rodlord Posted April 12, 2013 Report Share Posted April 12, 2013 Hi Until I upgraded everything I was always able to write IMG files from Aftereffects. With CS6 I find that this is not available. I used this all the time for animated texture maps and can't afford to loose it ! Is there any workaround or some codec or plugin or something ? In hope Rod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernovavfx Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 same here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Ola Scott and Rod, Adobe dropped several file formats in the output rendering. Why you don't use QuickTime PNG? It's lossless, 1/3 of the file size of the QuickTime Animation codec, support Alpha and 32 bits channels. EIAS 9 doesn't have problem with it. If you really need .img, you can export a QuickTime movie from after and convert in the QuickTime app to .img using the EIAS QuickTime plug-in. Hope that helps Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodlord Posted April 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2013 Excellent - thanks Tom Not sure where to get hold of the EIAS QT plugin but I will look for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 14, 2013 Report Share Posted April 14, 2013 Ola Rod, Get it here: http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/eicomponent Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodlord Posted April 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2013 Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodlord Posted April 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2013 Ah - well, I downloaded it and it immediately installs a load of rubbish connected to my Forefox browser that I really need like a hole in the head ! Then it decides that my Windows PC needs cleaning up ... only problem is I'm running Mac OS X ! Then I have to remove a load of useless facebook buttons and STUFF from an extra toolbar on the browser. So I decide to see how good it is at converyting to EIAS IMG format ... er ... it apparently doesn't do it at all ! No EIAS or IMG options whatever. How do I get rid of it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aziz Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Hi Rod, I checked the link Tom gave. I think you may have downloaded the wrong file. I saw a link to "Video Converter" which is an advert link. The file you need to download is EIAS Component for QuickTime - with options for various Mac and PC versions to download. You should eventually end up with a file called (in OS X): EIComponentUB.component Drag that to System/Library/Quicktime Apologies if you got the right file though. But if you got the advert link file, sorry about that too. I don't know how to get rid of that. Anyone else can help? Aziz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Ola Aziz, Thanks for you answer, Please, use Quicktime 7.6.6 Pro EIComponentUB.component OSX 10.6.8 and OSX 10.7.5 - Drag that to your HD/Library/Quicktime You will have the Import and export option including EI file format. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodlord Posted April 16, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2013 Thanks Aziz and Tom. I think I have found out how to uninstall the rubbish I ended up with but don't have time to tackle it right now. Tom - I'm afraid I still have some questions on this as I don't want to end up with the kind of problem I have faced before. On that occasion I upgraded QT only to find that Final Cut and DVD Studio need their own specific version of QT and what I had done without realising was screw up the proper functioning of those two. I currently have Quicktime 10.2 installed and I don't really want to go backwards to 7.6.6 as you suggest sbove. Also your advice as you specify above is relevant specifically to OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.5 ... but I am running 10.8.2 and there is currently an update available to 10.8.3. Does your very specific version advice hold true for this too ? I think I need to have another look at what I really need in case I end up causing more problems than I solve ! cheers Rod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernovavfx Posted April 16, 2013 Report Share Posted April 16, 2013 interesting that After Effects can read .img files fine but cant output them? ill look into that png thing... if its lossless and smaller thats a bonus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted April 16, 2013 Report Share Posted April 16, 2013 Ola Rod and Scott, Please, download here, you can have both quicktimes apps, I have both, I wrote about 10.6.8 and 10.7.5, because Im running these OS in this particular machine. http://support.apple.com/kb/DL923?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US Scott, Adobe removed several output formats, including XSI and several others, the Adobe team messaged me. Thanks Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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