Monday, December 7, 2009

Re: [FCP-L] Bad jitter in rendered clips from AE

On Dec 7, 2009, at 3:09 PM, mmcphail@comcast.net wrote:

> I have a 30 sec clip that was rendered to an Animation codec at
> 29.97fps for broadcast in SD NTSC. The video was all shot at 1080i
> at 29.97 on a green screen, and the graphic designer composited that
> behind & in front of other layers that she created in After Effects.
> When I bring it into Final Cut (6) and render it in 10 bit
> Uncompressed (though it doesn't seem to matter to what codec I
> render it) the whole timeline plays back very jittery. It almost
> looks like it should be de-interlaced - except that the jitter looks
> like it's vertical, not horizontal. It looks like this in FCP,
> Quicktime, & After Effects. If I stop on each frame it looks great,
> but stepping through slowly looks jittery, also. It's as if I had
> slowed it down & repeated the frames. In fact, she tried rendering
> it out at 60fps & it looks great - exactly what I wanted, however I
> can't put that on tv.. But if I try to convert it to 29.97 it looks
> just as bad. I've tried every combination of field dominance, codec,
> progressive or de-interlaced, and most other option I could find or
> think of.

Is the field order reversed? Try dropping it down one pixel vertically
and render a test section.

Philip

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