Video transition is making second clip "hiccup"

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Video transition is making second clip "hiccup"

I have two clips that I need to tie together. One is straight HD footage with no effects. The other is a still image that has the ripple effect applied and faded out. They both function perfectly until I try to link them with a video effect (any effect, but in this case I want to use the band slide). Once the effect is applied, the still image with the effect does this wierd "hiccup" in the first few frames. I have gone into the motion and filters tab and cannot find the culprit. Why does it only happen with the effect? Can anyone please help?

powermac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.7), FCE 3.5.1

Posted on Apr 1, 2007 7:41 PM

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 1, 2007 8:03 PM in response to Julie Cannon

Are you looking at the rendered output? Try setting your Canvas to 100% and see how it looks. It sounds like there's a problem with the interlacing shifting. This can be caused by motion effects as well as my the contents of still image itself depending on its size and what's being done to it in FCE.

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Apr 1, 2007 8:34 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Yes, I am looking at the rendered output. I watched it with the canvas at 100%, same thing. Is there anything I can do if it's an interlacing shift issue? Do I have to abandon the transition?

The still image is a jpeg (792.2k). I have applied the ripple filter that I am phasing out as it progresses (so the ripples distort initially and then fade to nothing). Any help you can provide would be so appreciated. Thanks.

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Julie Cannon Author

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Apr 1, 2007 8:43 PM in response to Julie Cannon

I just found that I can avoid the hiccup if I don't center the transition, but rather let it start on the edit. This works for now, but any help in dealing with the porperly would be great. Thanks.

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 1, 2007 8:52 PM in response to Julie Cannon

What's the size of the image in pixels? That's what counts. If you do a start on edit transition the shift is happening on the first frame of the still when it's essentially invisible.

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Julie Cannon Author

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Apr 2, 2007 7:09 AM in response to Tom Wolsky

Hi, the image is 1661x1660. is that the info you need? Is this my problem?

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 2, 2007 9:23 AM in response to Julie Cannon

That's pretty big. Plus it's almost square, which means it doesn't fit into the 4:3 aspect properly. You're scaling it in FCE. If you can it would be better to make the image conform to the frame size and aspect ratio before you bring it into FCE.

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Julie Cannon Author

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Apr 2, 2007 1:03 PM in response to Tom Wolsky

Is that a way to do I do that without losing any of the image? If so, how? Thanks.

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Tom Wolsky

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Apr 2, 2007 5:07 PM in response to Julie Cannon

The screen is a 4:3 rectangle. The image is square. You can either cut the image or have a border around it.

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