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Graham18148187
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March 2, 2019
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LR Slideshow pictures shimmering when playing

  • March 2, 2019
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I created a new slideshow with 30 pictures, then added music and all went fine. The preview was really good, so I saved slide show to desktop to play. I started to play the file when I noticed that there seemed to be a lot of shimmering and slight movement in certain parts of the pictures. Does anyone have any idea what this is all about.

Thanks, Graham

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    Jao vdLCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 2, 2019

    My guess is that the root cause here is the rather unintelligent way Lightroom encodes these videos. It uses far too high bitrates which causes these videos to excessively flicker and stutter in the transitions. There is no control over this unfortunately. The problem is remedied by reencoding the exported video (which is why it looks good playing from the dropbox site which reencodes it at lower bitrate for you for the preview). I always reencode slideshows from Lightroom because of this. I simply use Adobes media encoder which you have if you have the full CC subscription or the freeware/open source handbrake. Apple's quicktime also does a good (and extremely fast) job at this. All of these fix this issue. This is a very longstanding issue and I have given up complaining about it.

      grahamb78095298
      grahamb78095298
      Participant
      March 5, 2019

      Thanks, problem fixed, Adobe media encoder did the trick. Thanks everyone

      cmgap
      Community Expert
      cmgapCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      March 2, 2019

      What OS are you on? Do you have another device that you can test the slide show on?

      grahamb78095298
      grahamb78095298
      Participant
      March 2, 2019

      Hi, I am on Microsoft and I have tried VLC, Windows Media player

      johnrellis
      johnrellis
      Legend
      March 2, 2019

      If you upload a sample saved slideshow with these problems to Dropbox or similar and post the sharing link here, we can see if the problems occur on other machines. That would indicate whether the problem is with video playback on your computer.

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