rendering frames instead of fields. When she rendered fields, it didn't
look quite as crisp, but the motion artifacting disappeared and it
looked much better.
Thanks again for your help!
Mike
Mike McPhail
WJBK-TV FOX2 Detroit
248 395-8695
Philip Hodgetts wrote:
>
>
>
> On Dec 7, 2009, at 3:09 PM, mmcphail@comcast.net
> <mailto:mmcphail%40comcast.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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