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  jittering and halos in animation on some TVs

  Posted by Ellen Osborne on January 6, 2015 at 4:35 pm

  I am having an issue with the Bluray discs burned from my animation project jittering and haloing on some TVs during play back. Not quite sure where to post this question. Please tell me if another forum would be better. Since most of the project is built in AE. I thought I’d try here first.

  Here is my workflow. Photoshop>AE>Premiere>Encore>Bluray. The animation project is 2048 x 1080 at 24 fps. I am using Apple ProRes 4444 throughout until I let Premiere encode for Bluray then I use the default settings. When I encode from Premiere for BluRay I use “scale to fill” setting so I have a full picture without black bars.

  The animation project consists of quite a few hard lines and this is where I am seeing the problems. However, I don’t see them on my computer monitor when viewing the mov. file. Nor do I see much of an issue on my home TV. However, when I have tried the discs in some other TVs, there is a small amount of jitter both vertically and horizontally and, even worse, there are white halos along many of the sharp lines. My question is what is causing this? And where in my workflow can I alleviate this situation? Or is it that these people just have there TVs set up wrong?

  Thanks for the help!

  P.S. Working on MAC. OS 10.10.1. 32 GB memory. All apps are CC 2014 except Encore with is CS6.

  Ellen Osborne replied 11 years, 6 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  Tero Ahlfors

  January 6, 2015 at 5:47 pm

  Do all the TV’s support 24fps natively? The haloing is probably caused by the sharpness settings on the TV.
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  Ellen Osborne

  January 7, 2015 at 6:27 pm

  Dave, the reason it is 2048 x 1080 is that it is for a festival and will ultimately be delivered on DCP @ 24fps (not 23.976.) “Scale to fill” seems to blow up the whole picture proportionally.

  I think the problem might be on the side of the TVs as Tero suggested. As I said, it is perfect on my tv. I think one of the other tvs I tried it on is over sharpened, which is causing the white outlines/halo. The third tv that I tried only has composite video going from the player to the TV. It was by far the worse situation.

  I am curious, however, if there is a filter in AE that will help the situation on TVs that are over sharpened without affecting the animation negatively. Or if I should go back to PS and blur all the edges.
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  Ellen Osborne

  January 7, 2015 at 8:44 pm

  Thanks Dave I’ll look into that. It definitely has a lot of saturated color in it.

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