PLEASE, PLEASE, HELP. (After Effects)

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:36 am

I've asked this everywhere but I didn't get any answer, so please, I'm truly desperate, help me, anyone.

I'm trying to import any type of clip into After Effects, now, for example, an Episode (any) of Full Metal Alchemist, 640x480 with 23,976 fps, receiving, continously, this error.

After Effects error: retrieving frame from video stream. (3)

( 53 :: 34)

Please, anyone can help me? I'm really desperate I don't know what can I do.

Hitori · Post by **Hitori** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:07 pm

How is the clip encoded? XviD, Uncompressed, Huffy?

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:11 pm

It seems to be Xvid, since because when I tried to disinstall it, trying a new import AE directly said that the codec was missing, so yes, Xvid.

I'm sorry to seem a little crazy but damn, I'm truly desperate, I really don't know why this happen everytime I have a deadline.

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:19 pm

It seems that the fault of all this is exactly Xvid.
It works if I use Huffyuv for the compression of the file but then.. A single anime episode become a monster of about 10GB, is there any other solution?

-GfN- · Post by **-GfN-** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 12:54 pm

Michele wrote:It seems that the fault of all this is exactly Xvid.
It works if I use Huffyuv for the compression of the file but then.. A single anime episode become a monster of about 10GB, is there any other solution?

course there is: I believe that adobe can make use of native avi synth editing.
since I'm not using adobe, better read that part of the guide:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... meth2.html

hope that helps,

Jannis Nätke alias -Good for Nothing-

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:12 pm

This isn't a hardware question. Your solution is frameserving with Avisynth, and if you had looked in the video software help section, where this belongs, you had probably found this sticky topic: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=57853

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:19 pm

Thanks for your help, but sadly, even using the Avisynth procedure, After Effects give to me the exactly same error.

[Mike of the Desert] · Post by **[Mike of the Desert]** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:20 pm

Keeper of Hellfire wrote:This isn't a hardware question. Your solution is frameserving with Avisynth, and if you had looked in the video software help section, where this belongs, you had probably found this sticky topic: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phpBB/v ... hp?t=57853

Ouch I know this is a Software Problem, I posted in the wrong section. ;\

*inverse* · Post by ***inverse*** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:25 pm

Michele wrote:It seems that the fault of all this is exactly Xvid.
It works if I use Huffyuv for the compression of the file but then.. A single anime episode become a monster of about 10GB, is there any other solution?

Have you tried just converting the clips you want to use? Do you really need the whole episode?

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 1:51 am

Can you open the fake-AVI that you made with VFAPI in VirtualDub(Mod)? Can you open the AviSynth script in VirtualDub(Mod)? You know that you have to make new fake-AVIs if you change the AVS script?