motion 5: movements stutter

I had a similar issue and found the below lined article insightful. It goes into detail on the issues and limits with moving pixel based images in video and film.

http://endcrawl.com/blog/why-are-my-end-titles-jittering/

there are diff. reasons which can cause stutter on playback ...

• don't overwhelm your computer - if it's fullHD/1080/60p/proRes is lots of data ...

judge the smoothness eg in a 720/30p/h264 playout ....

check your hardware's set-up concerning 'speed'.... eg, people overestimate speed of wireless connections or tiny 2.5" HDDs

* the socalled angle-speed of objects: if btw two frames of your project the difference is too big to allow your eyes to 'smear' the two frames into a smooth movement, your brain notice a fast slide-show , no movie

use a higher frame rate = which is in most cases not allowed to stay within standards such as 24/25/30 fps

or

apply motion-blurr to your project.

Hi,

Having the same problems that you are describing above.

Just wondered if you ever got to the bottom of it? Would appreciate any knowledge!

Thanks,

Simon.

Thanks Peter.

Mine is simply just text that I'm trying to animate but it just stutters slightly in movement. Still awaiting answers to my post so I'll let you know if I hear anything of ineterest.

Thanks again.

Simon.

hi,

You may have stated thid already, sory if so. Are you seeing the stuttering in a rendered out file? When you view in Motion you need to render it to playback smoothly. Even then depending on the size fo your project and the amount of RAM you have, it may not playback at full frame rate. You can set it to play at draft resolution, although the edges wont be crisp, the animation should look smooth. Also turn of Motion blur, reflections, depth of field etc, when reviewing animation. If in doubt render it out and look at it in Quicktime.

hth

adam

Thanks for the help Adam but I still get the stutters on the QT files... which is strange.

hi,

do you want to send me your project, see if i can see whats up?

adam (at) moojoose dot com

Thats real decent of you Adam thanks. I'll drop you an email mate.

no problem, excpet of course I gave you the wrong wmail address doh

adam @ moojoose dot co dot uk

Sorry Adam I didnt notice this reply. I wondered why my email kept returning!

Thanks for the offer mate but I think I've actually figured the problem out.

It seems fine once its rendered in FCP.

Thanks again.

Simon.

i have the same problem. i have a video from a sony cam (1440x1080 anamorphic, 60i, some 12mb/s bitrate) which comes as .mts but i have tried to change container (for fcpx) or recode to all sorts of options: lower bitrate, to convert to progressive, to convert from 1.333 anamorph to square pixel (1920x1080) but none of those changes makes a difference in motion 5 really. i want to use it as background in motion 5 because i want to key some titles/text to the picture elements, you know, match move. motion 5 is not capable of smooth playback, and that's without any aditional layer, also all the things like motion blur or frame blending are off. the same video dropped on fcpx timeline plays fine there in realtime rendering, but in motion 5 i have to prerender some 400 frames in ram preview, those than play fine, but realtime ain't gonna happen.

this is all on core i7 ivy bridge, 8gb ram, radeon 6000 series card, sata 6g ssd.