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Originally Posted by Verbal
How do I get Windows Media Files into After Effect without having to manually convert them first?  |
your After Effects isn`t accepting WMVs? odd...
Anyhow, when it comes to editing, its always best to work with an uncompressed format. When editing with WMVs or MPEGs, After Effects has to alot more work behind the scenes (thus slowing down your computer).
Example, MPEGs don't ahve the same frame encoding as raw AVi, the encoding algorythm bunches up the frames and correlates them, so everytime your scrubbing an MPEG on a timeline, your NLE (Non Linear Editing System) has to unscramble everything to get an exact read.
So to answer your question,
1 - If After Effects isn't accepting your WMVs... what did you encode it with? Is it a WMV 8? WMV 9? or WMV HD?
If its WMV HD, the problem could be that you don't have the right codecs.
2 - Its better to uncompress your stuff to a raw AVI (preferably Microsoft DV codec) so as to be able to work with your stuff much better, plus when you re-encode it, you won't lose too much data ;)
If there is anything else, feel free to contact me