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Trevor23820490ovxk
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December 18, 2023
Question

Pre Comp Clips playing back slowly compared to everything else

  • December 18, 2023
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Hi there!

I've got this collection of Pre Comps that end up being a christmas tree filled with clips. Something I grabbed from the adobe shop. I've got everything timed the way I want it to go with the music I've picked. I'm just running into a big problem.

When I go to edit the "Box Back 12" where my video clip would go, I can insert the video but it plays back very slowly compared to the rest of my composition. I edited the video in Premier and timed it up with the same song, so it should be running at the right time. For some reason though it's just really bogged down and slow running.

I"m still super new with AE so I know i'm explaining this badly. if anyones willing to help I'm good at finding answers to questions ya'll would have for me/if you need more information. 

Here's what I'm looking at. 

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David Arbor
Inspiring
December 27, 2023

After Effects is not a real-time application. It needs to render your layers together to play them back. MP4 is a very compressed format and it needs to be decoded before it can be played back, then processed again with the rest of your scene. I would try exporting a ProRes 422 or ProRes 422 (LT) version of your video from Premiere. The file will be much larger than your MP4, but AE will play it back more smoothly.

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