Jittery Still Images

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[CoastalFog] “Sorry if this one has been covered a million times”

You’ve got that right.
That’s what the SEARCH POSTS is for, you can find your answer in seconds.

But no mattter, here it is again:

You should not attempt a serious edit by only looking at the computer monitor for judging quality.

FCP is designed as an editing SYSTEM to be operated with an external video monitor connected
(through a camcorder is just fine) DURING the edit process.
The external video monitor would have shown you that many video “freeze frames” will wiggle, dance, jitter, flicker, etc.

This Still-frame “flicker” is absolutely normal and is due to the fact that video “frames” are actually made up of TWO “fields”.
If there is a lot of ACTION (or motion) in the frame you chose to “freeze”, the 2 fields will appear slightly different from one another and will jump back-and-forth between themselves, over and over during the “freeze”.

To solve the problem, just add the “Flicker Filter” or, better still, the “De-Interlace Filter” to the freeze(s).

Effects (tab) >
Video Filters >
Video >
De-Interlace (or)
Flicker Filter

Again, if you watch the external monitor, you will see the flicker go away after a filter is applied.

[Coastalfog]

Matte,
Please re read my post as i stated rather clearly I was outputting to an NTSC monitor and still getting this flicker.
I’ve ended up reinstalling FCP 4.5 and doing the project in there as 5 is just having some very weird problems.

These issues have seemed to clear themselves up in 4.5, however i’m still having some transition problems.

Cris…

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[CoastalFog] “re read my post as i stated rather clearly I was outputting to an NTSC monitor”

My post was “pasted” from a previous post of mine (actually several).
You “stated rather clearly” that you thought this was probably a common problem.
I just performed the SEARCH POSTS for you.

And, from the basic nature of your question, it never hurts to cover all aspects of a problem for the original poster and for those lurkers out there who are searching for answers to their problems.

Sorry you did not care for my help.

[Walter Biscardi]

You probably need to turn the Video Processing Motion tab setting to Best Quality. Normal will not yield great results with stills.

In the future, doing a Search Posts first will usually bring up some answers faster as this has been answered several times in this forum.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

Now editing “Good Eats” in HD for the Food Network

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[Kevin Monahan]

Deinterlace filter has done the trick since FCP 1.0.

Kevin Monahan
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