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rendering out to play on plasma monitor
Hi there,
I have just completed a project that consist of all photograph stills. I panned them from right to left on the screen. The project needs to be completed on to a dvd so it can play on a Plasma monitor.
the clip was made in AE with a 720×480 widescreen pixel (1.2).At first attempt to render out the clip the movement of the stills on screen looked jittery and jumpy. However I managed to to fix that with rendering the clip with lower fields.
This made my DVD of the clip look smooth on a regular NTSC television monitor. Now to the problem: the clip played off the DVD still looks jittery and has horizontal lines showing, on the plasma monitor. It is also very jumpy and jittery played on computer monitor,off the DVD.
Any Ideas on how to render it out correctly and compress it correctly on to a dvd, so it will play smoothly on a 16:9 plasma monitor?
Thanks again
Rom
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4 Replies
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It seems that you were trying to make a N-video to play on a PaL-monitor.So,why not just shift your project setting into a Pal video and render again.Then ,the Pal-video can shurely be played smoothly on a PAL monitor.
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… you may be in trouble. There are some shots that just won’t look smooth on film or video. Have you heard that you shouldn’t pan along a picket fence, for example? I’ve found that sliding still images across the screen look stuttery or juddery when player back progressive, under the following conditions:
– the stills are all rectangular in shape
– the motion is linear (not curvy and organic) and constant
– there’s nothing else to distract the eyeBascially, I believe that the mind figures out the motion very quickly, and can actually see the still frames as a result. Just as the persistence of vision falls apart at lower frame rates, when this type of motion is used, the P of V falls apart at our frame rate of 24, 30, or 29.97. This is why going 60i worked: you effectively increased the frame rate to allow persistence of vision.
How to fix? If you can’t use fields, you’ll have to change your design:
– change the speed of the motion (try faster)
– make the pictures move at different speeds
– make the motion paths curved, organic lines (might work)
– distract the eye somewhere else with sparkly stuff, a river of flowing text or something
– make the images fade on/off at varying intervals so the eye doesn’t grow accustomed to the regular motion
(note: adding motion blur probably won’t work)… but that’s my opinion. I hope somebody else has a better solution. 🙂
Steve
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Hello,
Maybe try under video effects in AE the Reduce Interlace flicker as well and also try what Steve says as well as that makes sense in terms of the fast motion movement and complexity of the image detail.
Thanks,
Leo
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As well as the other suggestions, you may also be discovering the downside of most plasma monitors/tvs – they have really heavy imagm processing circutry that can often act to highlight any imperfections in the video – watching commercial DVDs on plasmas can be painful as the MPEG blocking becomes much more obviously and low-bandwidth satellite TV is just terrible often.
These things tend to be ‘softened’ out by the analogue nature of CRT TVs but become much more obviously on digitally processed displays such as plasmas.
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