Choppy footage

JackCarter wrote on 4/8/2018, 6:12 PM

Hi, I'm filming with P3P drone and have bit of a problem with rendering some of the footage. Sometimes it just looks choppy (usually when looking top down and ascending, or when panning ). I shoot mostly in 2.7 k at 25 fps. Is that to be expected and is there a way to make it smoother ? I edit videos in Vegas pro 15, what would be best setting for rendering in 1920 ? Thank you

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john_dennis wrote on 4/8/2018, 7:16 PM

The shutter speed of your camera can affect the smoothness of your video. If you can change it, that may be the best approach. After the fact, consider adding Motion Blur in Vegas Pro. Search for "motion blur" in the Vegas Pro 15 manual or start on page 244. 

JackCarter wrote on 4/8/2018, 7:25 PM

Shutter speed was 1/50, since I was on 25 fps. Just checked, already have Gaussian checked... Hope there is some addiotional method to make it smoother...

john_dennis wrote on 4/8/2018, 7:30 PM

Thank Robert Grant (farss) and all the ones that came before me.

fr0sty wrote on 4/9/2018, 12:59 AM

Disable resampling, it has a tendency to make video choppy.

Systems:

Desktop

AMD Ryzen 7 1800x 8 core 16 thread at stock speed

64GB 3000mhz DDR4

Geforce RTX 3090

Windows 10

Laptop:

ASUS Zenbook Pro Duo 32GB (9980HK CPU, RTX 2060 GPU, dual 4K touch screens, main one OLED HDR)

JackCarter wrote on 4/9/2018, 4:36 AM

Thank you, john_ :-)

@frOsty thanks, I did disable it already... now thinking it seems I was just moving too fast... looks like too much info and changes to process for the camera ( although then I wonder how do they film fast desending shots in movies ).

I tried speeding up the footage, hoping it will ' squeeze in ' more frames to sec., thus making it smoother... no luck there...

john_dennis wrote on 4/9/2018, 9:54 AM

If you want to share a few seconds of the problem source material on a cloud disk and post the download link here, someone may have a different and better solution.

JackCarter wrote on 4/9/2018, 3:46 PM

I'd be glad to share some footage, but am not on the cloud. Any other way ?

NickHope wrote on 4/10/2018, 1:57 AM

I'd be glad to share some footage, but am not on the cloud. Any other way ?

Take a look at mega.nz, wetransfer.com or mediafire.com. But I suspect you would need to make an account to upload files.

JackCarter wrote on 4/10/2018, 4:29 PM

 

Take a look at mega.nz, wetransfer.com or mediafire.com. But I suspect you would need to make an account to upload files.

I'm using wetransfer for mailing, will look into that...