Fixing A Jerky Movie - Any App ?

[Debbie]

Hi All,

I have a slightly jerky movie I would like to correct. Is there an applicatin that could do
this ?

[Brian Ellis]

Whadja mean by jerky? Could be camera shake, could be wrong field settings, could be from a poor film camera, could be from onanism!

[Dr Mordrid]

Sounds like the video has dropped frames, a common situation, which is a job for Dynapel's Motion Perfect.

MP analyzes the clip and creates MPEG-style "P" frames to fill the gaps. P frames are synthetic and calculated from the previous and next 'real' frames using motion vectors. It is also great at creating slow and fast motion sequences.

Home: http://www.dynapel.com/index.shtml

Browse to: /Products/Video Editing/Motion Perfect

MotionPerfect’s most important functions are:

* Filling gaps in video by insertion of new interpolated frames
* Generation of high quality slow and fast motion video
* Change and conversion of frame rates
* Analysis of the internal components of an AVI video file to display dropped frames and existing gaps in the video
* Elimination of undesired sequences
* Change of compression
* Side-by-side view to compare original and edited video

[Jon P. Inghram]

If it's camera shake you might try Deshaker, a free plugin for VirtualDub. It does a pretty good job although you've got to fiddle around with it's various settings to get good results.

[Jerry Jones]

There's also an "ANTI-SHAKE" filter in Ulead VideoStudio 10+:

http://tinyurl.com/nt9c5

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Dr Mordrid]

It's also in MSPro8

[Brian Ellis]

The best deshaker I've tried is SteadyHand.

[Dr Mordrid]

SteadyHand is another Dynapel product.

[Debbie]

Sorry guys for the delay in responce. Catastrophic problems, I overwrote the booting
sector of my Sat. receiver trying to feed in new keys.

The jerky movment is in a converted movie from, DVD to DivX. I have'nt done the job
myself so I can't tell what's in it. It could be anything. MotionPerfect could perhaps do
the job.

[Nowhere]

So you mean that file/movie has "jerky" section, lasting few seconds? (at least...that's what I thought it was all about, so now sticking to it ) Usually in scenes with lots of camera movement... (personally I suspect it's a problem with improperly encoded file/problems in the encider itself).

So...I suspect you don't want to do lots of editing, you just want to watch the movie in best way possible.
From my experience, this is practically impossible to eliminate totally, but can be minimised - in my case the "jerking" is smallest when I use ffdhshow decoder (choose one with highest SSE your CPU supports) with all post-processing filters disabled.

[Debbie]

Well I think there isn't much to do about it. It is not all that annoying to watch and only
on fast action scenes that it would be really noticeable. I am of the opinion that whatever
I do to the movie, it can only decrease the quality by further processing.