Zooming not smooth

[vsthem]

I have a video I need to put together, and writing music to it, so I thought I'd try to use the reaper video editor for the first time. I love everything I've poked around with, except for when I tried to zoom in on a still image. The result was not a smooth zoom in, but one with lots of micro stops and starts.

Google lead me to some older threads complaining about this problem, but I wanted to check in here and see if there were any workarounds that have come about, or if there was any hope that the devs might work on this. If this was fixed, I could probably switch to reaper for all my video stuff, which would be amazing.

Thanks all!

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by vsthem

I have a video I need to put together, and writing music to it, so I thought I'd try to use the reaper video editor for the first time. I love everything I've poked around with, except for when I tried to zoom in on a still image. The result was not a smooth zoom in, but one with lots of micro stops and starts.

Google lead me to some older threads complaining about this problem, but I wanted to check in here and see if there were any workarounds that have come about, or if there was any hope that the devs might work on this. If this was fixed, I could probably switch to reaper for all my video stuff, which would be amazing.

Thanks all!

I came accross that problem in the past and it´s related to rounding issues with the gfx_blit() function and there is a fix for that. Which preset(s) are you using?

[vsthem]

Basic Helpers: Track opacity/zoom/pan

Are there better ones to use for this function?

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by vsthem

Basic Helpers: Track opacity/zoom/pan

Are there better ones to use for this function?

Yes and no, it depends heavily on the context of use. Assuming that your are not rotating the image, here is a patched version of the preset. Let me know if this works for you. Just copy and paste this code over the existing one (and save! ctrl-s).

// Track opacity/zoom/pan
//  **** patched for "smoothness"
//@param1:opacity 'opacity' 1
//@param2:zoom 'zoom' 0 -10 10 0
//@param3:xoffs 'X offset' 0 -1 1 0
//@param4:yoffs 'Y offset' 0 -1 1 0
//@param5:rotate 'rotate' 0 -360 360 0 1
//@param7:filter 'filter' 0 0 1 0.5 1
//@param8:clear 'clear bg' 1 0 1 0.5 1
//@param9:force_w 'force width' 0 0 2600 1024 2
//@param10:force_h 'force height' 0 0 2600 1024 2
//@param11:paspect 'preserve aspect' 1 0 1 0.5 1

function round(v)((v+0.5)|0);
function round2(v)(((v+1)>>1)<<1);

(bg_img=input_ismaster() ? -2 : input_track(0)) ? (
  force_w &= -2; force_h &= -2;
  force_w && !force_h ? force_h = (force_w * project_h / project_w)&-2;
  force_h && !force_w ? force_w = (force_h * project_w / project_h)&-2;
  force_w>0 && force_h>0 ? ( project_w=force_w; project_h=force_h );

  w = opacity < 0.01 ? 0 : opacity > 0.99 ? 1 : opacity;
  gfx_a2=0;
  gfx_blit((w < 1 || clear < 0.5) ? bg_img : -2,1);

  w > 0 ? (
    gfx_mode = filter>0.5 ? 256 : 0;
    gfx_a=w;
    z = 10^(zoom/10);
    dw = (project_w*z)&-2;
    dh = (project_h*z)&-2;
    x = (project_w - dw + xoffs*(project_w+dw))*.5;
    y = (project_h - dh + yoffs*(project_h+dh))*.5;
                                                   // *** patch is here ***
    rotate == 0 ? gfx_blit(0,paspect, round(x),round(y),round2(dw),round2(dh)) : (
      input_info(0,srcw,srch);
      sc=2.0; sc2=sc*.5 - 0.5;
      gfx_rotoblit(0,rotate*$pi/180,(x-dw*sc2)|0,(y-dh*sc2)|0,dw*sc,dh*sc, -srcw*sc2, -srch*sc2, srcw*sc, srch*sc);
    );
  );
);

[vsthem]

So much better! Amazing! Thank you!

[Winfield]

I could of course copy paste the script above, but am wondering how many of my other presets that should be updated.

Are these (or any) presets updated with Reaper?

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by Winfield

I could of course copy paste the script above, but am wondering how many of my other presets that should be updated.

Are these (or any) presets updated with Reaper?

I have worked with my own video presets for so long that I can't remember off my head which ones need fixing and I haven't heard of any plans either. I am planning to release in the near future a full library of presets to improve (and fix) significantly the video editing capabilities of Reaper. In the mean time just tell me which presets are problematic.

[Winfield]

Originally Posted by papagirafe

I have worked with my own video presets for so long that I can't remember off my head which ones need fixing and I haven't heard of any plans either. I am planning to release in the near future a full library of presets to improve (and fix) significantly the video editing capabilities of Reaper. In the mean time just tell me which presets are problematic.

Thank you for the generous offer - I'm not having any issues, but am concerned with the presets (or rather effects, when we are talking video) not working when I'm needing them to. I'll look out for your release.

[vsthem]

I don't know if there's an easy fix for this, but the other major issue I have is that my rendered videos come out with a kind of intermittent pixelation. You can see it a bit on this clip

https://imgur.com/a/AkshV57

It's cell phone footage, in portrait, that has fine resolution when played inside and outside of reaper, but it gets wonky when rendered. Other footage using a phone renders fine. It seems to be this one clip.

Any help would be appreciated!

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by vsthem

I don't know if there's an easy fix for this, but the other major issue I have is that my rendered videos come out with a kind of intermittent pixelation. You can see it a bit on this clip

https://imgur.com/a/AkshV57

It's cell phone footage, in portrait, that has fine resolution when played inside and outside of reaper, but it gets wonky when rendered. Other footage using a phone renders fine. It seems to be this one clip.

Any help would be appreciated!

Looks like the bitrate used for video encoding is too low. It's doing that only on fast changing segments which is typical. H.264 encoding is generally more resistant to htis problem.

[vsthem]

I really appreciate your help here. I'm using H.264 FWIW. I've attached a screenshot of my settings, which I'm pretty sure are just the default mp4 settings. Is there anything I can adjust here that might help?

Thanks again!

[Fergler]

Originally Posted by vsthem

I don't know if there's an easy fix for this, but the other major issue I have is that my rendered videos come out with a kind of intermittent pixelation. You can see it a bit on this clip

https://imgur.com/a/AkshV57

It's cell phone footage, in portrait, that has fine resolution when played inside and outside of reaper, but it gets wonky when rendered. Other footage using a phone renders fine. It seems to be this one clip.

Any help would be appreciated!

I have nothing to add other than whatever project you are working on looks like a lot of fun. Is this monster the spawn of a washing machine? :P

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by vsthem

I really appreciate your help here. I'm using H.264 FWIW. I've attached a screenshot of my settings, which I'm pretty sure are just the default mp4 settings. Is there anything I can adjust here that might help?

Thanks again!

Try doubling the bitrate at least temporarily. Also giving the source video characteristics (and the presets used) would help (ctrl-f2 on item in windoze)

[vsthem]

Doubling the bit rate renders without the visual distortion (I don't know the term for what's on the above GIF!). You say this is just a temporary solution though?

I've attached the video file settings, so maybe something's wonky there?

Thank you again so much for your help

[vsthem]

I have the "Item Fades affect video" and the patched "Track Opacity/Zoom/Pan" in the FX Chain FWIW

[papagirafe]

Originally Posted by vsthem

I have the "Item Fades affect video" and the patched "Track Opacity/Zoom/Pan" in the FX Chain FWIW

If you encode using the WMF library, you need adjust the rate starting from double downward. I personnaly prefer the upgraded ffmpeg lib with h.264 encoding as it does a better job.

[vsthem]

That looks way better. Thanks!!!