benefits to huffyuv? It does your laundry, it cleans your car, it does the dishes, it has sex with the cat and licks you clean (or maybe those should be reversed, I forget), it defragments your HD, it kills spammers and telemarketers dead, and on top of all that it looks better than XVid and tends to not make Adobe products blow up. You should look into it, it's way cool.

[dokool]

all encoded similarly in XVID

Have you cosidered all the benefits to huffyuv? It does your laundry, it cleans your car, it does the dishes, it has sex with the cat and licks you clean (or maybe those should be reversed, I forget), it defragments your HD, it kills spammers and telemarketers dead, and on top of all that it looks better than XVid and tends to not make Adobe products blow up. You should look into it, it's way cool.

But then how would he use his downloaded fansubs to make mediocre amvs? Oh the humanity!

[Zarxrax]

But then how would he use his downloaded fansubs to make mediocre amvs? Oh the humanity!

The exact same way, only with bigger files

[dokool]

But then how would he use his downloaded fansubs to make mediocre amvs? Oh the humanity!

The exact same way, only with bigger files

And with fewer Premiere/AE crashes. I think there should be a 'Why Editing With Fansubs Doesn't Work' sticky that explains why xvid and divx cause Premiere to crap out so often...

[jonathanyeewen]

your cynicism appreciated, dokool, but all the amvs i've made so far have been with dvd sources and using huffyuv to import from premiere and then encoding into beautiful xvid

it's not premiere i'm new to, it's AE. u can't work with xvid or divx in premiere as far as i know. but i'm sure u all already knew that.

but if i encoded into huffuv for AE, my computer would lag real bad, becos it... sucks. i use the method up here on a-m-v.org to editing without loss of video quality, but using crappy preview vid to edit so that it's very fast, then at the end, replacing by frameserving with avisynth 2.5 with the dvd2avi stuff etcera.

would i be able to do the same thing for AE?

[dokool]

would i be able to do the same thing for AE?

Last time I heard, AE doesn't support AVISynth, so no, you wouldn't be able to frameserv. You might be able to do a direct bait-and-switch between the HuffYUV files and something like MJPEG, but you won't be able to drop .avs files into AE and have it work.

Although if you can drop HuffYUV into Premiere and have it work, I don't see why dropping it into AE would cause any more problems.