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animation plays with horizontal skip
I apologize in advance for this question, I’m sure that if I knew what I was doing this wouldn’t be an issue;
I rendered frames from 3dsMax 2010 (.tga 640×480 @ 30fps) and brought them into After Effects CS4. Within AE and when viewed through another video player, the animation has noticeable issues with the way the motion is compiled. For the most part it’s fine, but there is a horizontal mismatch that appears. I don’t know how better to describe it than a bit flickery, and not as smooth as it should be. There is an obvious horizontal fault every so many seconds.
I ensured that both the composition and the project were set to 30 fps (non-drop). Everything else is default. Is this an issue with interlacing? pixel ratio?
I uploaded a sample of the video;
patrickcoan.com/temp/composition.rarModeration in all, and all is relative.
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Rather than making a comp and dropping in the footage, have you tried dragging the footage to the Make Comp icon at the bottom of the Project Panel?
Also check to see that in the Preview Panel, the Frame Rate is set to Auto.
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Unfortunately, I had those things covered already. I’m creating an uncompressed AVI from Max right now to see what that gives me.
Moderation in all, and all is relative.
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So I rendered an uncompressed AVI straight from the source (Max) and then compressed is using the AME, it runs smooth. So I’m curious what is happening in AE.
The smooth footage is at;
patrickcoan.com/temp/composition2.rarModeration in all, and all is relative.
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It might be a frame rate mismatch. Quicktime reports the frame rate of your first movie as 30 fps; the second is 29.97.
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By default, AE imports a still sequence at 30 fps.
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