photo montage: choppy video
 

Hey everyone... I just finished two photo montage videos in Final Cut Pro 5 and I'm getting some very slight choppiness that I cant get rid of. This is just the basic ken burns effect done with keyframing. I've tried de-interlace filters, flicker filters, shift fields filters, and slight gaussian blur filters. None of these completely get rid of it.

you should know that its nothing critical... just something that bugs me. I showed the video as is for a client today and she didn't notice, but it's still bothering me. I also noticed that its worse on white areas of the image.

I've done these videos before in FCP 4.5 and until now I had always managed to get them to look right, so I don't know what I'm doing differently now.

Hey,

Have you tried going to "Sequence > Settings > Video Processing > Motion Filtering Quality" and setting it to best. Might want to give it a shot.

Good Luck,
Matt Trubac

Hmm, that actually made it worse, and I'm not sure why. It's causing some weird dark areas that come and go in the images, and also some dark horizontal banding that also comes and goes.

Has anyone else had this sort of problem?