Need help fixing choppy/jumpy video

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ronb_2008

Newbie Joined: Nov 06, 2016 16:33 Messages: 2 Offline

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May 06, 2019 20:59

Hello all,

I'm really hoping someone can help me with this issue, I've been dealing with it for a while now. Basically, I use Powerdirector 17 (and 16 before that) to edit my team's flag football videos by cutting out the nonsense in between plays to produce an ~8-10 minute video instead of having a 50 minute video. The problem I'm having is at certain spots depending on where I split the clip, the video is extremely choppy. I attached a link to a short video showing 3 plays, the first and third are perfectly fine, but the one in the middle is very choppy (or jumpy). The audio plays just fine, it's the video that is the issue. This happens in preview mode as well as when the video is produced.

https://youtu.be/Hvg_K0Btl-0

Additionally, the jumpyness seems to go away if I make the video shorter or longer, and I attached a link for another short video showing that as well.

https://youtu.be/xynWRl9iK8Y

Like I mentioned, I'm using Powerdirector 17, but I had this issue on 16 as well. I'm recording the video with my iPhone 8 at 60 fps. This issue occurs when I'm editing the standard MOV as well as if I convert to an MP4. Below are the specs for the computer I'm using:

Processor: Intel Core i7-6700 CPU @ 3.40 GHz

Ram: 16 GB

Boot drive (local C): 120 GB--49.5 GB free (Samsung SSD 750 EVO)

Source drive (D): 2 TB--1.74 TB free (Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 3.5" 7200RPM)

Destination drive (E): 2 TB--1.23 TB free (Hitachi - Ultrastar 7K3000 3.5" 7200RPM)

Motherboard: MSI - Z170A SLI PLUS ATX LGA1151

OS: Windows 10

Graphics card: Intel HD Graphics 530

If anyone could help me solve this issue I would be so grateful. I'm not sure if this is a hardware or software issue, so I'd appreciate any input. Thank you all so much in advance!

optodata

Senior Contributor Location: California, USA Joined: Sep 16, 2011 16:04 Messages: 8630 Offline

May 06, 2019 21:33

Sorry to hear about the issues you're having. Since the problem occurs in both when previewing on the timeline and in the produced video, I think this is either an issue with your clips or with a setting in PD. Converting the clips to MP4 was a good thing to try, but it's still possible that the reencoded clips have something off about them.

A very high bitrate and/or a variable frame rate come to mind as far as clip issues go, as does a problem with your video driver or using hardware/OpenCL acceleration on the PD/system side.

Can you upload one of your original clips to a cloud folder and paste the link to it here? Also, review the steps in the read Me Before Posting sticky thread and attach a screen shot showing PD's version number along with the DxDiag test results.

Finally, please tell us what your project's frame rate is set to, and attach a screenshot of the Produce room showing which output profile you've used. It might sound like a lot of work, but that's pretty much the minimum level of detail needed to get started on figuring this out...