Has anyone else experienced FrameFlex quality issues with the lastest MC 2019 releases?
FrameFlex has never produced stellar results downscaling UHD to HD, but with the recent versions it looks even worse than ever before. In addition to the downscaled image looking soft and mushy there's also a lot of horizontal line flickering going on. We now have to move our project over to Resolve to finish it.
Avid really needs to work on FrameFlex. A high-end video editing software shouldn't have problems with the most basic image manipulation like scale, translation and rotation.
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A little update on this issue:
Avid Customer Care was able to reproduce this bug and has confirmed that all Media Composer versions from 2018.12.7 to 2019.8 on Windows 10 are affected. It seems to work fine on Mac, though.
The latest confirmed version without the bug is 2018.12.3.
So if you are running a Media Composer version from 2018.12.7 to 2019.8 on Windows 10 and plan to finish a project that uses a lot of frameflexed shots anytime soon you should consider rolling back to 2018.12.3.
Or just export an AAF and finish the project in Resolve (much better downscaling quality than frame flex!).
Avid Customer Care also told me that having a better frameflex was one of the top 10 feature requests voted for in Avid ACA and added "Improvements will happen in future versions."
Let's hope that this will happen sooner than later. The quality of frame flex even without the bug leaves very much to be desired to say the least.