Video of piano fast moving hands artifacts

[Colin Morris]

Hi, I shoot a lot of classical music and Jazz. To get clean “piano hands” you need to start with a higher shutter speed. If it is live, I will use 2-3 cameras and use 1/60th sec or above for tight hand shots. If it is a music video, you have more control and can set up a bit easier. Youtube makes it worse because of the compression, so I would recommend lighting well, fast shutter, and render as few times as possible.

[John Rofrano]

[Kevin LaBonty] “When I review video after render on the pc (not sent to YouTube yet) the video is crystal clear but sometimes fast moving hands on the piano show artifacts or kind of a blur. More like blocky and pixelated for fast hand movement. What can I do to fix this?”

Increase the bit rate of your render. It sounds like these artifacts are being caused by not having enough bits to accurately represent the movement in your video.

~jr

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[Ron Bakker]

I think John’s answer is the right one but I find on fast moving objects that “disabling resampling” sometimes gives a better result. Another time I found that original footage and project settings were at different resolution and frame rate which made the end product look pretty bad.

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[Nigel O’neill]

Check your deinterlace method in your project properties and try setting it to interpolate fields.

[Kevin Labonty]

It was the bit rate, I increased it to 8,000,000 and the artifacts are gone. Thank you.

It fixed the hands but now the titles in the graphics seem to be very soft and not crisp anymore. Any ideas on text not being crisp?

[Fabio Mereghetti]

What are your project properties?