[Lillian Young]

Thanks – I converted all clips, re-loaded one and it’s still stuttering during playback, which makes editing difficult.

Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

e.g. I put a mov clip on the timeline, pres the space bar to play it. It plays, then near the end skips.

I’ve tried 3 different settings under RT
Full Quality, Use Playback Settings and Play Base Layer Only

Footage:
MOV
Compression: None
1280×720

Mac Pro – OS X Leopard

***UPDATE***

I changed the None compression to ProRes 422, and made sure that the sequence in FCP was ProRes 422. This seems to work with one small clip, meaning that now, the clip plays back smoothly and exports smoothly.

I’m going to re-export the other clips the same way.

[Lillian Young]

Perfect. The “In some cases, the Auto Bezier spatial interpolation for Position keyframes can cause undesired back-and-forth (boomerang) motion between two keyframes with equal values. In such a case, you can change the earlier keyframe to use Hold interpolation or change both keyframes to use Linear interpolation.” explanation solved it.

Thank you both!

[Lillian Young]

Thanks to both of you. I just animated it manually, but now it ust looks like a series of squares. I’m trying to create this effect

https://artofthetitle.com/media/film/2008/mentiras_piadosas_480p.html

I’ll start another thread in AE to inquire.

[Lillian Young]

Guidelines, not layers.

[Lillian Young]

I figured it out. CleanApp didn’t uninstall the preferences. In Library>Preferences, I trashed the full MAXON folder. Then I had to restart. That cleaned all instances of the app so that I could do a clean install.

[Lillian Young]

Ah, I see. Thanks again, Juan. I lowered the screen resolution, which only allows part of the web page screen, and will mean a lot of scrolling, but after I capture and return the screen to full resolution, it looks crisp.

I guess that ideally, I’d like to capture at full screen using ScreenFlow, then export to specs, but as you stated, that doesn’t really work.

I appreciate your input and will use your suggestions to find the perfect formula. Oh…and I’ll probably create for 16:9.

[Lillian Young]

Thanks for your response. I’m not sure I understand completely, so excuse me for stupid questions in advance 🙂

I’m capturing the full screen with ScreenFlow, then exporting from ScreenFlow at 720×480. If I had the option of only making a data DVD, I would certainly opt for that because the capture would be at full resolution — ideal, large, great for presentation. But I’m being asked to burn it to a DVD, so I must find a way.

So far, I’ve done several tests. This seems to be working:

Capture full screen (with ScreenFlow)
Export (from SF) at 720×480
Import into DVD Studio Pro
In simulation (within DVD SP), it looks just like the capture without distortion.

I’ll then need to test it on actual TV screens.

If there’s a better way, I’m open to it. Thanks again.

[Lillian Young]

Hey Dave 🙂

I figured out that I’d need to use a a track matte (not my area of expertise), but I was fiddling with the alpha matte.

Your suggestion resolved it. Thanks a million!!

[Lillian Young]

ROTFL!!!! I love it! I’m still a Freelancer, so they say “Jump,” and I just ask, “How high?”

[Lillian Young]

“…you should probably precomp all the footage with just the remove grain effect, then render out and with the choice “replace footage”. If there are changes you won’t be re-rendering the remove grain effect.”

You’re right, John. In fact, I did that with one clip while testing it.