Avchd in After Effects?

[SodR]

Hi,

I got Adobe After Effects CS3 and a Sony HDR-Cx105 handycam that puts out video in the avchd format (.mts/.m2ts). Is there any plug-in or anything similar that will make my files loadable directly in After Effects?

Thanks in advance!

[edDV]

Hi,

I got Adobe After Effects CS3 and a Sony HDR-Cx105 handycam that puts out video in the avchd format (.mts/.m2ts). Is there any plug-in or anything similar that will make my files loadable directly in After Effects?

Thanks in advance!

You need to convert AVCHD to a format AfterEffects can import.

[SodR]

Hi,

I got Adobe After Effects CS3 and a Sony HDR-Cx105 handycam that puts out video in the avchd format (.mts/.m2ts). Is there any plug-in or anything similar that will make my files loadable directly in After Effects?

Thanks in advance!

You need to convert AVCHD to a format AfterEffects can import.

All right, anyway I can do that without quality loss? I tried TMPGenc XPress but I get strange "lines" when the video "sweeps" horizontaly...

[edDV]

Hi,

I got Adobe After Effects CS3 and a Sony HDR-Cx105 handycam that puts out video in the avchd format (.mts/.m2ts). Is there any plug-in or anything similar that will make my files loadable directly in After Effects?

Thanks in advance!

You need to convert AVCHD to a format AfterEffects can import.

All right, anyway I can do that without quality loss? I tried TMPGenc XPress but I get strange "lines" when the video "sweeps" horizontaly...

No, every decode and recode has quality loss.

As for lines, I'm fairly certain AfterEffects handles interlace. If you want progresive then you need to deinterlace causing more loss. If you want to use progressive AfterEffects, consider shooting progressive to start.

How many minutes are you putting through AfterEffects?

I'd use avisynth to decode and deinterlace to uncompressed progressive for short sequences.

[Soopafresh]

Or Neoscene

[SodR]

I got my hands on AE CS4 which supports AVCHD so I guess I solved it that way. Thanks for the replys though

However when I'm rendering the video the video sometimes jumps back to a earlier frame and then back to the point "where it was" almost every second or two. The original video with a few effects applied on it plays fine in the build in AE "player" but in the jumping is visible in the preview of the video while rendering as well as in the final product. I have tried several different renedering settings (bitrate, format, fps etc) but it doesn't seem to help.

Any ideas?

[edDV]

I got my hands on AE CS4 which supports AVCHD so I guess I solved it that way. Thanks for the replys though

However when I'm rendering the video the video sometimes jumps back to a earlier frame and then back to the point "where it was" almost every second or two. The original video with a few effects applied on it plays fine in the build in AE "player" but in the jumping is visible in the preview of the video while rendering as well as in the final product. I have tried several different renedering settings (bitrate, format, fps etc) but it doesn't seem to help.

Any ideas?

Since when does AE CS4 support AVCHD? Give me links. Last I looked it didn't even support SD MPeg2.

Also, is your computer still a Pentium 4 3.6?

[SodR]

I got my hands on AE CS4 which supports AVCHD so I guess I solved it that way. Thanks for the replys though

However when I'm rendering the video the video sometimes jumps back to a earlier frame and then back to the point "where it was" almost every second or two. The original video with a few effects applied on it plays fine in the build in AE "player" but in the jumping is visible in the preview of the video while rendering as well as in the final product. I have tried several different renedering settings (bitrate, format, fps etc) but it doesn't seem to help.

Any ideas?

Since when does AE CS4 support AVCHD? Give me links. Last I looked it didn't even support SD MPeg2.

Also, is your computer still a Pentium 4 3.6?

Lol no, I got a Phenom 2 3.0Ghz quadcore.

Link: http://blogs.adobe.com/davtechtable/2008/09/intro_to_cs4_and_new_avchd_edi.html