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Stuttering Stills
I have been trying my hardest to stop the stills in my production from stuttering. They are not smooth at all. I am using MPEG Movies from my Canon 7D. Image Size: 1920×1080. Pixel Depth: 32 Pixel Aspect Ratio: 1.0. The stills are JPEG files. Image Size:1872x 2808. Pixel Depth: 24. Aspect Ratio: 1.0
The project is a simple 7 minute Wedding fusion piece. The videos and stills go back and forth between two video tracks. There are only about 4 cross dissolves in the whole piece The only effect is on the video clips and this is fast color correction which just has a mild adjustment in the mids to brighten the video a bit. The audio is a soundtrack I did in Garageband as an m4a file. The vows by bride and groom are also m4a on separate tracks.
The stills have movement (Ken Burns style) The key frames are only controlling position and scale.
What I have tried:
In Field Options: Always Deinterlace – Not working
Flicker Removal – Not working
Effect Controls: Anti-flicker – Not working
Resize jPegs smaller – not working
Resize jPegs bigger – not working
Render without GPU Acceleration (incase of problems with Graphics Card) – not working
Render with all three types of Bitrate Encoding (CBR, VBR1, VBR2) – Not workingDoes anyone else have this problem?
The final project, although the edits look good and the assets are good quality, looks like it was done on cheap video editing software.Any assistance would be much appreciated. I am trying to keep the faith in Premiere, but it is getting harder.
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Hi William,
You’re not really saying where this is happening, and in what format.
I’m guessing it’s in playback after export. And if that’s the case, it likely has nothing to do with Premiere itself.
If you are playing back in Quicktime for example, then it’s likely that the machine does not have enough processing power. H.264 and Quicktime need some serious hardware to playback slow pans and zoom smoothly. Ideally, try something else like VLC/Windows Media and see if it goes away.
If you are seeing this on a DVD, then I would look into keeping the bit rate under 8 Mb/s, as well as burning at a very low speed, start with 4x. Both could cause the DVD errors (skipping frames or freezing) on playback.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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It is happening in Pr, but it is subtle. However, when put into Quicktime or H.264, you can really see it. It does transfer to DVD. You can tell the position and scale are moving across the still image and it kind of drags.
I seriously doubt it has to do with processing speed (see below).
My system:
Mac Pro
Quad Core Intel Xeon x 2 (8 Core)
2.4 GHZ
16GB RAM
WD 600GB HD 10,000rpm Raptor (OS, Apps and Project Files)
3 1TB WD HD 7200rpm in RAID 5 (video and audio assets)
1TB External G-RAID mini RAID 1 hooked up via eSata (exports and backups) -
And just to confirm, is this timeline 30P? Is your export 30P as well?
See if you get the same results in VLC, QT is a hog when it comes to H.264, especially at anything above 10 Mb/s
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
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timeline is 23.976 FPS. What should I be using to go to DVD?
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You can export to 24p to a DVD, but 24P can also be tricky with motion (I honestly stay away from it whenever possible).
It would help if you could post a sample, but a zoom or pan that is too fast can cause jitter with 24P, the same way it does when panning a camera.
Vince Becquiot
Kaptis Studios
San Francisco – Bay Area -
So, in the future should I set up my project as 30 fps and allow my 29.97 fps clips fit into that and then the motion on my stills might behave better? Also, trying to get this project to a DVD. I am choosing MPEG2-DVD and then I do not know what presets to use. I just want to get this on a DVD that can play on a widescreen TV.
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If you are shooting at 29.97, you should edit at 29.97.
If you are shooting interlaced, you should edit at 29.97 interlaced. You will probably see an improvement in the still pan & scan, too. Although, Premiere does not do excellent graphics (still) motion; that is better done in After Effects.-jeff
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Cool. Thanks Jeff. I guess I better start learning AE to make things right.
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