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  • Video stutters when scaled down?

    Posted by Jackie Zabel on March 4, 2014 at 7:53 pm

    We’ve done several subtitling projects in the past few years with this process:

    1) Exporting a 16×9 sequence (1920×1080, APR, 23.98fps)
    2) Bringing that export into a 4×3 sequence (1280×960, APR, 23.98fps)
    3) Adding titles beneath the video.

    >>End result looks something like this:

    This process has worked quite well in the past, however, with this current project, once the export is brought into the 4×3 sequence, it has a slight stutter. The 16×9 sequence and export look fine, the 4×3 sequence is the same frame rate and codec as the export (APR, 23.98). It ONLY stutters when the image is scaled down. Exporting the 4×3 sequence also results in a stutter, so I don’t think it’s a render issue.

    Attempted work arounds that failed:
    – Nesting the 16×9 sequence in the 4×3 sequence
    – Restarting/switching computers/drives
    – using different firewire cables
    – trashing FCP preferences

    Has anyone encountered a similar problem and know what might be up?

    Thanks!!

    Mark Suszko replied 12 years, 5 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Mark Suszko

    March 4, 2014 at 9:18 pm

    Did you change your interlace settings?

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