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  • My crawl shakes and I am looking for advice

    Posted by Douglas Stevens on September 18, 2013 at 12:59 am

    Need a guru to tell me a trick to keep my scrawl text from being jerky.

    I’ve read people’s comments and tried the following.

    I tried making the clip 60 seconds or a multiple thereof.

    I picked a script without seriphs (Arial bold)

    I added color to the white letters.

    In the Adobe Media Encoder, I picked maximum render quality, frame blending, Field Order lower, Bitrate encoding of VBR/2pass.

    Nothing solves the problem.

    Some people say After Effect almost always renders better on text and graphics than Premiere. I don’t have After Effects but I had a friend take my text and make a crawl in AE, and it was jerky for him too.

    It doesn’t appear that people have a jerking problem with rolls.

    Somebody referred to a 3rd party accelerator card but I don’t know what that is…

    Somebody said “allow smoothing,” but I think that referred to some process in Flash…

    Somebody recommended a program called BorisFX but on their site they brag about a lot of things but not about making a smooth crawl, so I figured they must not solve that issue.

    Thanks, Doug do*************@*sn.com

    Chris Gunningham replied 12 years, 7 months ago 2 Members · 3 Replies
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  • Douglas Stevens

    September 18, 2013 at 12:11 pm

    Aha,

    I right click on the clip and select Frame Blend.

    Voila!!

  • Douglas Stevens

    September 19, 2013 at 10:14 am

    Oh no.

    My burned H264s have stuttering crawls again.

    I saw that Jim Simon and Bill Hunt on the Adobe forum suggeested to make the crawl in Photo Shop, and then use Motion and keyframes to make the crawl, bypassing the titler completely.

    I don’t have Photo Shop but I will get it.

    Some of my crawls are ten minutes long.

    Should that work? Anything else I should know?

    Would love some input from the experts. (I would contact those two directly but don’t know how.)

    Thanks Doug

  • Chris Gunningham

    September 23, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    Try changing your field order from lower to upper, also view on a display capable of displaying an Interlaced signal.
    Progressive rollers always look jerky hence most people use static cards in progressive projects, so Interlaced (upper field) should give you smoother motion. Hope that helps.

    Chris Gunningham

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