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Is slowmo of progressiv pictures ugly ???
A friend of mine is considering having some stuff shot on DVCPRO50 camera in progressive mode, and make it slowmotion. I have never worked with real progressive stuff before.. and I have been told that it will get more ugly than working with interlaced material. Is this true ??
If so, any techniques or plugins that might help me ? (revisionfx ?)
Anders
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7 Replies
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It is no secret that FCP slomo is not the greatest. You are talking aout taking progressive scanned images and converting them to interlaced images and changing the speed.
Revision is one way, AE is another, but FCP will not be the best slomo tool.
Much of it has to do with your workflow and how much you actually are going to slow down. If it is all slomo and speed then it might be a good idea to run some tests first so that you do not have to predict problems but find out what they are.
David
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Compressor does a fantastic job of slowing footage down, because it uses SHAKE’s optical flow technology. Try a few tests that way too.
You have to create preset that will slow the footage down, but you can work with all of your shots and then do the compressor thing last and replace the media in your timeline.
David
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David I’m interested in this. Can you give more details please.
Alan
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Alan,
I first learned about this when finding a solution for converting HD footage that was shot 59.94 but needed to be converted to 24P. After many tests it turned out that the Compressor presets looked awesome.
so you can create a preset that makes a clip playback at 1/2 speed or 1/4 speed and if you turn the optical flow to high it does a great job interpreting the inbetween frames. You can just drop those clips into compressor, run the preset and then reimport into FCP.
David
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Thanks David, I’ll give it a go.
Alan
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stupid question.. but how do you actually slow things down in compressor. .I have looked at it.. but not really figuring out how to do it
Anders
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This is designed to convert 59.94 to 24 frames.
here is a workflow I read about in the apple forum
https://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?13@953.qbe0aAMTWAB.9@.68b3d36f/0
david
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