Animation very jumpy

[Jacky]

Hi,
I have a table created for a class, and now I want to create a simple video to showcase it. I am not looking for fancy animation to open the drawers, but a simple animation with an animation path, which I did.
I did this twice, with one at 60 FPS and at 320x240 resolution. another with 60 FPS and at 1080x768 resolution.

The 1080x768 does give me a better resolution, however, when I run it, it has blips and jumps in the video vs. the 320x240 resolution. the lower quality runs smoother.
At the same time, I noticed that the attached image that I used for sky (which should be baby blue) has many patches of purple when I use animation.

So, 2 questions
1. How to avoid jumpy but high resolution animation (with a simple animation motion path)
2. How to stop my attached image from patches of other color?

Are these problems my laptop's problem?

thanks

[kencaz]

I never did like AutoCAD's animation capabilities. Have you tried just running the animation and using screen recording software like Camtasia. I find the results are better for simple animations where you don't need rendering...

KC

[Jacky]

Thanks KC. I have not tried the Camtasia or other recording software before, so I am not too sure how to use those, if you can give me more details that would be awesome.
thanks

[Patrick Hughes]

60 FPS sounds like a lot of computing going on especially at 1080x768. Have you tried dropping that down to 30 or less? It seems counter-intuitive to do so but I've found many times when you do something reverse of what you might think things work out better.

[Cad64]

Patrick is right. 60 fps is way too much. Animation is usually done anywhere from 24 to 30 fps, so try that and you should have better luck.

[Jacky]

Thanks everyone,
I have tried again with 30 FPS at high resolution. However, I still find it jumpy and the sky of the attached material still shows patches of purple.
Do you have any other suggestions? (preferably within AutoCAD)

[Cad64]

What are the specs of your laptop? Maybe it can't handle the high resolution playback?
Have you tried watching your video on another computer?

[Jacky]

My laptop specs is a dell 1530XPS with 4G RAM T8300 2.40GHz
I have only tried on an even smaller laptop, as I don't have assess to a better desktop now. Do you think my laptop spec is a problem?
thanks

[Cad64]

I think it's most likely a problem with some aspect of your laptop. I don't think it has anything to do with Autocad.

What media player are you using to watch the video playback?

Read through the search results that I Googled and try some of the things that have been recommended: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=chopp...f719c8669fe4b7

If none of those recommendations work, try searching for answers regarding choppy playback in whatever media player you are using.

Can you upload your video to a file sharing site, and post a link to it here, so we can take a look at it on our machines and see if it still looks choppy?