importing render passes folder structure

[Mylenium]

Umm, how do you import them? Not each and every single image, I hope? You can easily import hundreds of sequences by simply enabling the "XXX Sequence" import option in the import dialog and selecting any file in the sequence. AE will do the rest and load the frames when needed. Otherwise you tell AE to treat every image as a still and naturally force it to load every single image.

Mylenium

[fjalar]

It came in like that the first time. But even when I imported in as a sequnce opition, I find it to be very slow. Maybe it is because I am working over a network.
Other thing I find bad in AE is how over all importing is done. I like AE, but Adobe got to look seriously into how to make this better. I worked with combustion some years back and I found it to have much better overview system for importing files.

[Mylenium]

Other thing I find bad in AE is how over all importing is done. I like AE, but Adobe got to look seriously into how to make this better. I worked with combustion some years back and I found it to have much better overview system for importing files.

But then again, combustion* is also made by Autodesk, is it not? One wouldn't expect anything else than they optimize the hell out of it to work with files generated by their 3D programs... Beyond that it's very much a matter of the file format you work with. AE works just fine with TIFFs and other formats, it just doesn't particularly like RPF, Autodesk PSDs, EXR and a few other things. If you will, it's a matter of the blind leading the blind - Autodesk reverse-engineers the Photoshop stuff and Adobe do the same for RPF and neither of them gets it right (outside their own "pipeline"). For OpenEXR you can improve matters by using the alternative I/O plugin from FNord. It's noticable faster and has the advantage of not screwing your Gamma. The rest is subject to personal taste. Whether one really needs the infinite options for arranging sequences already upon import as you can do in combustion* could lead to endless discussions. The only thing I would like to see added are some options for handling missing frames and perhaps some prefab scripts that provide stuctured folder imports (similar to the already included Smart import script, but better tailored to the specific programs)...

Mylenium

[fjalar]

It can not be hard for adobe to make viewing of sequence in the import window to show as one icon and make so that one can skim through the frames. I think also that most users of After Effects do work more and more closely with 3D.

[Mylenium]

It can not be hard for adobe to make viewing of sequence in the import window to show as one icon and make so that one can skim through the frames.

Umm, sorry, but that's BS and rather one-sided. Not only would you have to code the file dialog so it constantly redraws, but also find ways to deal with non-conformed media, on-the fly color profile conversion, bit-depth handling and whatnot. And lest we forget: Your filer dialog with previews is Bridge, no matter how little users like you and me may like and want to use that monster of a file browser...


I think also that most users of After Effects do work more and more closely with 3D.

They certainly will, especially with CS4... ;-)

Mylenium

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