Character Animator puppet momentarily flinches

Playback mode is an approximation of the final video (recording you will notice takes longer). So you get little artifacts like this occurring. I suspect normally movements are averaged over previous and upcoming frames to smooth things out, but when starting it has no past to smooth from so it does more of a jump.

Gravity/dangles also come into this. E.g. at the start of a scene, even when recorded, hair might start in its default position but it will bounce a little bit at the start as gravity reaches steady state on the hair. So I sometimes trim out the start of a scene to eliminate this physics hair bounce.

CPU/disk/memory probably do influence it. I think playback says "we have to get the result on time! take short cuts to get there!" where as the final render says "work it out correctly - we don't have to show the results in real time, so take as much time as you want". That is why the final render is much slower than playback.

Hi Mac. I don't have a solutution, but could I suggest:

1. Not enought memory and CH is gasping for breath?

2. Processing power? Not enough?

3. Are you working on a internal HD or over a network?

4. God forbid, a glitch in CH?

5. Cold restart of your system and the problem remains?

6. This has just started cropping up?

Well, this is where I would start looking. But then, I don't know any better.

Be well.