How to Render a TIFF image sequence with After Effects or Premiere

So I shot a timelapse in RAW using my D5200. Developed the images, imported into after effects to make a composition at 1080p 24fps, the clip is 15 seconds long. Then I rendered the clips a few ways and none of them are what I want:
I used the H.264 first, its just pixelated and blocky, doesn't retain a smooth resolution. H.264 output an MP4 that was 6.5 MB.
Then I tried lossless and it output an AVI which is awesome resolution but the file is 2 gigs! Not even VLC media player will play it smoothly without buffering.
Last I tried H.264 BluRay which output an M4V file which is 45 MB and I can't get it to play.
So now I'm here asking you all what the way to go is. When I download films, I will aim for a 1-2 gig 720p or 1080p file on roughly 2hr films. The resolution is great, the audio is great and the file like I said is only 1.5gigs average. So what are the rendering settings I should be using to get a file like this? Should I be importing it into Premiere Pro first or what?
-Thanks
Bruno
For Reference, here was my workflow:
I generally followed an Adorama Rich Harrington Time-Lapse youtube video on workflow which was:
Developed the Raw files in Camera Raw
Used the Image Processor to create the Tif files
Imported into After Effects as a TIF sequence
Interpreted the sequence as 24fps
Changed the Composition settings to 1080p 24fps
Then did the rendering as detailed above

1. You don't need to export your TIFF sequence so as to import it into After Effects, you can import RAW image sequence into After Effects directly. Camera RAW will start automatically on importing. What is more, you will be able to change your Camera RAW settings at any time you want inside your AE project: in Project panel select your RAW image sequence, right-click, choose Interpret Footage -> Main... In the dialog box click More Options... button (at bottom left), and Camera RAW opens.
2. Do NOT export to H.264 out of After Effects directly. If you need to export your composition to H.264, export it out of Adobe Media Encoder. Start from HDTV preset. If your goal is to upload your media file on e.g. YouTube, done. If you want to play it back on your computer, but your mediaplayer can't playback it in real time, start to decrease bitrate settings. Keep in mind that modern AVCHD cameras shoot with 28 Mbps, first AVCHD camcorders were shooting with 17 Mbps, YouTube preset in Adobe Media Encoder sets bitrate to 10 Mbps, Vimeo preset - to 8 Mbps.
Choose VBR, 2 Pass so as to benefit from better quality out of smaller file size.
See this The Video Road blogpost on Understanding Colour Processing and benefits of Render at Maximum Depth option.
3. If you're planning to use your After Effects composition in Premiere Pro project, you can use Adobe Dynamic Link. If your After Effects composition is quite complex, render a Digital Intermediate out of After Effects and import it into Premiere Pro. See this discissuon in AE Forum on some production codecs comparison.
P.S. See also this FAQ: What are the best export settings? entry.

Similar Messages

How to edit 16bit TIFF image sequence file in FCP?

Dear all,
I have a number of 16 bit TIFF image sequence files (2048 x 1024 resolution) - some of them are RED footage, and others came directly from our f/x guy. We are going into a color correction session in a post house and we've been asked to provide a sequential 16 bit TIFF image sequence of the edited time line.
I need to do a cross dissolve b/w most of the clips I have. I have created image sequence QT movie (reference files) from the TIFF images. Though they play fine in QT player, when I try importing into FCP, I am met with a "general error". I tried both dragging it into QT, as well as File --> Import.
I am wondering what can I do to get these clips into FCP in order to apply the cross dissolve transitions I need. Is this a problem relating to the 16bit nature of the TIFF files?
I tried exporting the TIFF image sequence standalone QT movie, and those imported fine. However, I have a feeling that the standalone movie conversion also decrease my bit depth from 16 to 8. (When I do my final TIFF output from FCP after dissolves / transitions had been applied, each TIFF file is now 8 MB instead of 12 MB, hence my suspicion that the bit depth is adjusted).
Are there any settings I am missing, or does FCP simply don't support 16 bit image sequence reference file. As a test, I had also converted all my TIFF to jpg, and created jpeg image sequence reference file. These reference QT file can be successfully imported to FCP and I can edit them as if they are a clip.
If FCP is not able to handle these files, what are my other options? After Effects?
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.
Michael
<Edited by Moderator>

As far as I know, both FCP and Color only support up to 10 bit color, which is 1024 levels for each color channel, more than enough for avoiding color banding.
If you need 16 bit for sure, I believe AE will support 16 bit output. Another 16 bit application would be the extended version of Photoshop, which has some limited time line capability.

