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VTR style interpolation within FCP?
I have moved over from Avid to FCP and I am seriously less than impressed with the look of slowing down video clips within FCP. As far as I can tell FCP uses frame blending where as within Avid you can select VTR style interpolation for motion effects. I work in live sports broadcasts mainly and making slow motion clips is very important. Is there any way I can get VTR style interpolation within FCP?
I have looked into effects like BCC Optical Flow, but they are too complex and far too CPU intensive to use in a live broadcast event.
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7 Replies
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Yes, with plugins. Look at Boris Continuum, and the optical flow filter https://borisfx.com/.
Also can take a look at twixtor.https://www.revisionfx.com/rstwixtor.htm
There is a method that you can do this in Compressor actually… search this forum for the thread on it.
Jerry
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VTR style is nothing but showing one field at a time, right? That’s what VTRs do when I slow mo them. Usually looks fine with sports because the camera or shot is moving every frame. Have you tested on sports? Have you turned off the frame interpolation in FCP to see what that looks like? Big checkbox in speed settings box for that. Renders faster too.
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Thanks for the respone Jerry but like I said in my post I have looked into plugins but I repeat that they are too cpu intensive and time consuming. I have had a search through the forums about Compressor and interpolation but nothing came up. Anyway, when I have just minutes or seconds to get an edit ready I was looking for a far quicker and simple solution.
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VTR style interpolation refers to a more complex manipulation of the fields found in BVW-75’s or DVW 500’s etc. It does more than just spit out the one field. I have tried it with frame blending off but it is pretty jerky as it is now single fielded only.
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try experimenting with a little motion blur in the motion tab – can yield impressive results.
Rob
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Boris’ plugin would be acessed directly from the video filters… I don’t think it’s particularly slow… i.e. it becomes part of FCP sort of..
Jerry
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Optical Flow does do frame interpolation… quite remarkable actually.
Jerry
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Author: “Jerry Hofmann on Final Cut Pro 4” Click here
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