Slo Mo Vibrations

[Gunner Jones]

Is that the way it looks on the video monitor? If not, check it there.

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FCP-Avid-After Effects

[Lee Burrows]

Thanks for the quick response, Gunner.

Yeah, unfortunately it is the way it looks on my FCP monitor and video monitors. Would anti-aliasing or de-interlacing help?

Lee

G5 Mac OS X
Dual 2.0 Ghz
FCP 4.5 HD
XServe Raid 1 Terabyte

G4 Mac OS X
Dual 1.25 Ghz
FCP 4.5 HD
Lacie Drives 200 Gbs

[Gunner Jones]

Lee,
You might try these suggestions for high quality rendering:

[Joe Murray]

Slomo with interpolation (i.e. frame blending checked) often produces this type of artifact on fine lines or areas with detail like the shrubs. FCP is creating blended frames between the existing ones by blurring a combination of the frame before and frame after, so the shimmering effect is the result of every other frame being blurred to smooth out the motion. It works well on motion but not on areas of static high detail. Twixtor (by ReVision FX) is a plugin that deals with this well, but you may be able to accomplish a better result by isolating the moving parts of the image with a moving mask (around the people), and place that layer over the static background played at 100% to avoid the artifacts. Twixtor does this by allowing you to define certain parts of a shot with masks and change the speed of each with different choices for interpolation.

Hope this helps,

Joe Murray

[Lee Burrows]

Thanks Gunner

G5 Mac OS X
Dual 2.0 Ghz
FCP 4.5 HD
XServe Raid 1 Terabyte

G4 Mac OS X
Dual 1.25 Ghz
FCP 4.5 HD
Lacie Drives 200 Gbs

[Ivan George]

I’ve been editing DV for some time now. I’ve tried everything in fCP to get the cleanest slo mo possible. I found that setting slo mo to 40% is the cleanest ever.