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Why are my pics rippling when they are in motion?
I am editing a project that is primarily pics that are enlarging and turning as they dissolve into each other using key framing. For some unknown reason it looks like there is a breakdown in the quality of my pictures and they are rippling as they enlarge. Pictures of the ocean, look like the water is moving as the picture zooms/enlarges, as do thin lines (they candy stripe like a barber shop stripe). Is this an interlace problem? PLEEEEASE HELP!!! 😉
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It’s an unavoidable artifact in FCP when scaling images. It’s especially visible when moving upward or downward (tilting) on an image. FCP isn’t very good at doing these things.
If I have to do move or re-scale an image, I’ll set it up for timing in FCP, but transfer the project over to After Effects, using Automatic Duck, to do the actual rendering.
You don’t need Automatic Duck to do this, but if there are a lot of images it pays for itself the first time around.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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Hi Lewis,
Which is your sequence codec?
FC is not the best tool for zoom&pan pics, but can do a decent job.
Are you smoothing the keyframes?
Are you setting “Render Motion Effects: BEST?
There are also few plugins that will help you to get easier and better pan&zoom in FC.
Use the search function and you will find them.
Rafael -
The images are probably at too high a resolution – try a resize down to 72dpi.
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Doesn’t matter if the image is 72 PPI or 1000 PPI.
What matters is the total number of pixels across. If you’re working in 1080p30 HD, the miniumum should be 1920 pixels wide. Double that if you’re going to “zoom in” to the photo, and more than 1080 pixels high if you’re going to do any tilting.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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Hey thanks guys for prompt responses!! This is great information! I am going to try these tricks out and get back to you, with the results!! I REEEEALLY Appreciate it!!
Lew -
Another suggestion: Try doing the DVE moves in Motion. Although I haven’t used Motion I suspect it has a better rendering engine than FCP.
Dean Sensui — Hawaii Goes Fishing
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Does FCP have an anti flicker filter? Edius and Premiere can have this problem with still images but the anti flicker is the solution. It will blur the image but it is hard to notice. I can only imagine FCP has an anti flicker filter for still images but blur filter might work better than nothing?
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Yes, it’s called Flicker.
All the best,
Tom
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