• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  Removing Speed From a Clip

  Posted by Sam Pope on January 25, 2010 at 3:10 pm

  I shot a bunch of footage a 60fps and I need to speed it up to real time, 24fps.

  What is the best way to do this and maintain quality?

  Thanks

  Matt Lyon replied 16 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  David Bogie

  January 25, 2010 at 3:47 pm

  Progressive or interlaced?
  Pop open the manual for Cinema Tools and go exploring while you’re waiting for the more experienced wonks to offer better suggestions.

  bogiesan
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  Sam Pope

  January 25, 2010 at 3:55 pm

  Progressive.

  I know that I could just do the math and slow down the clip the appropriate percentage to get it to real time. But I know there’s also got to be a way to remove frames.
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  Matt Lyon

  January 25, 2010 at 4:41 pm

  The quick and dirty way would be to apply the appropriate speed setting directly in the FCP timeline and turn off “frame blending” — that should make FCP just do the equivalent of a “nearest frame” motion conversion. (At least in FCP 6 — I haven’t tried the new speed tools in FCP 7 yet).

  The other route would be to use compressor, and set the rate conversion to “Fastest (nearest frame).”

  Matt Lyon
  Editor
  Toronto

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