[William Busby]

Export QT Ref out of MC with RGB levels. Since you’re using AME for encoding use the Vimeo 720p preset. More than just decent quality and file size is drastically reduced.

[William Busby]

😀 Man… aren’t we a piece of work. I hear ya! Forced an all nighter trying to get caught up in en edit. Think I’ll be dreading it soon :-

[William Busby]

Thank you for the quick reply and info, Tim. Go to bed! 🙂

Sleepy Regards,
Bill

[William Busby]

happy to help. glad you got it working

[William Busby]

sorry… I should have been a bit more clear.

I’m on PC and use the number keys which default to:

1 – ten frames back
2 – ten frames forward
3 – one frame back
4 – one frame forward

It helps if you have the mark in & mark out columns visible so you can see your I/O points are registering.

[William Busby]

the only way I know of to do what you want:

1. import your stills to it’s own bin (forget the duration)
2. go into Script View
3. select all the clips
4. mark an in point
5. go forward 1 or 2 frames… mark an out point

Now all of your stills should have the same duration (which ever you chose (1 frame or 2 frames). Edit them into a sequence… done!

[William Busby]

meh… never mind :- It seems it only showed a few added underscore extensions in the pre-encode stage. After the encode was done all files have the _1 extension. Strange still but now I know 😀

[William Busby]

Thanks Peter. I got through it doing something similar to what you had suggested.

I’ve noticed the 1 repeat frame you mention only in 1080i & 60i projects before and it always seems to be on the 14th or 15th frame (can’t recall). However, I just tried a 50% render on different 23.98 clip as a test and it was smooth but saw that 1 repeat frame as well but it repeats twice.

There must be something funky with the original clip that consistently repeated every 7th frame in the render I mentioned.

[William Busby]

If Fluidmotion presents too many artifacts at certain points what I do is use BCC’s Optical Flow and set 4 keyframes (2 before, 2 after… maybe 5 frames apart) before and after the artifact section/s and adjust the “Optical Flow Mix” to 25 (default is 100) for the “inside” keyframes. Works fairly well and takes no time to adjust.

[William Busby]

At first before even looking at these I thought it’s gotta be some rolling shutter bit… but after watching both all I can ask is what either of you are looking at? They seem fine to me. It’s called perspective. Something you won’t get by panning (these are not pans at all) or zooming. This is why people use sliders, to get that perspective movement. Just go with it. They’re fine.

*edit* On second look full screen I see it now. Seems his slider either is sticking a bit and/or the head/tripod combination is either poor or not properly mounted which in turn cause slight shaking… which may cause some rolling shutter mess.