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Pretorian
07-17-2004, 05:10 AM
Hi!

I don't know exactly how to explain my problem because english is not my first language, but I will try. Hope you understand...

When you render a scene in Maya you have the option to render the animation in an image sequence, so, the files are IMAGE.001.JPG, IMAGE.002.JPG, IMAGE.003.JPG, end so on. Then, to make this sequence as a movie (and to compress it) you can import the sequence in Combustion, but, when you choose to import he looks the sequence image as one file, IMAGE.###.JPG and import to the composition already as a movie, you just hit play and it works like a movie. How can I do the same thing in After Effects?

I tryed to do this, I imported all the files at the same time but he doesn't put them all together in "one file", he imports them one by one, so, if I have 300 images he put there 300 images, 300 layers.

How can I do like in Combustion, so he can put one image after the other, as a sequence to be a movie, like each image as a frame?

Hope you can understand what I mean.




Thanks for all help!
webster
07-18-2004, 12:47 AM
AfterFX doesnīt display a sequence in one File like Combustion does. Thatīs a very asked feature for future versions of AFX. But when You click "File --> Import" You can pick a file (doesnīt have to be the first one, just of a sequence) Thereīs a little checkbox a the lower left side of Your import-dialog-window "import as sequence" or something similar. Check it on before You hit "Import"-Button, and there you have your animation.
Pretorian
07-20-2004, 03:32 PM
Hi!

I have tryed to make what you said and it works! Thanks a lot! I guess that this way is better then Combustion, because you can choose if you want to import one file or the entire sequence.


Thanks
Sky_Chris
08-08-2004, 04:07 AM
Same thing in combustion... just uncheck "collapsed" in the import window and it will uncollapse image sequences so you can pick still images.
When importing image sequences in AFX make sure they match the compositions frame rate before you start doing anything with it. You can change it either by defining the frame rate upon import or later by interpret "footage-> main"
Pretorian
08-10-2004, 06:43 PM
Hi Chris!

I couldn't understand exactly what you mean. I tried to follow what you said but couldn't make it. Can you be more especific where thouse options and funcionts are? :)




Best regards
Kargokultti
08-18-2004, 12:43 PM
You know the window that opens when you click File -> Import -> File? There is a small checkbox in the lower right corner of the window. It's inactive at first, but when you browse for your image sequence and then choose any image file in the folder, the checkbox will become active, and it'll say something like "Import as jpg-sequence". Click the checkbox and then click Open.


There may be a weird glitch with AFX 6.5 Standard when working with image sequences. I drew this prancing television animation which I tried to import to AFX. It imported alright, but there were frames missing, which played merry hell with my 8 frame run cycle. Has anyone else had this problem?
Kargokultti
08-30-2004, 09:19 PM
No weird glitch, just too much stupidity in one head: AE imports the sequence as 30 fps (inconvenient when the comp is 25 fps) unless I do something about it.
Tuqui-tuqui
08-30-2004, 11:42 PM
You always set your FPS before starting a project :) so it really should not be a problem
Kargokultti
09-03-2004, 08:41 AM
Well, I'm not that stupid: I had 25 fps in my project and comp settings. Seems to me that AE just assumes it's 30 fps regardless of the other settings, a feature I'd call a glitch unless I was certain there was some greater wisdom to be fathomed from this all.
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