Twixtor problems at 60% slowdown

[Joseph W. bourke]

Here are some good tips for using Twixtor:

https://philipbloom.net/2011/09/13/twixtor/

Joe Bourke
Owner/Creative Director
Bourke Media
http://www.bourkemedia.com

[Pierre Jasmin]

If you have stop frame like issue it’s possibly because you did not set FPS in properly OR have repeat frames in the footage

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Pierre
RE:Vision Effects

[Dean Chapman]

Thanks Pierre, I will check out the tuts.

I am trying to slow down a Pre-Comp to 60%. The Pre-Comp has a PNG image sequence (among other layers) inside. Pre_Comp and layers inside Pre-Comp are all set/interpreted at 50fps. I am indeed getting repeat frames when slowing down to 60%……but the original sequence is fine.

The “Input: Frame Rate” within Twixtor is 50fps.
Using “Motion Weighted Blend.”
Smart Blend is checked.

Using Frame Blending.

Thanks!

[Pierre Jasmin]

Turn off Frame Blending, probably the cause of the problem then.

Pierre

[Dean Chapman]

i tried turning frame blending off…but still running into the issue.

One thing I didn’t mention is that I am ramping speeds up and down…..I start with 200% then 100% then 150% and then 60%. No duplicate frames until i get to the point in which i switch from 150% speed to 60%.

The switch to 60% happens at frame 90.
The next key I have is again 60% at frame 283.
And then back to 100% at frame 286.

I get duplicate frames between frame 90 and 189…..then it’s fine the rest of the way (ends at frame 550)

I also tried this process directly on the PNG sequence (instead of Pre-Comping)…..Same result.
It’s a 3D rendered PNG sequence at 50 fps.

One thing to note is if I ditch all the ramping keyframes from 200% to 100% to 150% and so on….and just do a two key frame shift from 100% to 60%, everything works as expected…..no duplicates.