720 60p for smooth slo-mo playback in FCP?

[Shane Ross]

If you drop a 59.94 clip into a 23.98 sequence and render, it will playback at 23.98…1 second for 1 second. It will just now have the look of 23.98 material.

If you want to slow it down for great slow motion, then you need to use the DVCPRO HD Frame Rate converter (found in the extras folder on the FCP install disk) and convert it that way.

I have a tutorial for this:

https://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=8&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/dvpro_hd/index.html

Shane

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http://www.lfhd.net

[Pierre]

Shane-

Thank you very much!

Michael

[Mike Most — account bouncing, bad address]

Go into Cinema Tools and conform the clip to 23.98. It will then play back the way you intended.

[Shane Ross]

Whoa..hold on there. That will conform your clip to 23.98 slo motion…that will transform it from 60p to 23.98…and there will be no going back. The Frame Rate Converter will make a [b]new clip[/b] that is slow motion, leaving the original clip alone. In case you want a clip at normal speed as well.

Shane

Littlefrog Post
http://www.lfhd.net

[Mike Most — account bouncing, bad address]

Why would he want to “go back” when the whole point was to acquire a slow motion clip?

Besides, if that was really necessary, you could just make a copy before doing the conform. All the frame rate converter is going to do is exactly what I just described, since the material was shot at 60 fps to begin with. I’m just trying to keep things simple during one of those seemingly rare times when they actually are.

[Eric Holzapfel]

Hello all,
Where did the link go?? I mean, the movie??? Is it still around? can I download it for future reference?

https://forums.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/dvpro_hd/DVCPROFrameRateConverter.mov

Thanks,

Eric

[Shane Ross]

Here:

https://library.creativecow.net/articles/ross_shane/dvpro_hd.php

Click on my head at the top to get to ALL of my tutorials. Pretty handy way to get to them.

Shane

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[Ron Lindeboom]

As I mentioned when you wrote us at webmaster, we changed the library system last Summer. I do not know where you got that old link but the library system has been changed for about 10 months now. If someone has it linked somewhere, please inform them of the new location. The article can be found in the new system by clicking

• the Library link in the orange navigation bar, and then searching by author, by subject or
• by clicking on an author’s photo — in this case, clicking on Shane’s host picture (which takes you to all a writer’s articles).

Best regards,

Ron Lindeboom