I cannot Import movie file in flame help!

[hat]

Hi there

I’m upgrade flame 9.5.6

but I can import image but can’t movie files(avi,mov) -> type:unknown

appear

how about setting? I can import movie files in flame 9.2(same files)

pleaze help~

regards

[Anonymous]

hi,

just a guess: if you can import the same files into flame 9.2, flam e9.5.6 might be set to “auto” in import image.
you could try & select the specific movie format, as was necessary in flame 9.2.

good luck

robert

[Que]

You can not import compressed files…try running the movie thru After Effects w no compression, then import that movie.

[Anonymous]

you can import compressed formats into smoke (version 7) I just imported a Motion-JPEG quicktime file yesterday. Takes a LONG time…about 0.4x realtime for 720×486 29.97fps

[hat]

Thanks reply

I try all but I can’t import movie file

I don’t know why. I thought maybe something bug in flame

just I waiting for…..

[Anonymous]

hi,

stupid “workaround”:
as you say, that flame 9.2 does import those files, install 9.2 on the system & get a license & use it as fileconverter ;-))…
else you could use xstoner …

good luck
robert

[jonhollis_vb]

hi
i have exactly the same problem – upgraded to 9.5.6 and cant import quicktime files – but i dont remember a time when flame could import them properly……
jh

[paul_round]

It does depend on what codec the QT is, avid QT’s DEFINITELY won’t work.

Paul

[darren22446]

Hi

Quicktime codec matters see your user manual under image import for supported codecs – pretty much the same choice as for output

the other thing that matters is the frame size width must be a multiple of 4 (for quicktime) even if you are using Xstoner you have to resize the quicktime to the nearest multiple of 4 to allow input, eg quicktime is 475 x 396 must resize to 480 x 396 so that width is multiple of 4

From my experience if you don’t have xstoner then you can either use UNIX mediaconvert utility (search “mediaconvert” on discreet knowledge base website – password required) or you can use quicktime pro or combustion to create sequence of tiffs with a AIFF or WAV to import, I haven’t been able to find a surefire way besides Xstoner to import reliably all of the time.

cheers

Darren

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