Footage imports perfectly to Adobe Premiere, but not After Effects

bent

Hey guys, I'm working on a presentation for university and I have a slight problem.

I'm in a group project and working with a guy who's rendered some animation in Maya as an .AVI, and I can import it into premiere and it looks nice and smooth. However when I import it into After Effects each frame is ridden with black pixelated areas, and the problem persists when it's rendered out.

Seemingly this persists no matter what format I encode it in afterwards. I'm not with the other guy in my project now, but I know the animation was rendered using 'Radius' codec.

Any ideas?

Honk

A good rule of thumb would be to not render as an AVI from Maya, or any intermediate application at all. And to not use lossy compression at all, until your project is finished. You'll lose quality doing that.

Also, if you're rendering to AVI and the render process crashes while it's going on - you'll lose everything. Rendering image sequences is always the way to go.

Now, I can think of a few things to try.

I've never heard of the Radius codec before, but I'm guessing it's something you downloaded and installed. So I'd start with trying to uninstall whatever codec pack you got it from and reinstalling it.

You say it works in Premier, you can try to render it to, for example, an uncompressed .mov file and try importing that to After Effects.

Alternative and probably best solution; render a .tiff sequence from Maya and use that instead if you have the time.