Newbie Question

[tufif]

I'm not really familiar with this issue, but of coarse the simple work around would be to set your scale to -100 to render it flipped, which should cause it to render normal? A 180 rotation would also do the trick.

[beenyweenies]

Hi Guys

Im running AE 6.5 at work we have it installed on 3 differnet machines (local install by the way)and when I render out to Cinepak codec the avi is coming in upside down and back to front any ideas...

Also I tried all the other codecs on the three seperate machines and getting the same result on cinepak, also the other codecs are causing render problems, would this be a reinstall?

Thanks for taking the time to look and hopefully answer a newbie question

L

First off, I would recommend everyone avoid Cinepak like the plague. There is simply no reason anyone should still be using this codec AT ALL! Cinepak is older than dirt and horribly inefficient, as in it consumes twice as much storage for the same quality. The primary codecs used in professional situations are Animation and Sorenson, because they are reliable, widespread and efficient.

As for your flipping issue, that is a serious problem. I haven't heard that one before, but it could be that your render settings are tweaked really bad. If you can't get this one solved easily (such as checking your comp and render settings) you may need to reinstall.

[VisualMonkey]

They might be set at -100%...
I'll just see if that's poss.
Nope...
Can't even reproduce it here, i tried.

[editormanish]

buddy dont use cinepak codecs at ALL. they are severly outdated.
the more professional codecs are Sorenson3 and mpeg-1, coz they are widespreadly used.
the flipping problem is quite strange. try re-installing the software.

[Mylenium]

I think the problem does not lie at the AE end of things. It sounds more like you have an incompatible CoDec version that expects its image buffer delivered in a different order (in CG, 99% of all image formats start at the top left corner). Other than that like the others already said: Get rid of Cinepak. Unless you need to play your files on a old Windows 3.1 thru Win NT 4.0 machine or a Mac pre-OS 7 (which seems very unlikely to me), there is no reason at all to hang on to it.

Mylenium

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