Re: best slow motion plug-in for FCS2

[Jerry Hofmann]

Try Motion 3 instead… best? dunno, but better than FCP in a heartbeat. It uses a ton better code for slow motion effects.

Jerry

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[David Mcgiffert]

Thank you Jerry.

I am not sure how to do that in Motion,
but I guess that’s why they made manuals.
(putting on reading glasses and opening manual…)

David

[Jerry Hofmann]

Report back with your experience in this thread!

Jerry

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[David Mcgiffert]

Jerry,

I am about the worlds worst person to have messing
around in Motion and then reporting results…I don’t know
it well at all.

Here is what I did find out sofar. I tried a very jittery
handheld shot in Motion’s smoothcam-like behavior’s setting.
The result was stunningly effective.
Now I don’t exactly know what I did, but I came up with a clip that was MUCH better looking then what I started with.
The thing that is cool is that you can keep the clip running and
mess with the parameters in real time…now that is impressive.

What do I even LOOK for to slow down a clip down in Motion?
(face red),

David

[David Mcgiffert]

Jerry,
it’s a little late on the topic,
but I have now gotten familiar with Motion’s ability
to slow a clip and I think it is fantastic.
Thanks for pointing the way.

David

[Jamie Kehoe]

To slow down footage, there are numerous ways using a multitude of plugins or techniques, but in Motion, you do that through the Timing section. For blending choose Optical Flow and then set your percentage at anything slower than 100%. Depending on if you want to have a Matrix effect, slow down and speed up, you will need to play around with keyframes and timing of each section. Keep in mind you need to work on smaller sections of video as it is very slow to render unless you have a really fast Mac Pro Workstation.

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