SOLUTION to find Missing Frames in an Image Sequence

Here's blog post about how to find exactly which frames are missing in an image sequence. Since AE only says that you have x number of frames missing and if your sequence is 1000s of frames it is quite tedious to try to locate them.
http://fredross.kinja.com/find-missing-frames-in-image-sequences-511138845

After Effects CC (12.0) has this feature built in.
http://blogs.adobe.com/aftereffects/2013/04/whats-new-changed-after-effects-next.html

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I have a 900 frame comp rendered to a numbered image sequence.
After applying a revision to frames 250-300, I would like to render
only those frames, overwriting the originals.
I have tried:
Under >Render Settings, "Work Area Only", with "Skip existing files" off.
This renders the correct frames as designated by the Work Area Bar,
but the frame numbering begins at 1 instead of 250.
Under >Render Settings, "Custom", with "Skip existing files" off.
In the Custom fields, I specify frames 250-300.
This renders the correct frames as designated by the Custom setting,
but the frame numbering still begins at 1 instead of 250.
Using both of the above settings, I have also tried to "force" a start frame
in the Output Module by manually entering "filename_[00250]".
The result is a new 51 frame sequence starting with "filename_[00250]_00001".
How can I get a partial render to overwrite the correctly
numbered original frames in an image sequence?

I have figured out what I was doing wrong.
I turns out that you can indeed force a start frame
number in the Output Module, but I was using it incorrectly.
Instead of having "Use Comp Frame Number" checked,
I had specified a starting frame number (1 - the first frame of comp).
The result is that regardless of what specified segment I rendered,
the output frames always were numbered starting with frame 1.
After checking "Use Comp Frame Number", problem solved.
Thanks for the input in helping me track down my error.

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What is this BSD Name: disk0s1 for that occupy 209.7MB?
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First, empty your trash.
Open Finder, Click the Apple Logo > About This Mac > More Info.. > Storage
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Changing Frame Padding On Image Sequence Exports, Media Encoder

Hello Adobe World,
I am using dynamic link from After Effects to Media Encoder and I am trying to export an image sequence with a specific numbering system for input into software code. Is there any way to change the frame padding or change the numbering system for Image sequence exports?
We are trying to speed up our workflow by Batch rendering from AME. AE does let us set our frame numbering and gives us an option for creating sub-folders (it's surprising the AE is much more organized in it's export options that AME). We need to be able to render more than one thing at a time and need to keep working in AE while the files are rendering. I have not found a workable background rendering plug-in for CC14. We could use AME if there is a way to fix the Number system. We are working on a PC Windows 8. I can provide more system specs if it is necessary.
Side note: in AE we can use [#] to set the numbering value and in AME it does not work.
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Still looking for an answer on this.... it's been 2 months.... Adobe team? Anyone?

Change it to this?

Can not find root frame.

Hi,
I need to create a dialog in my applet application which will show some info if certain mouse events are performed on applet.
This dialog needs to be on top of the applet. So I have set it's parent frame from method below.
I pass applet as a argument to the method.
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using JOptionPane.getFrameForComponent also doesn't solve the issue.
can anybody please give me solution to find root frame in safar.?

If your only need is to show dialog in front, u do not need
to search for frame: u can simply attach a WindowListener to
your dialog and in windowActivated method u can invoke toFront()
Note that under Windows OS also dialog that has a parent
Frame in some situations stays in back; for example:
with your dialog shown in front of your frame
1) Click in window's taskbar a button of another application to show
it, (outlook, for example)
2) Click in windows taskbar your Frame button to show it
3) Note that your dialog statys back
The only way for user to replace it in front is using Ctrl + TAB key;
the only way that I found to solve this problem is using a singleton
that stores my visible window's pointer and invokes for toFront()
method.
Hope this help
Regards

Converting 180 imported images in AE CC to image sequences that reside in same folder as stills.

I have 180 imported stills in a composition. I have corresponding image sequences that I want to convert each still to. The stills are named "x-00001.jpg", and the other parts of the image sequence are in the same directory. How do I get AE CC to make the leap to find the rest of each image sequence aside from manually using "Replace Footage" with each image to check the image sequence box?

Your workflow is flawed when you put your placeholder images and your image sequences in the same folder. Each image sequence should be in a separate folder and should be imported as an image sequence. The frame rate of the imported image sequences is set in Preferences before an image sequence is imported or changed with File>Interpret Footage.
If your placeholder is a still image and you have an image sequence in a different folder you can use the Replace Footage command and it will bring replace a still with an image sequence if you make sure to check the image sequence button before you press Open.
You can also convert your image sequences to Movies using QuickTime and easily wrap them in a .mov container. This eliminates the necessity of checking the image sequence box when replacing footage.
Writing a script to do this would require that you either pause the script to choose the folder with the image sequence or that you script every folder and the placeholder so it would be easier just to go through the composition and replace footage.

How can I force update image sequences?

