Hi all.

was wondering if any SM users have used after effects much to produce videos of animations they have rendered out of Maya??

I have been doing this (or trying to) quite a bit recently, but can never manage to produce a smooth video out of After Effects, theyre always choppy and stuttering.
I have tried different framerates for compositions (30 frames a sec and 24), and different output video formats (quicktimes, windows movies etc...)

Does anyone have any tips on what works best?

Frames rendered out of Maya have always been JPEGS...is this ok for animations? Ive been wondering if this could be the issue though i don't really see why it should be. A friend of mine who i've been doing some projects with has ended up using premiere to render out videos of the same animations, and they're always smooth.

Anybody have any tips on what possible issues could be causing videos to be choppy, or settings they like to use to get good vids out of AFX? The after effects work isnt very complicated, im not adding tons of shape layers and particle effects or anything, just basic colour and ao layers from maya and a bit of colour correction...

??

Ben