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Slow motion and Speed changes in FCP
I’ve got loads of footage of a BMX competition shot 60 fps in a 720 24p format. I’ve dropped this footage into a 24 fps timeline, so it’s all in 2.5 slow motion.
What I’m trying to do is affect all of the footage so that it plays at regular speed (2.5 X the original footage), but then at certain spots get it to slow down and speed up for speed ramps.
What’s the fastest way to go about doing this?
Thanks for your help.
Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan -
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[Andrew Gregg] “I’ve got loads of footage of a BMX competition shot 60 fps in a 720 24p format. I’ve dropped this footage into a 24 fps timeline, so it’s all in 2.5 slow motion. “
No. Your p60 footage will be badly converted to p24 and will play at normal speed.
You need to open your p60 footage in CinemaTools and conform it to p24. In this process there is no rendering so no quality lost.
Then when you import to FC will be played 2.4 times slower.
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The quality is fine now. I recorded in a 24fps base at 60 fps, so the footage looks fine in the 24fps time line.
What I need to do is make all of the footage normal speed, and slow it down just at certain points for impact. I’m looking for a fast way to do this.
Thanks for your suggestion though.
Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan -
Sounds like you need Time Remapping. You should look that up in the manual and read about it.
All the best,
Tom
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Another thing I’m looking to do is to be able to time warp clips as if they had the start and ending points I cut them down to in the time line.
I’m running a multiclip and then I cut between the two cameras. After these cuts are done, I want to ramp the speed from one shot to another, so the transition is seamless.
I need the final frame of where I made the cut, not where the original media ends. It’s much nicer to work with a short clip in the time remap. Working with a long one is difficult because it’s x/y axis is so long that if you make a minor adjustment, you speed up your clip by 5000%, or have it turn in to a still.
I know I can export the individual clip and work like this for every cut, but surely there’s a better way to do this.
Any ideas?
Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan -
Yeah, unfortunately the manual doesn’t get into the nitty gritty aspects of things! I’m looking for shortcuts. I know I’m lazy.
Andrew Gregg
Director
LiveABC Taiwan -
“Another thing I’m looking to do is to be able to time warp clips as if they had the start and ending points I cut them down to in the time line.
I’m running a multiclip and then I cut between the two cameras. After these cuts are done, I want to ramp the speed from one shot to another, so the transition is seamless.”
Hi Andrew,
You could do this by making the two cameras have the same time re-map and too simply keyframe one clip in the motion tab then once you are happy, simply copy the attributes from that clip and paste the time re-map attributes onto the other clip(s).Hope that helps 🙂
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