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Stuttering / juddery / skipping / weird pans when sped up in FCPX
Hi all,
I’m having an issue with my pans becoming stuttery when they’re sped up. Here’s a quick example:
https://youtu.be/2XexFi4Dvsg
That’s not even the worst one, some stutter more than others.I’m shooting in 4k with a Panasonic GH4, which is fine before it’s sped up, once it’s rendered it shows the same in FCPX, as it does when exported at 4k, 1080, 720 (which is what the upload is in) and as you can see still is horrible once put through youtube.
I’m only speeding the clips up to around 125%, nothing major!
I’ve viewed it on two different macbook airs running Yosemite – I know what you’re thinking, it’s the 8GB 1.7Ghz i7 that is the issue – which if somehow when you watch the clip on your higher end computers it’s not juddering, then yes it is, but I’ve had this issue before and tried it on all kinds of computers to no avail.
I can’t find any posts relating to this, but surely I can’t be alone on this!
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What is the native camera frame rate, what is your FCPX project frame rate, and what is the export frame rate? Are you exporting straight from FCPX or through Compressor? Have you tried optical flow smoothing? Does it look different if exported as ProRes vs H264? ProRes doesn’t use cross-frame compression so that would be an interesting test. If it doesn’t happen on a ProRes export, what bit rate is your H264 export?
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