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[Sue Rothberg]

i see it is not just jittery text but any movement of photos that move in from side to side. i just animated a few report covers that were shot at high quality and brought them in and animated them flying onto the screen. they look ok in AE but once i hit Make Movie then Render it looks jittery. what am i doing wrong.?

[Brian Lynn]

Need to know how you are defining “jittery”…

Best thing you could do is render a sample, and post it on youtube and give up a link! From that I can tell you so much more than I could with just using words to try and describe a problem. Especially this kind of problem.

Do you have problems with only one type of move? For instance, horizontal is nasty, but vertical works ok?

Hard edges on things you bring in can make the image looks like it almost crawls across a screen. This is because the line you are seeing is moving between pixels. After Effects does one of the best jobs of sub-pixel smoothing around, but it still can’t compensate for a hard edge. This might not be your problem at all though, which is why I would love to see a sample of what you’re talking about.

What are your comp settings? (composition>comp settings)
And render settings? (in the render cue tab under Render Settings)