is there a good speedramp plugin ?

[Tom Wolsky]

I guess you don’t like time remapping in FCP.

All the best,

Tom

Author: “Final Cut Pro 5 Editing Essentials” and “Final Cut Express 2 Editing Workshop” Class on Demand “Complete Training for FCP5” and “Final Cut Express Made Easy” DVDs

[Rainer Wirth]

Hi Tom,

speaking for all: we like it clean and simple. Creating a good smooth speedramp in final cut with the graph is time consuming. Do you have a simple nice idea?

Rainer

[Steve Eisen]

If you are looking for a third part plug-in, RE:Vision Effects Twixtor is what you are looking for.

Once you get the hang of timeremapping inside FCP, it’s very simple to use.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Uli Plank]

Twixtor is great, but complicated to use once you exceed original length.

Motion 3 has similar features.

Regards,

Uli

[Peter Wiggins]

Do yourself a favour and don’t do it. Speed ramping is becoming the visual cliche of the era.

Peter

[Chris Poisson]

Peter has a point, OT perhaps, but a good one. I got REALLY tired of all the speed effects VS. did on the Tour de France, too much.

I prefer to do this in AE with time remapping, and revisioneffects FieldsKit is a great companion on this. It will turn your fields into frames giving you twice the info to work with. There are other ways to do this, but FieldsKit does a super job.

[Peter Wiggins]

Vs – Versus???

We had a ban on using speed ramps on this years TdF on ITV as it just looks amateur and trying too hard in my opinion.

However, somebody made a closer in the OB truck that used them on nearly every shot.
You can imagine the screams back in London of “what?” when we saw it go out.

I have seriously considered setting up ‘badeditting.com’ Number one on the name & shame board would be Cribs – I cannot watch it

Peter

[Steve Eisen]

I’m with you Peter. I own many 3rd party plug-ins I ONLY use them when I need to.

Steve Eisen
Eisen Video Productions
Director-At-Large
Chicago Final Cut Pro Users Group

[Chris Poisson]

Hey Peter,

Yeah, Versus, whatever. Almost EVERY shot in their bumpers/promos had a ramp in it. It sucked.

[Joe Murray]

Timewarping in Final Cut Pro is pretty easy to use but the results are hit or miss depending on the source footage. Twixtor is the gold standard but is a pretty pricey plugin.

Joe Murray