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Movie Processing Problem

Posted by Rondan on May 25, 2007 at 11:08am
SUBJECT: Movie Processing Problem Last night and today I tried a number of times to process a short 5 sec video in SA 3.5- each time it starts on and seems to complete the first frame and then SA just quits. This happened a number of times. I then tried to procees images in a folder, again after it completed the first image it kept quitting. I have processed video and still images before, on this machine and I don't know how to fix the problem. Need help. Rondan

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  • John Moorehead May 25, 2007 at 12:12pm
    It might be the movie compression settings - if they are set too high - SA will just quit out. Tone the compression down to something reasonable - this might help.
    • Rondan > John Moorehead May 25, 2007 at 1:03pm
      Which compression setting. Do you mean drop from 10 fps to 8 fps? What is reasonable?

      Thanks,

      Ron
      • John Moorehead > Rondan May 25, 2007 at 1:13pm
        under :
        file/preferences/movie compression.

        It could be set to 'animation' or none' - you may want to set it at a lower compression setting for creation of a smaller file. Someting like h.264 may be better. I am not really sure whicj setting is better for you - this was a setting I needed to adjust on my end to avoid crashing
  • beyond materials May 25, 2007 at 12:15pm
    I had a problem with SA crashing on me while painting and I threw out the Preferences and that seemed to have fixed it. Not sure what caused the crash to happen in the first place, but all is well now.

    b
    • Rondan > beyond materials May 25, 2007 at 1:06pm
      How do you throw out the preferences? Which ones.

      Thanks,

      Rondan
  • Synthetik May 25, 2007 at 3:06pm
    I think you just need to reset your Studio Artist movie compression preferences. Start up Studio Artist, go to the file : preferences : movie compression preferences dialog, then change all the settings, even if you just change them and change them back. Then quit Studio Artist and then restart Studio Artist.

    The issue is that sometimes after a Quicktime or OS upgrade the stored movie compression preference settings become invalid. Quicktime can't deal with invalid compression settings and the crash comes from Quicktime when Studio Artist attempts to write out the first frame of the processed movie.
    • Rondan > Synthetik May 25, 2007 at 5:45pm
      Thanks John.
      I followed your advice and I was able to process a movie.


      Rondan
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