[Jeanna Olson]

I’ve had a Jitter problem with most of the movies done for a class that had very little FCP instruction, so I’m coming from a total novice standpoint. The instructor I asked had no idea what was causing the problem, but another student had “jitter” issues as well.
A jitter or shake or repeat or whatever you want to call it occurs when I use Transitions (for some clips but not for others––doesn’t seem to be a problem w/the length or stacking of the clips); when using the Text Generator for Titles, when bringing in a clip I’d converted the same way for another project (not using transitions, just hard cuts), and nesting sequences. I’ve never gotten the shakes when using an imported image and it’s usually okay for the longer clips, but not always, and much shorter clips are fine while longer ones jitter.
The only solution I found so far was unnesting sequences (even though the instructor said this was not possible). I just put the clips into a new sequence, rebuilding it as one sequence.
This solved every problem I had with that five minute and 19 second movie, but on the next project it was the same thing all over, using transitions with clips l(onger than ones I’d no problem with in the other movie) got the jitters.
I’m using subclips for all sequences, not nesting anything, and am being very stingy with transitions for this short project. But it gets the “jitters” (the second clip of the two shakes) just the same.
I too get the same message as Akin on every project asking to change the sequence settings to match the clip settings, and then selecting “ok.” This should now make my sequence and clips the same codecs or whatever mismatched setting or source code or whatever is being detected, correct?
Any kind of suggestion would be appreciated. The class is over, but I’m still working out unanswered questions, and this is the biggest one that ate up the most time and caused the most frustration.