extract every fifth frame

[Zane Barker]

You can use Quicktime Pro to export a image sequence and then create a smart folder to only show you the images that contain a 0 & 5 or what ever you choose.

Then as far as I know the easiest way to assemble them into a quicktime movie would be motion, it has a easy way to play back a image sequence.

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Jeremy Garchow]

Stobe filter set to 5?

Effects > Video Filters > Video > Strobe

Jeremy

[Zane Barker]

even better

There are no “technical solutions” to your “artistic problems”.
Don’t let technology get in the way of your creativity!

[Nick Meyers]

you can speed the clip up by 500% to achieve this.

FCP will generally give you an *aproximation* of the speed you request
the real trick with this, if you need accuracy, is to start with a number that deides evenly by the speed you need to apply.

your clip for instance should be a number of frames that is divisible by 5.

right or control click in the TC fields in the viewer, canvas & timeline and choose “Frames”
now you can see your duration in frames.
adjust the duration of your clip to be 5-friendly,
and change the speed (Apple J) to 500%

turn frame blending OFF

nick

[Jayson Rahmlow]

Thanks for the suggestion Jeremy. I gave it a try but it’s not exactly what I was looking for. It stretches out the frames to replace the others so:

frame# 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,etc.

effect>video filter>strobe – set to 5 becomes

frame# 1,1,1,1,1,6,6,6,6,6,etc.

and I want it to go

frame# 1,6,etc.

am I using it wrong?

[Nick Meyers]

you are using it right.
that’s what the strobe filter does.

you want to adjust the SPEED of the clip.
(as outlined in my previous post)

nick

[Jeremy Garchow]

It was just a guess. Sorry.

Nick’s suggestion is spot on and Zane’s will work too.

[Jayson Rahmlow]

nick that was great, it worked. And I’m definitely looking for accuracy. I got the idea from Shake’s global range setting. Where you can type in 1-16×5 and then it’ll render a flipbook with the frames 1,6,11,16. Would like that for FCP.

and thanks for the switching to frames TC tip. It’d be nice to be able to bind that to a key.

jayson
http://www.oldchildprojects.com

[Jayson Rahmlow]

Hi Zane,
thanks for the suggestion. It sounds like a good way to really control which frames make it into the clip. If I want to replace a 4th frame instead of a 5th frame every once in awhile.

I’m giving it a try but I’m new to smart folders and I don’t know how to search for files containing “1.png” and “6.png” Do you know how to do this?

thanks,
jayson
http://www.oldchildprojects.com

[Arnie Schlissel]

I was going to recommend Shake for this. You would use a Time-x node, I think, but it seems you already have a grip on it.

Arnie
Now in post: Peristroika, a film by Slava Tsukerman
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