Chris Davis
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[Chris Wright]
“let me re-phrase.
Neither optical flow plugin-which produce nice looking slow motion without jutter-. even touches the audio.
Only timestretch in AE actually affects AE’s sound speed. You then have to pitch correct it with another program with 3 keyframes.
Make sense?
It may be easier just to eyeball it in FCP and layover the rendered nice slow motion timewarp video clip because soundtrack pro will speedchange and pitch correct at the same time.”
Got it. BTW, is there a program in the Adobe Suite (Soundbooth, for example) that can change speed and pitch correct at the same time, like Soundtrack Pro?
Thanks for your time.
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[bogiesan]
“A bunch of factors, these are all I can think of…”Thanks,
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Thanks, Stephen.
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[Dave LaRonde]
“I’d double-check the Twixtor web site on its audio capabilities. Twixtor’s great for video, but I don’t know about audio.”Will do. Thanks.
[Chris Wright]
“No, timewarp and twixtor don’t pitch correct, you will have to separate the audio and pitch correct it manually…”Looks like I misunderstood. So the plug-in bend the pitch of the audio when retiming video? I’m not seeing how retiming is different with this plug -in than retiming the video/audio separately in FCP/Soundtrack Pro.
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Chris. Thanks for the ideas. Looks like Twixtor Timewarp may be the only to gradually speed up/slow down video/audio without changing it’s pitch?
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Dave and Butch,
A sincere thanks for your replies.[Chris Wright]
“You can retime the fps with optical flow plugins, twixtor, timewarp that won’t affect the audio. What fps retime are you thinking of?”I glanced at Twixtor Timewarp. Looks like it does what I want, if for a price. I wonder how it works in FCP, as that’s what I’m currently using.
As far as “fps retime,” perhaps I’m not sure exactly what you are asking. I was actually just thinking of using mainly standard 24p footage and creating a slow motion or fast motion effect. I just want the audio to slow down and speed up with the video, but not change pitch. I would also like to be able to, for example, slow down from 100% to 50% speed over a period of a second or two. Can the program handle this?
Thanks,
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bogiesan
AE will get your through anything…
I use Motion only when I must.Thanks for your reply. I’m curious what kind of projects you “must” use Motion for. When you have a limited amount of time?
Sounds like AE is for me. I am curious, though, what Motion does do that would cause someone to pick it for a particular project, rather than AE.
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Dan,
Thanks for the info.
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Here’s a copy of the original post on the AE section:
Hello,
I’m getting near maxing out what I can do in FCP, and am interested in learning an effects program. I am currently using a MBP with 128 MB of VRAM, but plan to upgrade to a Mac Pro with a proper graphics card in about a year. I’m not asking which program is “better,” just which one seems more suited to me now and also which program would work best for me once I get a real video editing computer. I do not want to learn both programs, as each looks as if it would take hundreds of hours to really learn well, and I also don’t want to buy two sets of plug-ins.
1. Besides RT and FCP integration, what are the advantages of using Motion over AE, if any?
2. Is one program easier to learn than another? (Motion looks a little easier, but there’s over 20 times as many video tutorials for AE as there is for Motion, on this site alone, could make AE easier to learn for me.)
3. Does tracking in Motion work as well as tracking in Mocha (which I believe integrates with AE CS4)?
I am mainly interested in manipulating actual footage, rather than generating it. For example, I’m not so interested in really fancy titling or the kind of generated effects that one might see in a TV news or sports program. Here’s a few things that I’d like to do:
• Mask out a couch that’s shot with a static camera in a real living room (not green screen), then make it expand and contract as if it were breathing, in the same room.
• Adding “filmic glow” and other color enhancing effects to footage (beyond what FCP can do).
• Mask out the top of houses/horizon enough so that I can put alternate video in for the sky, or drastically change the color of the sky, using tracking with panning/tilting footage.
• “Build” a person or object so that it appears out of particles from the ground, perhaps using a shattered glass effect or particle system effect in reverse. (I would start with footage of a real person or object).Many thanks for your time,
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Noah Kadner
“If you want to do mostly titles and effects animation with easy results- go Motion. If you are doing sophisticated composites and manipulation of live-action footage, go AFX…”Thanks for the reply. When you say “effects animation,” does this mean the stuff that’s completely computer generated?
-Chris