[Douglas Kerr]

thanks guys, I checked on a cheap domestic DVD player, looks much the same as playback through Mac. Which means its not a playback issue, must be in the render stage or before, is that right???

I’m am running a
2 x 3GHZ Dual Core Zeon Mac Pro,
8GB 667MHz DDR2.
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT.
SATA 2 (16mb cache I think) 750GB drive

The renders are 1280 x 720 Progressive, QT Animation codec.
The data rate for a full render is showing 495.78.mbits/Sec. 2:10 duration / 7.79 GBs

Is it possible you can achieve different results from the hardware you use to render out??? I thought it only effected time taken to process.

Is there an effective way to test what the max data rate my system can handle??
(better than this way I mean!!)

Anyone know of a good online guide to video codecs?

thanks again.

[Douglas Kerr]

I’ve done lots of renders now in 25fps,50fps,60fps and slowed down the camera move and it is still juddering badly.

I’ve been rendering uncompressed Animation QTs and some have been watching through Quicktime some ok but others getting 2 sec lag between judders mid-way through clips.

I’ve also tried H264 but no better

Could it be a quicktime data stream issue?

VLC shows a frozen screen with ‘error ocurred’ late video..more than 5 secs of lag..etc.

[Douglas Kerr]

Hey Adam,

thanks for getting back to me. I imported two RPF sequences at 50FPS and 25FPS into After Effects. The 25FPS looked just the same whilst the 50FPS looked better but not perfect. Yet I know I’ve had smoother camera fly pasts out of After Effects.

I tried adding motion blur in C4D but it seems to take alot of fine tuning.

It doesn’t seem to be a frame rate issue but that’s as far as I’ve got.

any ideas?

[Douglas Kerr]

Same problem but not the same solution for me.

I am trying to replace a light (holding 3D position data) with a .mov layer.

I’ve tried various file types but it won’t let me. Keeps throwing the error 26::335 layer does not have a source. This is apparenty standard practice for integrating 3DS or Cinema4D

Any ideas??

many thanks in advance.