Animation made in after effects is not smooth

Question

Hello!

i make a small animation in after, but from some reason, its wierd and flickery. Looks jumpy, and i cant figure out why.

I tried to apply motion blur, tried to play with the frame rate, but it dosent seem to solve the problem.

Byron Cortez · Accepted Answer

Oh ok, you mean that kind of flicker when the graph's speed increases. That is normal and you may notice it more if you have fewer frames per second. And yes, with the motion blur you manage to hide that a bit.

Regards!

Kristian Gabriel · Answer

LIke Bryon said, managing motion blur can be amazing. Controlling the native motion blur exists in your COMPOSITION SETTINGS window under the ADVANCED tab. Here is a possible list of solutions to this issue:

#1 - Don't export directly to H.264 with animated media. Everyone does it--and your stuff can look good--but it is a bad, bad habit. This alone can directly contribute to motion issues, artifacting and other compression based issues. You should be exporting your animation to a lossless codec or a codec with "less" compression. Output to Animation, Prores, DNxHD/HR, or Cineform as a High-Bitrate Master file and then use that flattened file to re-encode to H.264 or any other compressed file you wish. Even if don't notice a huge difference for some projects--this workflow solves many, many quality issues including the ones you are describing.

#2 - If you are using any time-remapping and/or mixing media with different framerate--Frame Blending or Optical Flow can solve some issues (then again, they can add other issues).

#3 - Video Card Issues - Some video cards have weaknesses when outputting certain types of animation or media. Have you tried outputting on another computer with a different video card? Problems with motion can also be due to a card that hasn't been updated. On the flip side, it could also be due to a card that has been updated and you may need to roll your card drivers back to an earlier version to fix it.

#4 - You have already been experimenting with Frame Rates changes--however, higher framerates can solve some motion issues because there are more frames per second to interpret the motion.

#5 - Problem like this can be caused by corrupted frames and cached media that AE outputs regardless of settings. These things are not supposed to affect final output but we've had really weird things happen. If you suspect something like this, use EDIT > PURGE > ALL MEMORY & DISK CACHE

Anyways, good luck!

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