Video editing

[Sotha]

I'm making my new mission briefing video with the kdenlive video editor.

 

I have a smoothly playing video clip that I have as a background and present some text on top of it. You might remember that from LQD briefing: the flame and text on front of it.

 

Now I have a strange problem:

when I render my video, the flame seems very choppy. I don't know why. The flame video is zoomed in with the zoom&pan function, so that it fills the screen.

 

Are there any proficient video editing folks here who might have a clue what is going on and how to fix it? My project has 30 fps and the flame video has the same framerate, so that cannot be it. I've also rendered the flame in the past (when I made LQD), and it did work back then, but now doesn't.

 

Thanks for tips!

[Sotha]

Ah, found it. As I wrote about framerates above, I double checked it. File properties say 30, but kdenlive properties say my flame clip has fps of 30.0001. Avconv:ing this to exact 30 fps made the problem go away.

I suppose the 30.0001 comes from the fact that I recorded the flame from TDM flame particles, and as we know TDM framerate is not exact 30.

 

Heh. Forward!

[Bikerdude]

If you need more help, Goldwell is a the genius behind the last two trailers for missions I have worked on.