Anyone else seeing micro-stutter on AE 24.6 exports when a 3‑frame ease collides with 180° shutter blur at 60fps? Plays like butter in the comp, but the ProRes 422 HQ render jitters in VLC and Premiere — should I tweak velocity (66/33) or drop shutter angle to keep the motion feeling continuous without killing the impact?
Seen this with AE 24.6: the “micro-stutter” usually isn’t the 180° blur or the “3-frame ease” — it’s a 60.00 vs 59.94 mismatch. Set your comp/export to match your Premiere sequence exactly (e.g., 59.94 everywhere), then re-render ProRes 422 HQ and the jitters in VLC/Premiere usually vanish; are you on 60.00 or 59.94? If it still feels sticky, I nudge shutter to 144° rather than mess with 66/33.
This drives me nuts — I’d nudge shutter phase toward 0° (from the default -90°) before dropping the 180°; on a “3‑frame ease” it often kills the 60fps strobe without softening the hit. If it still jitters, export a 120fps master and conform to 60 in Premiere. I’m with @alex_p55 on matching 60.00 vs 59.94, but the phase tweak is usually the missing piece.
Building on @paul747: keep 180° but try Shutter Phase around -60° and bump Motion Blur Samples to about 24 in Comp > Advanced; it nudges the smear off the peak accel and usually kills the hitch. If not, reimport the ProRes and “Interpret Footage → Assume this frame rate: 60.000” to rule out a playback cadence quirk — is it every loop or just the first?