[Philip Hibberd]

Amateur mistake. I forgot I was in point mode.

[Philip Hibberd]

Solved. I changed the openGL settings to software shading.

Prefrences – Viewport – options

[Philip Hibberd]

Found it. Birthrate Renderer. How many times do I forget that one.

I needed to set the birthrate renderer to the amount I wanted visible in the final render.

sorry.

[Philip Hibberd]

I hear you. Upgrade time. I was exporting animation cus I needed an uncompressed format to transfer to AFX on a PC. I could have exported image sequence I guess.
The PC doesn’t have quicktime pro so no sony HDV 50i codec. I have found an older QT version to play sony HDV 50i on the pc but AFX hates that version of QT (random white frames in any export)

[Philip Hibberd]

Thanks for the reply.
No I haven’t experienced this with other formats, but I mainly work in that format. My first thought was GOP aswell but I can’t see why only the export quicktime conversion tool would do this and not compressor.
It’s done it a few times on 30 sec clips and some longer clips. One occasion it added a few frames just before a transition (fade to black using opacity handles)

Any suggestions before I boycott this tool and just use good ole compressor.

[Philip Hibberd]

change the scratch disk back to what it was when you captured that footage.

[Philip Hibberd]

never mind, I pulled my thumb out of my ass and did a search. Ken Weiss advice might be right.

[Philip Hibberd]

I did that with some 4:3 footage that had black bar at the top. I put it into a 16:9 sequence and enlarged it until the bars weren’t visible. But that footage stutters when I burnt it to DVD and watched it on a TV. I read somewhere that blowing up footage to a higher res than it was recorded can cause problems.