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jitter pan
I usually can find all my answers in the archives, but I’m having a hard time thinking of search terms to describe my problem. So her it goes:
I’m shooting 60i with a Panny DVX 100a, capturing at DV-NTSC with FCP 4.5 on an external FW400 LaCie drive. I”m use to a little frame “jitter” or “stutter” on capture, but I noticed it in my timeline, too. I burned a clip to a DVD (using QT)and any camera movement looks the same, like crap! Is it missing frames? I checked the tape and it looks smooth.
What’s happening? Thanks for your help.
FCP 4.5 /
OS 10.4.9 /
1Ghz G4 powerbook + 1 G ram /
LaCie External drive FW 400 150 GB /
playback deck: Pan dv2500 -
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The DVX does not shoot 60 i
Make sure your sequence preset is set to DV NTSC or DV NTSC Anamrophic… your footage should NOT appear red when you drop it in the timeline… it should play smoothly without rendering
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Thanks for responding, but you are incorrect when you state the DVX does not shoot 60i, or standard mode. And I said nothing about having to render video, which is not the case.
Anyone else have an idea about what’s causing jerky video? I’m thinking it’s either my use of an external hard drive or a captured incorrectly.
Thanks,
MarkFCP 4.5 /
OS 10.4.9 /
1Ghz G4 powerbook + 1 G ram /
LaCie External drive FW 400 150 GB /
playback deck: Pan dv2500 -
The DVX 100A should SD video only.. 60i is generally reserved for talking abut HD formats
Either in 29.97 fps or in a 24p mode that generally requires FCP to do a pulldown
It is JUST DV material… and the DV DV Widescreen and DV 24p settings work fine….
If material is strobing on a VIDEO monitor that is hooked up to your computer… but not when you play back the tape… then you have issues with your sequence setting.
If it is just your computer monitor…. then that can be because of the computer monitor and not being interlaced…
If it were your hard drive.. you should be getting a dropped frame warning
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Thanks for thinking about my problem, Richard.
Briefly, I thought 60i and 29.95 fps were interchangeable terms and only mentioned it because in other posts it seemed helpful to the problem solvers to distinguish it from 24 fps, which can come with a natural flicker, or jitter, if you pan too quickly.
I will triple check my sequence setting on your recommendation, but the problem seems to have been helped by making more room on my INTERNAL hard drive (where the FCP program is). I thought 8 G of space was adequate, but it seems to run smoother with the now 25 G of space.
Just want to pass this along to future searchers of this forum.
FCP 4.5 /
OS 10.4.9 /
1Ghz G4 powerbook + 1 G ram /
LaCie External drive FW 400 150 GB /
playback deck: Pan dv2500
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