[Stephanie Hernstadt]

I’ve been combing these forums and felt this was the best thread on which to address my question.

I use AE as needed for simple effects, but am primarily a film and video editor on FCP and AVID. I wanted to help a friend and thought I could overcome FCP’s notorious credit roll jitters by doing it in AE for her, but am running into the same issues as are described here: Looks great but for the random/not so random stutters every 5 or 10 seconds.

I created a text box, and have animated the box to go from below the bottom of the frame slowly up to the top and beyond out of frame (and it happens at about 9 seconds from bottom to top, so the roll isn’t that fast or long). The text looks clean, has no jagged edges, and 2 psd logos follow correctly, the last text in a larger font size lands in center of frame for the end – all look correct. My ONLY complaint is about the playback stutter, which is frustrating to all parties. I see it when playing back my rendered QT movie.

My project is 1920×1080 Apple ProRes 422 (HQ) 29.97fps – one minute end credit roll (bottom to top of frame), outputting with audio (which isn’t necessary for the final output).
I’m running AE v8.0.2 on my 2x3GHz Quad_core Intel Xeon Mac Tower, Mac OS X 10.4.11, 5GB of memory. I ONLY have a computer monitor, no external monitor attached via a video card to view the movie.

Please help! And if you could explain what “expression” is and how to use it if that’s the answer, that’d be GREAT!