I am using Premiere to composite various image sequences from a 3D program, Blender. Many times I export a draft version from Blender, import the sequence to Premiere, place it in the time line, then I find that I want to make some changes in Blender and re-render some of the frames. Of the frames that I re-render, Premiere only updates some of them.
I did a test where I re-rendered a section with a different background color to the scene. In Premiere it updated the first three frames, then the fourth was the old image, 5th and 6th were new, 7th was old, 8th and 9th were new, and so on. It did this for the entire updated image sequence, using a combination of old and new frames.
I did the above test three times. The first time I saw mixed frames, the second time everything imported fine, the third time I got the mixed frames again.
If I restart premiere, then it goes through the "media pending" screen for all of my media and it then shows the correct updated frames, but that would be inconvenient to have to restart premiere every time I want to see my new frames.
I am using Premiere Pro CS5.0.3, on a 2.66 Ghz Quad-Core Mac Pro with 8GB of RAM. The files are located on an eSATA RAID 5 array.
Is there a way I can force Premiere to update the frames in the image sequences?
Does anyone else have these problems? What do you do when dealing with many image sequences that you update frequently?
Thanks for any help.

Is there a way I can force Premiere to update the frames in the image sequences?
Three choices.
1. Don't leave Premiere open while rendering in another
application (this is what I do).
Overwritten files will update when you launch Premiere.
2. Right-click your image sequence in the Project window,
select "Make Offline...>Media Files Remain on Disk>OK.
Then, right-click your image sequence in the Project window,
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Image sequence only opens 1 image in QT pro

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I have 1500 numbered jpeg images and every time i go to do an image sequence it only adds the first frame into the image sequence!! Help!!!

I think in some cases OS 10.6.x does not allow to select more than 1 file. In QT Pro I also cannot make image sequences anymore, however MPEG Streamclip does the job (open files, select all files in the pulldown menu).

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I can successfully export sequences via Final Cut Pro using Quicktime conversion as .PNG Image Sequences retaining the alpha channel (millions+). However in Compressor the Image Sequence settings seem to ONLY support targa or tiff, IS there a way to export the image sequence using compressor as a alpha channel PNG!
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Sorry, but I have not been able to find an option for exporting image sequences with Alpha channel in Compressor either. I submitted a bug report about this a few months ago.
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Exporting a movie as an image sequence... cropped?

I've created a short sequence (4 seconds) in iMovie '09 that I am trying to export as an image sequence for insertion into a stop motion animation I'm creating with QuickTime Pro. The movie segment has been created with an aspect ration of 3:2 from TIFF images that are 1620 x 1080.
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As an aside, you'd think I could just paste the movie exported from iMovie into my animation sequence in QuickTime Pro, but I get a video glitch at the point that the iMovie originated sequence begins.
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Thanks!
John

I would have them all unchecked, you could use Best, but I'm not too sure if that would slow up the export with unnecessary processing.
Also check your project settings match your original codec.
QT would do the job too.
Peter

PICT Image Sequence

Hi,
Trying to find out what causes pict image sequences (standard def dv) to render slow and appear on screen even slower. Is there anything that I can do to convert these into footage that will play or anything else I can try? Some images have an alpha while other do not. All of image sequences of this type are slowing my system down considerably.

>pict image
What pixel x pixel size?
I don't know the pict format... what happens if you convert to a different format?

CS4; detecting correct FPS when importing an image sequence

Here's the problem: I'm rendering a sequence in a serie of targa images at 24 fps in 3dsmax. When importing into premiere pro it always sets it to 29.97 fps. I can use the interpret footage to change it back to 24 fps, but when you have multiple videos everyday it quickly becomes a time waster.
Is there a way to do it automatically?
Thanks,

Because Premiere changed from having Project Settings in CS3 to Sequence Settings in CS4 and because there is no setting to set the default frame rate for image sequences, there is simply no way to do what you want.
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It seems Adobe forgot about users who use image sequences on a regular basis.

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In my old Final Cut Express I was able to choose 1 or 2 frames per second, which was just right.
What am I missing?
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Why would Apple even have an image sequence export if it only allows you to export every frame, or it that only in the trial version?
Thank you

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In FCPX create your movie. Then SHARE as a Master File.
Get MPEG Streamclip, which is a free app available here.
http://www.squared5.com/svideo/mpeg-streamclip-mac.html
Drag your Master File into MPEG Streamclip.
In MPEG Streamclip, select FILE/EXPORT TO OTHER FORMATS.
In FORMAT: choose IMAGE SEQUENCE
In OPTIONS, choose your frame rate.

JS CS3 How can I find -and delete- anchored empty images frames

I have a script that works fine with text,
I need the same function, but find and remove anchored empty image frames
thx
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I'd do it this way:
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Dave

Asset problem: Folder is missing or contains no images.

Hello,
I have created a DPS project using InDesign CS5.5 -- the project is almost completed and everything has been working fine. I needed to update a bit of text and when I attempted to update the folio the update failed giving me a missing asset message. I looked in the links panel and it showed no missing assets. In this particlular file there is an audio .mp3 with a simple play and pause control that I had specified in the Audio/Video pane of the Overlay Creator. This has been working flawlessly. Now it is giving me an error message. None of my assets have been moved. But just to be sure I browsed to the folder where these assets have been stored (Audio_Controller/play.png Audio_Controller/pause.png) and indeed they are still there. Yet I continue to get the Yellow triangle with an ! in it and the following message: "The folder is either missing or contains no images. Resolve by selecting a folder containing supported assets."
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