Ext. monitor preview jumps up and down : how to improve?

FuTz wrote on 4/11/2005, 8:05 AM
My ext. monitor preview jumps up and down unless I put the setting to Draft. As soon as I go with Preview quality (and better...), it jumps up and down when I pause to do my corrections.
Is there a way I could have at least my ext. preview with Preview setting without that jumping ?

(No , there's no mexican beans in the tube...)
(Yes, the TV's bolted to the table)

Comments

Grazie wrote on 4/11/2005, 9:12 AM


Never seen or heard of this before . . oh dear!

Have you tried connecting to a plain ole TV and see if you get the same? - This would eleminate cables and the possibility of the fault being with the s/w - ie pint toward the Monitor. Problem here is that if you DON'T get it on Draft the it might still be the S/W as you may not be seeing the anomaly . . . But I would still go ahead an test with another monitor . . yeah? Does that make sense?

Oh the otrher thing is that you migt want to de-docke the Preview window and dounble click so that you get the preview in its "natural" state previewing your work. . . jumping up and down . . nope I don't get that .. Could be a phase shift on the monitor . . horiz hold? . . .wierd one this!


. .the more I read and re-read whgat you say Futz, I think it maybe the way you have the Preview "relaxed" on the screen. . .

Grazie



Grazie wrote on 4/11/2005, 9:15 AM
Are these stills or videos? G
rs170a wrote on 4/11/2005, 9:15 AM
Have you turned "reduce interlace flicker" on?

Mike
FuTz wrote on 4/11/2005, 9:23 AM
This is video and when it's paused. Like when you place your keys.
I tried reduce interlace but no effect. It's like the image is "dancing. asometimes just a part of image, sometimes the whole. Sometimes not, but rarely ; except if I set the ext. preview to Draft of course.
Maybe the firewire ouput? Or the way it's "managed" by the comp' ?
jetdv wrote on 4/11/2005, 9:54 AM
That's typical of interlaced footage. You might try changing the project to progressive and see if that helps. (I would change it back before rendering, though)
johnmeyer wrote on 4/11/2005, 9:57 AM
That's what you get with interlaced footage in paused mode. You will only see it on fast motion scenes. You don't see it in draft mode because that only displays half the scan lines, effectively giving you a 320x240 progressive display. You will get this same thing if you pause a VCR on a fast scene.
FuTz wrote on 4/11/2005, 2:08 PM
Right on guys. Exactly the description of what happens... fast moving scenes... And that explains why Grazie doesn't get it ; )
Thanks a lot.