Sped up footage?

[Bouncing Account needs new email address]

Did you RENDER it at the highest quality setting?
Did you try it WITH and then WITHOUT the “frame blending” option?

[Jeff Carpenter]

The Final Cut speed control is so-so at best. If you have access to a compositing program like After Effects, use that for these shots instead.

But if you’re stuck with Final Cut, here’s the big secret: Stick with numbers that are “easy” for the computer.

So, for example, 25% 50% 200% 400% are all good. 98% or 212% are bad. For two examples; if the computer has to only erase every other frame (200%) or double every frame (50%) then Final Cut really has no problems. When you get into anything more complicated than that, though, it starts to break down a little.

[Thew]

Yeah but when I bring the footage in to AE, it just dosent look clean, maybe try a motion blur.
I am using AE 5.5 so Im sure that dosent help..

[Michael Alberts]

Are you editing your 24P footage in a 29.97 timeline? If so you will get an uneven, stuttery looking speed up or Slo-Mo. You’ll notice it more if you slow down the footage. If you want it to look as clean as it can be in FCP you should be editing at the native frame rate. There are other tools that do better slo-mo’s and speed ups. Boris BCC has the Optical Flow filter for FCP that looks good. AE 7 has improved on it’s speed motion. Twixtor comes to mind also.

Michael Alberts
Ambidextrous Productions, Inc.