Jerky Animation

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

That’s how I would do it…

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Aharon Rabinowitz
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http://www.allbetsareoff.com

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[Andy Rennie]

Thanks for your reply Aharon.

[Aharon Rabinowitz]

sorry i could not be more help. Other than going back to whomever provided the material and asking them to do it right, there’s not much you can do at the post production end, except hard work….

But wait! Hmmm….

Unless, you want to convert it to an image sequence (TIFF, TGA, PNG, JPEG), and then just delete duplicate frames. Not as much work as it sounds

Import the footage into AE – but not as a sequence –

then make a comp, drop all images in and then make them each one fram long (trim them tot he first frame).

then select them all and choose Animation > Keyframe Assistant > sequence layers – no overlap

Then move through it frame by frame deleting all duplicate frames.

Then (again) select them all and choose Animation > Keyframe Assistant > sequence layers – no overlap

That will do it. that should be easier, I think… Does that make sense?

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[Roland R. kahlenberg]

[Aharon Rabinowitz] “That will do it. that should be easier, I think… Does that make sense?”

Hi Aharon, great solution there except for the trimming bit. There’s a preference setting to set the duration for stills. That alone will safe quite a bit of time for the trimmings.

I was wondering if Dan would be able to write a script to look for duplicates and then I thought about using a different matte to help locate identical, adjacent frames.

One way to go about this is to do the Sequence layers thingy. Then select all layers and duplicate them. After duplication, the duplicates will still be selected. leave them selected and precompse those.

Now apply the Difference Matte for the first frame (layer) and set the precomposed layer as the Difference Layer. Save as Animation Preset. Select all single frame layers and then apply the Animation Preset. Nudge the precomposed layer one frame ahead in time.

Now stepping through the timeline looking for repeat frames will be quick and easy – just delete any single layer frame should the comp window be pure black.

Make ense?

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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[Kevin Camp]

if the duplicate frames are regular… ie always 3-in-a-row, then you could just drop the footage in to a comp that is the frame rate divided by the number of duplicate frames (frame rate/3, in my example). or use interpret footage to set the frame rate of the clip to the number of frames times the actual frame rate and put that into a comp that is the actual frame rate.

either way, you may be able to precomp that and apply time remap on the precomp, or render the new footage, import and apply time remap.

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Roland R. kahlenberg]

Sounds workable. And my solutoin doesn’t need a Difference Matte. Just the Difference blending mode should do. That plus a few nudges for the precomped layer after each repeat frame is found.

But the best solution is to get the bugger to provide better files to work with.

Cheers
Roland Kahlenberg
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