Offline/Missing Image Sequences in After Effects CS6 with Color Bars

I am working on a stop motion animation in After Effects CS6. Each clip has been imported as an image sequence from stills on my hard drive. When I open up After Effects, all image sequences now have color bars over them, as if they are offline. Trying to reload them does nothing. I cannot 'link media' because it isn't just one file; it's an image sequence so there are many of them.
I first noticed this when the color bars appeared in my dynamically linked comps inside of Premiere Pro. Everything played smoothly the first time I opened the project in Premiere CS6, after originating in CS5.5. Then the second time I opened up Premiere, the color bars appeared on the linked comps. I hadn't yet opened up my AE project in CS6 yet, so when I did, AE converted the project and I resaved it.
Any help related to this issue would be greatly appreciated.
Mid-2009 Macbook Pro
Mac OS X Mountain Lion
8GB RAM
Adobe Creative Suite Production Premium CS6 w/Creative Cloud

Thanks everyone, I think I'm beginning to solve this.
Rick, thanks for your advice. I tried this and it worked. The reason I didn't do this before is that, because it is stop motion, I couldn't remember how many frames I had imported for each sequence. For instance, if I shot 54 images and only imported 52 into the sequence, I wouldn't remember which 52 images to import...this might still be causing a problem, but I don't know yet. I think in most cases I imported all the images in a folder, so the image sequences should be fine.
I am having another problem, however. Even though the issue seems to be fixed in AE, it doesn't seem to be fixed in Premiere...each image sequence is dynamically linked from AE, but each dynamically linked comp is still being show with color bars as they did in AE...I think that maybe my Premiere project is still linking to the old CS5.5 AE project, and not the new one opened and saved in CS6...

Render problems and fed up with after effects

Hi all,
I'm I the middle of trying to do a very simple pan and scan corporate video, the crux being its in stereoscopic 3D. First I've tried using cineform plug ins and have had numerous problems and basically don't think highly of their product. Since after effects has plug ins for stereoscopic I've moved to try and use them. All seems to be going alright for most of the footage. But I'm have some issues with a very import pant part of one video.
My set up
Mac 2x2.4 GHz Quad-core Intel Xeon
12GB of ram
Mac OSX 10.7.2
ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024MB
NVIDEA Quadro 4000 2048MB
After Effects CS5.5 (10.5.0.253)
630GB free on 1TB boot drive
1.8TB free on 3TB external drive 1
100GB free on 3TB external drive 2
My comp is 7 layers. Duration 1:46:00 output is Side by Side
Layer 1- animation with alpha clip. Opacity is keyframed to do a 'dissolve' at the beginning and end of the clip. TC in 53:11, out 1:05:01
Layer 2- comp. stereoscopic 3D. Made from using a camera and Create Stereo 3D Rig. It's a mask of the earth in space. 1:46:00
Layer 3- animation with alpha clip. Opactiy keyframed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp. TC in 1:25:09, out 1:45:10.
Layer 4- animation with alpha clip. Opacity key framed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp.TC in 1:03:2,' out 1:16:10.
Layer 5- animation with alpha clip. Opacity key framed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp.TC in 31:12, out 48:11.
Layer 6- animation with alpha clip. Opacity key framed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp.TC in 6:06, out 21:14.
Layer 7- animation codec clip. 1:46:00 duration.
Now when I attempt to render this out to a ProRes 422 file so that I can join it up with the other footage in Primeire Pro, I basically sit around for 2 hours and then I get a nice little dialog box stating "an output module failed. The file may be damaged or corrupted. (-1610153464).
This is maddening to say the least.
Other issues
After Effects basically is Pathetically slow in rendering out a ProRes or Animation or any type of mov file. A simple 30sec clip takes 1 hour 47 minutes. All the clip contains is a tiff left eye and right eye and the 3D glasses plug in. That's it. I know my system isn't the biggest out there (I bought what I could afford). But these render times are ludicrous. If I turn of the multiprocessing it doesn't help. I have the openGL turned on. That doesn't seems to do anything. I have it set up to use 10Gb of ram, yet the system says I'm only using 37% of my ram, none of my processors and I have no idea about the graphics card. Am I totally missing something about how after effects actually does rendering? I'm from the old school of Jaleo and Shake and Nuke. However I set out on my own as a freelancer and I can't really afford Nuke (besides I don't like that it doesn't have a timeline). So I purchased Adobe production premium thinking it can do the job I want, however it seems to act like a spoilt brat software. Yes im ranting had really having thoughts of buyers remorse.
If anyone out there has any advice or thoughts on how to get this to work I'd be more than grateful to hear from you.
Cheers
James

