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FCP and Slo-mo
How do you do this? I’ve been trying this for 2 hours and I’m starting to wish I had my Avid system back! I’ve tried frame blending but the video still looks jittery and motion blur doesn’t help. This should be a simple thing to do so I have to think I’m screwing up somewhere along the line. If you haven’t guessed by now I’m a newly converted Avid editor (15 years) so I sort of know what’s going on, at least in an Avid suite! Somebody through me a line!
Rich
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Did you render?
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yep.
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If you have FCS2 the new motion has an unbelievable slo-mo (it now has the Shake engine). So I send the clip to Motion and slow it down. An unbelievable difference.
Slo-mo within FCP is not one of its strong suits.
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I tried making a subclip but every time I open it in Motion it brings the entire captured clip. What am i doing wrong in that regard.
rich
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Subclip in for FCP only just pointers if it is really a long clip export it as a self-contained and bring that into FCP and then Send to Motion. You have to do the same thing if you use smooth cam also. Not the cleanest way to get something done but the result is worth it.
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Thanks I’ll give it a try. This project was captured with extremely long clips so this sounds like a good way to get around those big ones.
Thanks.
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Still weighing up the pros and cons of moving to FCP from Premiere. Good slomo is important to me. What happens if I want to export lots of clips on a timeline to Motion for speed changes? Can a series of clips be exported in one hit or do they have to be imported individually into Motion one at a time ? Is this practical in real life?
Peter
Peter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
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you can select more than one clip send to motion and it will send those clips only
otherwise no batch, although if you have turned on the optical flow retiming from timing in motion then it should be analysing the slomo of all clips in the background (a kind of batch once you have sent them and set the setting)
to turn on you must go properties for selected clip, then timing, then frame blending, set to optical flow. it should take all keyframes etc for speed from final cut pro.
watch the wheel spin to left of controls
once done save project files in motion, return to final cut and save
simple really
and very very good quality, just takes a long time, maybe leave overnight
Note: I posted this a week ago on a similar post. maybe check previous posts before covering same ground.
p,s, the thing you can batch to go in the background is analysis of master clips in final cut for smoothcam (motion stabilisation)
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Thanks Ben,
I’ll check out the earlier thread. The overnight thing scares me. Rendering is already a pain on my Vista/PPro CS3 setup which is still fast by any standard. I guess I have to weigh up whether I go for a FCP system for industry compatibility or upgrade my PC to Axio LE and get a lot of RT (especially slomo). Cost is around the same. hmmm….
Cheers,
PeterPeter Corbett
Powerhouse Productions
http://www.php.com.au -
Peter,
I think you would have to see a sample of both methods. If you get what you want real time it is going to be a hard sell, unless you see an improvement that you just cannot live with out.
I would be glad to do a test for you. If you want to upload a clip for me, I’ll slow it down for you and you can see if it is worth the time.
– Mike
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