Jerky crossfades.

[monkeytastic]

Most of the basic crossfades I do come out fine on the TV, but on occasion, they appear jerky. What am I doing wrong to get these jerky clips please?

[Devil]

Are these being viewed via DVD? If so, you are possibly encoding the MPEG-2 at too high a variable bitrate. Try 6000 kbit/s constant bitrate and see whether it still does it.

[monkeytastic]

Yes, viewed on DVD.

The thing is, most of the fades are fine - it's just a couple. There's no difference - they're all the same effect, just some work, some don't

[Devil]

With VBR, you can get differences and if the bitrate is too high because the particular transition has greater frame-to-frame changes than others, then the effect you mention can occur, depending also on the DVD player. Try as I mentioned above and report, please.

[monkeytastic]

Where do I find to change the variable bitrate? I can't find it.

[Gorf]

Is all your footage from the same type of source, e.g. DV video, or are you mixing video sources?

[monkeytastic]

Is all your footage from the same type of source, e.g. DV video, or are you mixing video sources?

It's all been vhs which has been played from a svhs player - through an analogue to digital convertor, then through firewire. Some of the footage was also transferred to digital 8, then through (as dropped frame were happening sometimes during direct capture). The jerky fades happen even when the 2 clips involved are captured the same way.

[sjj1805]

I see from your system specs that you appear to be using an external hard drive. I find these good for archiving but not much good for capturing due to the massive file sizes and the respective short time period involved.

Have you tried capturing to an internal hard drive?

[monkeytastic]

I see from your system specs that you appear to be using an external hard drive. I find these good for archiving but not much good for capturing due to the massive file sizes and the respective short time period involved.

Have you tried capturing to an internal hard drive?

Hi.

Due to problems with capturing directly to the external drive (kept disconnecting on large captures) I capture straight to the internal drive, then transfer via usb (don't get the drive disconnecting using this for transferring) then use the firewire again for editing.

The clips in question are only around 3 seconds each in length.

[Gorf]

I see from your system specs that you appear to be using an external hard drive. I find these good for archiving but not much good for capturing due to the massive file sizes and the respective short time period involved.

Have you tried capturing to an internal hard drive?

That won't affect crossfades.

Is all your footage from the same type of source, e.g. DV video, or are you mixing video sources?

It's all been vhs which has been played from a svhs player - through an analogue to digital convertor, then through firewire. Some of the footage was also transferred to digital 8, then through (as dropped frame were happening sometimes during direct capture). The jerky fades happen even when the 2 clips involved are captured the same way.

Try changing the project's field order. If that's the problem, I don't think simply changing it will solve all your problems, in fact I think they'll just move, but let us know if it affects the jerky crossfades and we'll take it from there...

[monkeytastic]

I saved the project to ***temp, deleted all non-irrelevant clips and duplicated one of the jerky fades onto the time line. I've tried changing to frame based/antiflicker/field a/field b etc. and still no joy.

To be honest, it's no real big deal, but would have been nice to get rid of these glitches.

[andymchere]

Do all your editing as usual then save it.

Then reopen it as a dvp file.

Now render the project.
It will take longer to render this way but all the dissolves etc will be smooth and not jerky.

You may need to render the audio as a sepertate file if you have alot of audio crossfades so the audio works correctly.

When you have rendered the video and audio, bring these together as a new video project on the timeline then render.

A bit of a pain but it works

Andy

[Gorf]

I've tried changing to frame based/antiflicker/field a/field b etc. and still no joy.

Changing the field order on the time line won't make any difference. If the problem is what I think it is, you need to do it at project level.

{Alt-Enter}
Edit...
"General" tab

For your existing projects, you'll also need to go through the clips and change the field order to match. New projects will be OK when you add clips if you set the project field order correctly.

[andymchere]

Hi Everyone.

Even though my last post above will work, I can now do it a different way and all it takes is one click of the mouse to rectify the problem instantly.

Takes about 1 second .

All works a dream now

Maybe I should become a moderator?

Andy

[Ron P.]

Hi Everyone.

Even though my last post above will work, I can now do it a different way and all it takes is one click of the mouse to rectify the problem instantly.

Takes about 1 second .

All works a dream now

Maybe I should become a moderator?

Andy

I'll ask again, would you like to share how and what steps you took to correct this? Others could benefit from this. I'll add at this time, a Moderator (of this board anyway) would not hesitate on providing fixes, workarounds, and solutions to others on the forums...