That doesn't seems to do anything. I have it set up to use 10Gb of ram, yet the system says I'm only using 37% of my ram,
AE only takes what it needs, as do any programs with dynamically managed memory. It's not cramming everything into RAM when it doesn't have to.
none of my processors
Secondary processors/ cores will only be used, if you enable the sad excuse that is the "Render multiple Frames simultanuously" feature. As Todd suggested, read that article on "optimum" settings. Just keep in mind that what works well for one project may not work at all for the next one when the balance of footage I/O vs. pixel processing vs. memory consumption changes. You're gonna learn to really hate this...
I have no idea about the graphics card
AE doesn't use it for the most part. Even if you enable all of the hardware acceleration features, AE may turn them off behind your back, one such condition being the use of MP rendering. Can't have both. Conversely, MP rendering might be turned off just the same, if specific effects or features are used. That's also expleianed in teh help. Your only chance of halfway benefiting from hardware acceleration is buying some third-party plug-ins that have their own implementations of OpenGL and CUDA. Still, since you use two different cards i nyour system, that may also be problematic...
Mylenium

How to load compressed tiff image formats with JIMI

this method
Image image=image = Jimi.getImage(imgResource);returns incorrect Image width & height (-1) for TIFF compressed formats.
is there any jimi example showing how to properly load the tiff compressed image ?
thanks.

Wild guess: how old is JIMI technology? Has it been
kept uptodate, or has
it been abandoned? And is LZW compression in TIFF
format a more recent feature?yes i checked jimi docs and here is what they say :
TIFF
* Bi-level / Greyscale / Palette / True Color images
* Uncompressed images
* CCITT compressed Bi-level images with CCITT RLE, CCITT Group 3 1D Fax, CCITT Group 3 2D Fax, CCITT Group 4 Fax, CCITT Class F Fax
* Packbits compressed images
* LZW Compressed images
* Tiled TIFF files
* Handles all values of Orientation
* TIFF / JPG compression variant
* any color space except RGB
* True Color images not of Red/Green/Blue format

How can i create a .mov file from image sequence with different durations

how do u create an image sequence with different durations? image one stays for 10 seconds and image two may stay for 30 and so on. each one has a custom duration. can this be done with an apple script or a text file saved as an mov file?

Hello Omar,
The example code Programmatic Printing of TestStand Reports - Modular contains a sequence that will convert an XML file to an HTML file given the XML file's path and the path to the stylesheet. It may need to be altered to fit with the modifications you have already made to the report generation routines, but I think it should definitely get you off on the right foot. Let me know if you have any questions!
NickB
National Intruments

How to export image sequence with a specific number

Hello
I'm looking how, like in after, I can export an image sequence with a starting specific number. I spend hours to rename images with Renamer, boring, stupid!
Thank you for helping
Alex

Use Bridge. You can do them all at once with Batch Rename.

How to name image sequences with the convention "name.[####].extention"?

Quicktime doesn't seem to respond to the naming convention used in other programs like After Effect or Combustion for naming image sequences when you are exporting the sequence. It does let you put a space before the sequential numbering but this is no good for using image sequences in Maya for example. During the save prompt if we were to save the image sequence as AppleMovie.[####].jpg in these programs we would yield an image sequence with AppleMovie.0001.jpg, AppleMovie.0002.jpg, AppleMovie.0003.jpg, etc. Anyone know if there is a way to do this as I've described?

Open ExtendScript Toolkit this can be found here:-
PC: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Utilities
MAC: <hard drive>/Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities
Copy and paste the code into a new window and then save the code to:-
PC: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS#\Presets\Scripts
Mac:- [hard drive]/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS#/Presets/Scripts/
If photoshop was open, close and re-start it so that Photoshop can pick up the new script.
Now you can create an action to run the script and do your save so that this action can be batched.
To add the script to your action:
File - Scripts - select the script (this will add the new layer)

Is the tiff image sequence in premiere pro cs4 lossless?

is the tiff image sequence export in premiere pro cs4 lossless or lossy?

Hi,
Yeah, that IS an interesting question...When I looked into the quality exported individual frames I stuck it into photoshop and looked at the mode and image size to see what I was getting ...
I was kinda ( am still very ) impressed with the quality of the individual images Premiere exports in it's sequences.. and I suppose you could say it is lossless but in part that would be referenced to , " Lossless compared to what ? "
If I put TIFF images into the timeline to begin with and then got them out again, then it would probably be lossy depending on ppi going in. It's like 72 coming out.
But anyway, the quality is pretty darn good, I have to say...when you export TIFs...
Rod

File Out Tiff Image Sequence

Hello! Can anyone recommend/explain the correct settings in the File Out node to output a TIFF Image Sequence?
Thanks!

