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speeding up a film
Hi,
I am helping a student with a film.The camera was placed in one position but I want to speed it up so you can see the change in the lighting. It is 1 hour long but wants to be sped up so its only 1 or 2 minutes long in total.
I guess FCP would not go that fast in the speed settings?
Is there an easy way of doing it please without splitting the film down to be shorter?
Many thanks for any ideas.
Tateman. -
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iMovie is very limited with speed changes, but Final Cut / Motion are much more flexible. Did you try it in Final Cut yet? Are you working with film or video? Video is relatively easy – select the clip and choose Speed from the Modify menu. Type in the final duration that you want, and turn off “Frame Blending.”
To smooth it out, to make it not look so stuttery, you may want to turn on Motion Blur in the motion tab. I’d recommend starting with 50% and 8 samples, and adjust to taste.
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Just make a “Fit to Fill”. Set the IN and OUT in your footage. In the sequence set as well IN and OUT with the duration you want to get. Drag the clip to the “Fit to Fill” window. FC will speed up the footage to fit it in that duration.
Easy. Hope you understand my poor English. Post again if not.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
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So it will speed it up that much will it? One hour down to say 1 minute? Thank you
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Thanks, so it will speed it up that much? One hour down to one minute?
Im using FCP studio and its video im using.
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It will speed it as much as needed to fit the clip between he IN and OUT. You can put 24 hours in 30 seconds if you want.
Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table. -
Basics forum please.
Kevin Monahan
http://www.fcpworld.com
Author – Motion Graphics and Effects in Final Cut Pro -
Oh wow thats great then.
Will I have to export the whole timeline so its one clip rather than working with the 8 seperate clips to make up the hour.
So I have to put an in and out point on the timeline to do it? I cant just select the clip?
Sorry ive just come over to mac from PC.
Thank you for your help!!
Andy -
not sure if you can do it from a timeline with multiple clips. I would guess either way that it would be better to export making it one clip. Then bring it in and do the fit to fill.
There are other ways to speed clips up, but that it the most straight forward.
You can also put the clip you want to speed up in it’s own sequence (or at the end of your existing sequence – to avoid moving your other clips around – if you don’t know don’t ask yet) 😉
then right-click (control-click) and choose speed. then you can type in any percentage you want, say 1000% or a duration and your good to go. -
[todd reid] “not sure if you can do it from a timeline with multiple clip”
You can nest, and apply the Fit to Fill.Mac OX 10.5.2-FC 6.02-QT 7.4.1
G5 2x2Gh 4GbRAM-BlackMagic Extreme
PMBP 17″Core2Duo 4GbRAM-AJA ioHD
JVC DTV-17″
SONY EX-1 . SONY PD170
..and always a big mess on top of the table.
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