After Effects error

[Iron Mole]

Hello, I have a short test clip shot in 24P mode, captured in Vegas 7.0e to a 515 MB .m2t file that I've been trying to import into After Effects. It won't load and get the following error...

" AEGP-Plug-in AAF: Error occurred while creating project. (5027::12)"

I've tried it in two different versions of AE (7, CS3) to no avail. It seems like a clip that small (515 MBs) shouldn't be a problem. Do you guys have any info that may help? I'm using Win XP SP2, 3400+. Seems like I should have enough juice.

I've also tried importing a .mpeg captured in Premiere but that doesn't work either.

Thanks for your time.

[sp8ce07]

Enter your error code into google.com

[Iron Mole]

That was the first thing I tried (googling error code). The only thing I found that came close was a guy with problems importing OMF files... seems related to ProTools. Has anyone else had any problems importing into After Effects? I looked thru the previous threads and couldn't really find any.

[Iron Mole]

OK, let me try a different approach... is there any reason I SHOULDN'T be able to open an .M2T file in After Effects? I mean, are other people opening them in AE without a problem?

[Rastus]

Iron Mole-

I can't tell you why you are having problems.

I can tell you that I have no problems importing .m2t files in AE 7. I'm on an older AMD AthlonXP 2x 2800+. I've opened .m2t files as large as 1.5gigs.

All my HV20 clips were captured using HDVSplit v0.77.

Perhaps that would make a difference in your case.

Good luck.

-Rastus

[swaneon]

i cant open them in AE either but i use Vegas to export as wmv/avi

[Iron Mole]

Thanks Rastus, I guess I'll look into different capturing methods. Yeah, I did an AVI export from Vegas and could open that in AE... but I hate using a re-compressed image.

I wonder if there's some sort of codec installed with Vegas that's creating a problem since I couldn't use a Premiere capture either (I don't know a lot about how some of this stuff works).

Since it sounds like a few other people have the same problem, I'll post any info I come across.

Thanks.

[visugeek]

I'm using AE 6.5 and it didn't work with the Premiere Mpeg files, or the Vegas 7 m2t files. There should be a loader plugin that will work for older versions of AE, but I haven't found one yet.

[conjsports]

Just export as uncompressed avi and your problem is solved.

[Iron Mole]

Conjsports, when exporting an uncompressed AVI, is it really completely uncompressed? Also, can you still do the pulldown from this AVI file?

I tried importing captures made with HDVsplit and they didn't work either. I did see a quite few other people having the same problems on a other sites, specifically with HV20 files. Someone mentioned they thought the problem was caused by trying to import a DIVX file into AE... but I can't see that has anything to do with this case. I do have DIVX codecs loaded on my system... is it possible this is interfering somehow?

-Thanks