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Stuttering motion…
I’ve created some movies that use solids that glide across the screen. I’ve outputted my AE movies to DV format so I could make a iDVD of some of this content. But I’m noticing some of the movement of these solids across the screen feels pretty stuttered somehow.
I’m a bit of a newbie, so perhaps this is some basic video principle I need to learn.
Can anyone make a suggestion as to why this is happening?
Thanks,
Rolyn -
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you may need/want to enable motion blur, or you may want/need to render with fields….
to enable motion blur, in the time line you’ll need to switch on motion blur for any layers that you want to have motion blur by clicking the motion blur option in the layer’s switches panel. to preview what the comp will look like with motion blur, enable motion blur by clicking the motion blur button at the top of the timeline.
to render with fields, you’ll need to set that in the render settings in the render queue. from the render queue, click the render settings (‘best’) and set filed render to lower (for ntsc dv). then render.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW -
it’ also possible that your file has a data rate that exceeds the data rate of your drive… that would result in stutters as you play back the file…
does your composition play back well in ram preview in ae (when you hit the zero on the numbers pad)?
if it does, then the render is probably fine, it’s just the data rate of the file is too high. that won’t matter much when you burn a dvd. when you create a dvd, the file will be converted to mpeg2 at a data rate that a dvd is capable of playing back smoothly. so no worries.
if it stutters in ram preview, then try motion blur or interlacing the final render.
Kevin Camp
Senior Designer
KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW
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