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How to Get After Effcets CS5/CS6 Work with AVI files
Topic Started: Jun 20 2014, 03:28 AM (48 Views)
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Summary: In this article, we will give you the best way to import and edit AVI files in After Effects (CS5/CS5.5/CS6) on PC and Mac smoothly.

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Although After Effects officially announced that it could support AVI videos without problem, users still can not import AVI videos to After Effects for further editing easily:

"Hey everyone. I am having trouble when I import my AVI recordings into Adobe After Effects CS5.5. When I import the AVI file, no video is shown in the preview, only sound is detected. Anybody know the deal here? It would be really awesome if somebody knows the fix. Thanks"

How to solve the above problem? Read on this article, you will know how to edit AVI files in After Effects flawlessly.

AVI is a 'container' which can incorporate most any sort of video and audio format. However, your computer does not have all audio&videos codecs equipped to afford all kinds of AVI videos. That's why some persons only can make After Effects ingest audio or video information from one entire footage. If you want to import AVI files to Adobe After Effects without issue, you need to change the AVI files to MPEG (the most compatible video format for After Effects) first with an easy-to-use and professional third party software.

After countless tests, I highly recommend Brorsoft Video Converter for Mac to all of you which can help the users to encode any AVI files to Adobe After Effects supported format at super fast speed effectively. What's more, besides Adobe After Effects, it also supplies powerful profiles to other NLEs, like FCP, iMovie, Avid, Premiere .etc for Mac users. It has an equivalent Windows version Video Converter for PC users. Just get the right version according to your computer's OS and follow the step-by-step guide below to convert AVI videos to After Effects smoothly.

How to Import AVI files into After Effects

Step 1: Load source AVI footages

Launch the Video Converter on your Mac, and you can either click "Add" button to import .mp4 files, or directly drag and drop the files into this program.

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Step 2: Select output format

To import AVI files to After Effects, you can follow Adobe Premiere/ Sony Vegas column and select MPEG-2 (*.mpg) as output format.

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Tip: You are adviced to adjust parameters like bitrate, frame rate, sample rate and audio channel .etc in "Settings" before conversion.

Step 3: Start AVI to After Effects Conversion

Finally, press the convert button; it will start to transcode AVI files to MPEG-2 for Adobe After Effects CS4/CS5/CS6 immediately.

After the conversion, you can get the converted files via "Open" button and load the videos to Adobe After Effects by following File > Import > File…Now, you can edit AVI videos in Adobe After Effects without any problem.

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Summary: Read this guide to learn how to convert and transcode MXF file to MPEG-2 video for further editing with After Effects CS4/CS5/CS6/CC without hassle.

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As we all know, MXF becomes a popular file format as the development of the various camcorders, like Sony XDCAM, Panasonic P2 and Canon XF. However, using .mxf footage is not as easy as we think. This article I will concentrate on how to import MXF to After Effects. If you are planning to add some MXF clips to Adobe AE for further editing, just read on.

From Adobe official website, we can know MXF is a container format. After Effects can only import some kinds of data contained within MXF files. After Effects can import the Op-Atom variety used by Panasonic DV, DVCPRO, DVCPRO50, and DVCPRO HD video cameras to record to Panasonic P2 media. It can also import XDCAM HD files in MXF format. To import other type MXF files to After Effects for editing smoothly, a better way is to transcode MXF files to MPEG-2, which is a standard format for After Effects.

First of all, download Brorsoft MXF Converter.

It’s a professional MXF Converter for you to convert MXF to MPEG-2 for After Effects or other editable video formats, such as WMV for Windows Movie Maker, AVI to Pinnacle Studio, MPEG for Adobe Premiere Pro/Sony Vegas, etc ensuring maximum editing quality and efficiency. In a word, this MXF Converter must be your best choice when you need a Panasonic P2 mxf Converter, a Canon mxf Converter or a Sony XDCAM MXF Converter. You can do action with mxf files at anytime anywhere now! For Mac user, please turn to MXF Converter for Mac, which can solve all the MXF incompatibility issues on Mac OS X.

Transcoding MXF files to After Effects editable format

Note: To convert MXF video you need to transfer the whole MXF file structure to HDD, because MXF systems produce split-file A/V (that is, the video and audio stored in separate files).

Step 1: Add mxf captured videos

Click "add video" button to import the P2 mxf or Canon mxf files to the top MXF to After Effects Converter. Click “add from folder” button to add MXF folder. The software will find corresponding audio content by itself and mix it to video during conversion.

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Step 2: Select output format

Click “Format” bar and choose "Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas > MPEG-2 (*.mpg)” as output format on the drop-down menu. Of course, you can also choose AVI, MP4 from “Common Video” as the output format.

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Tips: Click "Settings", you can set bitrate and frame rate, audio sample rate and more if necessary.

Step 3: Start the MXF to MPEG-2 Conversion

Click "Convert" to start converting Panasonic/Canon/Sony XDCAM MXF file for After Effects. After conversion, you can easily import the MXF to Adobe After Effects for editing keeping original quality without any trouble.

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