[Hadaska Schlussel]

Thanks Rafael,

the compressor is HDV 1080p25

I exported to a HD 1920x 1080 ProRess 422 movie
and also added motion blur, it looks a little bit better,
but still wavy.

How do I make it look smooth?

[Hadaska Schlussel]

Sorry, might look like a silly question, but
what about your hardware?

What footage format are you using? On what type of hard disk?
Maybe thats Where it’s going wrong?
have you tried working with your rushes on a different hard disk?

If you’re using the activity monitor try monitoring CPU activity when your footage is playing.

Another option, we’re in the Voodoo phase, I had once a playback problem, it got just a little bit out of sync, started every clip in slow motion, and then continued in the right pace but out of sync.
Anyway, my solution was to erase my FCP personal settings, and restart and it worked for a while.

But I have to admit this is not a long term solution, the problem comes and goes. To solve it I need a faster hard disk.

Sorry I can’t do more.

[Hadaska Schlussel]

Hi Grant,

I have some suggestions to what might have go wrong.
I’m not yet familiar with the FCPX so I can’t tell if this is what causing the problem.
What I Think you should do is to check your sequence settings for the audio, and your clips audio properties. From my experience working with DSLR Footage, sometimes the audio can be recorded at 24bit and don’t mach the sequence settings. This can cause this kind of problems.
In this case just change your sequence settings so it will fit, and export as you wish afterwords.

Once I got some footage from a JVC Z7 that has some weird setting for the audio bit rate, it was something called flow point, I think, and FCP didn’t work with that at all. Then I exported again some clips and rendered one by one some others. Very exhausting, but I didn’t find another way.

I hope some of this will help you.

[Hadaska Schlussel]

You can always export a quick time movie direct from FCP
and then convert it in DVD Studio Pro to HD DVD.