Wow, I just figured out the Shake problem. First off you are right, my "black background" is an alpha mask. But why is it there?!? It is a "bug" in Shake:
FileOut - Quicktime Movie - Animation - Options - Compression Settings - "MillionsofColors" - Okay
Now, when I reopen the FileOut node to double check my Compression Settings, it has defaulted BACK to "MillionsofColors+" So yeah, "MillionsofColors" should result in an alpha-free export BUT SHAKE WILL NOT RETAIN A SELECTION OF ANYTHING OTHER THAN "MillionsofColors+" I tried setting it to "Black and White," "ThousandsofColors" - same issue - the export still has an alpha because Shake took the Compression Setting back to "MillionsofColors+"
So thanks for all your help on this, I'm glad your system is not operating with this quirk.
I'm pretty sure I hate Shake.

How to i add an image path with spry data set

hi
how to i add an image path with spry data set. I made a xml file and then created a data set in html but image won't load
this is my XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<banner width = "185" height = "400">
    <item>
        <image scr = "nui-panforte-recipe_01.jpg" ></image>
        <description>CHOC-COCONUT PANFORTE</description>
        <text1>Try this delicious GLUTEN FREE Christmas treat</text1>
        <text2>CHOC-COCONUT PANFORTE</text2>
    </item>
</banner>
this is my HTML
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:spry="http://ns.adobe.com/spry">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script src="../../SpryAssets/xpath.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../SpryAssets/SpryData.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
<div spry:region="ds1">
<table>
    <tr spry:repeat="ds1">
      <td>{image}</td>
      <td>{description}</td>
      <td>{text1}</td>
      <td>{text2}</td>
      <td>{text3}</td>
      <td>{text4}</td>
      <td>{link}</td>
      <td>{url}</td>
      <td>{target}</td>
    </tr>
</table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

It would be helpfull if you actually created an <img> tag to start with
<img src="{image/@src}" />
would work.

How can I process Raw Images taken with a Nikon D7000 in PS4 Extended?

How can I process Raw Images taken with a Nikon D7000 in PSE Extended?

Hi there
Unfortunately, CS4 does not support the Nikon D7000. You'll have to download the Adobe DNG converter (links below) to process RAW files from your camera.
DNG converter 6.3 - Mac
DNG converter 6.3 - Windows
Here are some answers to similar questions asked over in the Photoshop General discussion:
If you need further information on this topic, please feel free to post in the Photoshop General Discussion or in the Camera Raw forum.
Camera Raw | Supported cameras
Camera Raw | compatible applications
Cheers,
Kendall

About convert to mov from TGA or TIFF image sequence

Hi, When I try to convert TGA or TIFF image sequence to Apple Pro Res 422, just like below video,
http://www.apple.com/jp/finalcutserver/features/cataloging.html#overlay-image-se quences
an error message appear and failed to convert.
Upload Failed Unable to open QuickTime movie - /var/tmp/fcsvr_ldsd.2872/task_copy_cashed_upload_COedHv : The file is not a movie file.
any advice please. thankyou.

Convert in QTPro Player 7 first.

Images sequence with png problem

I created an image sequence with png files for transparency reasons. When I activate the interactivity, the original placed image shows behind the image sequence as i interact with it. Anyway to get this to go away other than hiding the intial image?

nope. Transparency isn't well supported in image sequences.
—Johannes

How to undo the "replace with after effects composition" command?

Hi,
I don't know if there is a better way, but i make my color corection in after effects with Color Finesse and i use this command: right click on clip and "replace with after effects composition" - that a good way but, the problem is when i wanna to undo this and to bring back my old clip from an AE Composition.
this is how my clip looks beforee
and after
it works fi i use "undo" command, but after i save the project, and restart premiere, that command is gone.
my question: what can I do to bring back my old video?
thanks.

You can try to go to one of the autosave versions and see if you can bring it back that way (if the history is cleared)...
Seems a little extreme
If you still have the original source audio in your sequence, as your example shows, park the CTI at the beginning of clip instance and target just the audio track (i.e. deselect the video track). Hit the M key to match frame the original master clip, hit I to mark an in point, and then hold down the Alt key and drag the Video Only button from the Source Monitor to the AE comp item. The AE comp will be replaced with the original video and linked to the audio.
The upshot of all this is that, unless you make a duplicate before using the "Replace" command or undo immediately after doing so, there is no direct way to get back to the original footage.

How to Render a TIFF image sequence with After Effects or Premiere

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for