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Making my motion look better..
I am working on a sequence where I have multiple images of video cameras fly across the screen and get bigger as they come at you. When I preview it, the images look blurry and distorted. Any idea why this may be or what I do to make it look smoother?
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What are the sequence settings you’re using? What format are your images? Are you using keyframe motion? Filters? What is your final output format?
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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Sequence Settings:
HD (960×720) Compressor- DVCPro HD720p60Image Format: .jpg
Yes I am using keyframe motion and I am using a chroma key filter to remove the original background of the images.
I am playing back to a 720p monitor (aja kona 59.94 8 bit). If thats what you mean by final output.
Thanks again for your help!
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A few things you might try realizing the more images you’ve got flying at once, the more stress your processor has to deal with which could be contributing to the problem–
If you haven’t done so already, try putting each image in its own sequence bed that matches your video bed settings (720p60). Drop your chroma key onto the image to remove background, and then take each of the newly created image sequences back to the original video bed to do the keyframing. Depending on how many images you’ve got flying at once and how quickly the motion is, you might also try setting your RT to “safe” and doing a hard render to make sure that everything is conforming to the sequence settings. Then switch the RT back to “unlimited” and see if it plays back your edit more smoothly with the render file helping it out.
Depending on the aspect ratio of your still photos (especially if you’re resizing them to fit HD aspect), you could be seeing square/rectangle pixel problems. A hard render file might help sort that out.
Good luck, hopefully this’ll solve what you’re seeing. If you get more questions, let me know.
Josh
Digital Media, Thought Equity Motion
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It could help to use TIFFS with alpha channels rather than jpgs.
Not sure how much, but less stress.
Good Day
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