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[John Caballero]

Philip Bloom's latest footage from Dublin was showing that problem. I downloaded the QuickTime version and just like magic it wasn't there. the internet is a wonderful thing but it also has its little problems and we all should be aware of that.

 

[roxics]

Roxics - Download VLC VideoLan Video Player, should fix that for you.

I've got VLC. I'm on my work machine. Video is what I do for a living. But VLC is still showing the same problem.

However I did convert about 30 seconds to NTSC Widescreen DV AVI and the problem disappeared. So it's definitely a playback issue with formats that don't use all real frames.

 

[Kholi]

Strange. I used VLC and it disappeared on my laptop. It's generally a hardware and software issue. As in quicktime just sucks for video playback in general.

 

[sblfilms]

Maybe you need to replace the codec with a newer or older version. Playing in VLC both on Windows 7 and Snow Leopard fixed the shearing that was going on in QT on both platforms as well. Playing through my PS3 also resulted in no shearing. Peculiar!

 

[roxics]

Strange. I used VLC and it disappeared on my laptop. It's generally a hardware and software issue. As in quicktime just sucks for video playback in general.

Turns out my VLC was old. 0.94 I just updated to 1.01 and it plays it back just fine without the shearing. I didn't realize VLC got better. For a while there it was only getting worse on Windows.

 

[Michael Olsen]

Mystery solved!

 

[Ian-T]

Turns out my VLC was old. 0.94 I just updated to 1.01 and it plays it back just fine without the shearing. I didn't realize VLC got better.

What the P-Funk!!!??? Snap...thanks to this thread I realize that my VLC is way out of date. I got .8.6a. No wonder it was pissin me off. Oh well....I'm off to upgrade.

 

[sblfilms]

Jeez fellas, gotta keep the software up to date.

 

[Isaac_Brody]

Amateurs.

 

[mattsand]

vlc, that looks like quicktime player, or did you skin it? are you sure this isn't a sync issue with your monitor? do you have multiple monitors with different refresh? have you disabled vsync to hunt better benchmark scores by any chance?

EDIT: should have read the last page i guess, but my comment could still be interesting for reference

 

[Greypawn Films]

So it's safe to say that once you burn footage to a DVD the shearing disappears right?

 

[ydgmdlu]

Well, the problem was never with the footage in the first place. So yes.