[Jesse Russell]

ah! good info! thanks! I’m updating my demo reel, and the source files in question are indeed a few years old. There’s a lot to know about formats and codecs, and if you don’t work with a variety of formats on a regular basis, it’s easy to get lost. Thanks for sharing!
-Jesse

[Jesse Russell]

Thanks anyone who read this and gave it some thought. I don’t know exactly what the problem was, but I found a hack to make it work. I imported into AE to see if I could get it to playback smoothly, changing frame rates and all that. No luck. I ended up rendering it out of Nuke as a quicktime movie with Animation compression at 24fps. Now it works just like all the rest of my source files. Beats me.
Thanks!
Jesse

[Jesse Russell]

Thanks Neil for your reply!

Yes, my timeline is animation.

My source files are animation compression. They all play back fine in the timeline. They also play fine (when rendered) with cropped slugs as letterboxes and text over the letterbox. They also play fine in quicktime when exported with quicktime conversion (also animation). I have two files in particular that don’t. As far as I know, those two files are identical compression, fps, and size (720×486). At least when imported into fcp they indicate identical format.

just to note, all the source files play fine in quicktime.

I’m under the impression that if you want smooth playback and you want to minimize degradation, you are to have your timeline be identical to what your source files are. Am I doing going about this all wrong?

Thanks again!
Jesse