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Animation is not smooth

PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 8:14 pm
by Saif El-Deen Essam
Hello everyone, I managed to make my first motion graphics video with Fusion (well, it's just 4 sec lol) and there is something I can't figure, as you can see here:
Circles go smooth (on scaling up) until the orange/brown circle then it's like there is cutting/frame drop happening then it's smooth again on way back.
I checked everything, no irregular/messed curves in spline or timeline.

Re: Animation is not smooth

PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 4:17 am
by Tanawat Wattanachinda
Fast moving object + not enough FPS + no motion blur? maybe?

Re: Animation is not smooth

PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 9:20 am
by Wouter Verwijlen
I'm not 100% sure, but it might be an optical illusion. If you change the colors of the white, orange and brown circle to colors that are more in line with the others then you'll see less of this 'stop and go' effect.

A second reason might be that the larger circles need an extra frame or two to grow.

Third reason might be that the moment the orange circle appears, the circle in the middle stops growing (and continues to decrease in size after that turning point). So the middle one basically doesn't move at all at that point, which might cause the effect.

Anyway, I'm not sure it has anything to do with Fusion, although these are all guesses and maybe there's an animator here who can shed some light on this.

Re: Animation is not smooth

PostPosted: Wed Sep 20, 2017 5:22 pm
by Saif El-Deen Essam
Tanawat Wattanachinda wrote:Fast moving object + not enough FPS + no motion blur? maybe?

Do you mean the frame rate in the Saver node? It is set on 30. And what do you mean by motion blur, how is it done?

Wouter Verwijlen wrote:I'm not 100% sure, but it might be an optical illusion. If you change the colors of the white, orange and brown circle to colors that are more in line with the others then you'll see less of this 'stop and go' effect.

A second reason might be that the larger circles need an extra frame or two to grow.

Third reason might be that the moment the orange circle appears, the circle in the middle stops growing (and continues to decrease in size after that turning point). So the middle one basically doesn't move at all at that point, which might cause the effect.

Anyway, I'm not sure it has anything to do with Fusion, although these are all guesses and maybe there's an animator here who can shed some light on this.

I tried changing colors to more matching ones and it did not help. Anyways I will try increasing frames for brown and orange circles.

Re: Animation is not smooth

PostPosted: Tue Oct 10, 2017 12:18 pm
by Mark Spink
Saif El-Deen Essam wrote:Do you mean the frame rate in the Saver node? It is set on 30. And what do you mean by motion blur, how is it done?


I think you set the frame rate in the Preferences for the flow, the saver FPS will just affect the metadata (I believe, don't hold me to this!).
i.e. if you chose 30FPS in the saver, for a flow that's set in Prefs as 24FPS it will probably render out as 24FPS, but playback faster than it should at 30FPS.

WRT motion blur if the flow's in 2D then most of the tools have the motion blur settings in what used to be the 'nuke' tab (eg. the 3rd tab in a Background tool), it's in the same tab in the 3D renderer tool as well.

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Cheers
Mark

Re: Animation is not smooth

PostPosted: Wed Nov 08, 2017 3:02 pm
by Ivan Ivanov
Mark Spink wrote:
I think you set the frame rate in the Preferences for the flow, the saver FPS will just affect the metadata (I believe, don't hold me to this!).
i.e. if you chose 30FPS in the saver, for a flow that's set in Prefs as 24FPS it will probably render out as 24FPS, but playback faster than it should at 30FPS.
Mark


Nope. The comp preferences default the newly added tools, but if you manually change the fps (or whatever feature actually) for a saver/other tool it will render the way you've set it manually.