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After Effects looks jittery in XDCam Sequence
Hi,
New to High Def. Client is editing in Final Cut with the Sequence matching his footage from his XDCam 1140×1080 Field dom Upper XDCam 1080i60…
I made his graphics 1920×1080 square pixels 29.97. I have video in windows moving across the screen horozontally. The horozontally moving video frames are all jittery. Tried progressive render. Tried field render. Tried slowing down the motion. Still looks jittery.
After Effects V8 does not have a preset for XDCam…
Any Clue?
Thank you in advance.
Doug
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4 Replies
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Hi, Thank you for your response.
1. The footage I imported into After EFX was XDCAM codec 1440_1080 16:9 — 1
field dominance UPPER XDCAM 1080i602. The ram preview looked fine on the computer monitor… BUT… I have a Matrox MXO2 and AfterEffects can play out previews through that to a monitor. the MXO2 output looked jittery…
3. When I rendered out of After Effects I used h.264 I also used a lossless codec ANIMATION.
4. Also… Whenever I tried to look at my rendered animations in quicktime pro they would only play the first 5-8 seconds and then hangup. They will play through in Final Cut but again they look jittery.
Doug
Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel -
Hi,
I rendered upper field, lower field, no fields… they all looked bad lower looked the worst.
I still do not have a solution for this.
Does a nwer version of AFX help?
Doug
Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel -
1. No fits and starts
2. No horo linesIt really looks like frame order but as I described earlier I have rendered it in all flavors and none of them look good. I checked with the client and he confirmed that he shot XDCAM 1080i60. Field Dominant Upper.
He did the edit in FCP with the sequence as XDCAM 1080i60 1440 – 1080. Now this video is being used to make a SD DVD… So as a work around what if he converted the Final Cut edit to SD something else before he added the graphics… then I could make him a version in SD and he cold at least get the SD DVD out the door without any visible problems… Clients these days want to shoot in HD so they have it for future use but they are releasing content in SD for DVD etc….
Doug
Doug Normington
NORMCO Multi-Media, Inc.
(608) 824-0999 Office
(608) 345-7579 Cel -
is it possible to post part of the footage so we can see the issue… even if it was just a portion of the frame that showed the problem it would be helpful.
also, if you did want to test if the codec was the issue, but not bug the client, you can convert the footage using a compression utility (like media encoder, compressor, mpeg-streamclip, or even quicktime pro).
if it works, then next time you can have the client provide a different codec.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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