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Slow Motion of 30P footage…..
I have some footage that was shot in 30P on a DVX and there are a few shots I would like to slow mo. If I just change the speed on the FCP timeline, it interlaces the footage in an extremely horrible fashion, making it useless. I then decided to attempt the same slow mo rate (50% just for exprimental purposes) in After Effects which did a WAY better job of it. AE seemed to repeat frames instead of attempting to draw info from different frames and interlacing them together the way that FCP did. Even at 50% the AE slow mo looked pretty good.
However, when I rendered the footage from AE and imported it in to FCP, there is an OBVIOUS degradation in the image quality compared to the untouched clip in FCP.
Is this due to the slowing, the AE render settings (Animation / no fields / 30 fps), or the re-render on the FCP time line?
Any formulas to try instead of these? Am I missing something.
J.
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4 Replies
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Not missing anything- you need a dedicated slow mo plugin like Re:timer for good looking slow motion.
Noah
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Here is an image of the AE rendered clip on the left and the untouched clip on the right.
https://www.axessmediainc.com/slowmo/
Do Re:Timer and Twixtor maintain the image quality?
J.
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yes they do. PS- cross posting same q to many websites is kind of taboo.
Noah
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yeah, but you didn’t really have to use a plug-in using other camera’s minidv footage… is it just because it’s 30p? i just purchased a dv100a and am trying to get informed before it arrives. thanks
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