• Adobe After Effects

  top line of video field flckering

  Posted by Marcosh on November 11, 2008 at 6:32 pm

  Hi there,

  I’m working with some uncompressed 10 bit footage on AE CS3 and when I play it on the composition and/or render out I see the higher or the top line of every other frame/field flickering.

  I checked the interpret footage settings and everything seems to be ok (separate fields / lower field first, Pixel aspect ratio DV/D-1)…

  I’d appreciate if any of you guys could help me out!

  Thanks,

  Marcos H.

  Quad G5
  2GB RAM
  OS 10.4.7
  FCP 5.0.4
  AE 6.5

  Marcosh replied 17 years, 10 months ago 2 Members · 4 Replies
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  Marcosh

  November 11, 2008 at 6:45 pm

  Thanks, Dave.

  Just one question: when I create a new comp, by simply dragging the aforementioned clip onto the “comp icon”, that line doesn’t show.

  The settings between both comps seem to be the same though.

  Should I be checking something else.

  Quad G5
  2GB RAM
  OS 10.4.7
  FCP 5.0.4
  AE 6.5
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  Marcosh

  November 11, 2008 at 6:53 pm

  I actually just found out what’s happening. I had time-stretched it 50%…

  Still, isn’t there anyway I could fix it? Although it’s outside the TV screen safe area, I’m afraid that as that’s going to be on a DVD, if someone plays it on the computer they’ll be able to see the line.

  Thanks again,

  Marcos H.

  Quad G5
  2GB RAM
  OS 10.4.7
  FCP 5.0.4
  AE 6.5
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  Joey Burnham

  November 11, 2008 at 7:23 pm

  Sound to me like you’re just seeing the VITC. This is quite common actually. I usually just crop it out with a mask.
  Joey
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  Marcosh

  November 11, 2008 at 7:52 pm

  Thanks, guys. I’ll try scaling it a bit.

  Quad G5
  2GB RAM
  OS 10.4.7
  FCP 5.0.4
  AE 6.5

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