[Don Greening]

Ryan,

You’re using Final Cut Pro, yes?

You can drop a 720p clip into a 1080p timeline and FCP will conform the clip to match the settings of that sequence. I have found, however, that on some 720p slow-mo clips that FCP gets the aspect ratio wrong and the clip displays as anamorphic squeeze. In those instances you need to double-click the 720p clip to load it into the viewer. There you click on the distort tab and change the aspect ratio to plus 33.333 percent. That usually takes care of it. If you have a number of 720p slow-mo clips in the timeline that are being displayed wrong you can change one of them to the correct aspect ratio, copy that particular clip’s attributes to the clipboard, deselect the clip, select all the others and paste the attributes onto all of the other clips. The short cuts for these two tasks is Cmd-C to copy to the clipboard and Option-V to paste the attributes to the other selected clips.

Something for you here:

https://www.digital-heaven.co.uk/podcast/

Look for the podcast: Pasting attributes part 1 and 2.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Oliver Heuft] “Kind regards. Oliver (Sorry for my german english ;))”

Hi Oliver,

I’ll bet you a million Euros that your English is a lot better than my German 🙂

To answer your question I suggest you follow the developing thread at the link below. I’m sure that you’ll find something helpful to solve your issue.

https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/142/860504

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Craig Seeman] “I just thought I’d make these random additions to Don’s post.”

Your randomness is appreciated 🙂

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Craig Seeman] “I believe Convergent Design is working in this area so you’d have to think about what they’re doing and how you can make yours better/different. “

Thanks, Craig. In previous dialogue with Brian I had eluded to Convergent Design’s products, but obviously not strongly enough. I think that company’s Flash XDR device is just what Brian is looking for.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Hi Brian,

Sorry for the delay in replying to your post. I had to go back to some of your previous posts to find out what camera you’re using and I’m assuming it’s the EX series cameras.

These cameras can only shoot slo-mo using the smaller frame size of 720, so you need to enter that mode and then activate S & Q Motion from the menu. After that, choose the amount of overcrank by selecting the frames per second. If your primary project is 24p then you’d want to shoot the slow-mo in HQ 720p/24, then using a frame rate of 48 would give you a result that plays at 50% speed. If you shot at the maximum frame rate of 60 fps then your clip would run even slower in a 24p timeline.

Hope this helps.

– Don

[Don Greening]

You’re welcome. Good luck with your project.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Victoria Murphy] “Should I de-interlace the freeze frame in FCP before I export it?”

You can do the de-interlacing in Photoshop. Look in the filters under “Video”. The field order for DV NTSC is lower field first so play with the de-interlace filter in Photoshop until it looks right.

– Don

[Don Greening]

Hi Carol,

Welcome to Creative COW. You want to do a picture in picture effect, right? It’s a pretty simple procedure.
Put the clip you want to remain full size on V1 and the clip that will be the smaller frame size directly above the first one on V2. At the top of the Canvas window click on the rightmost dropdown menu and choose “image and wireframe” from the list. Park your playhead in the timeline on the first frame of the video clip on V2.

Highlight the V2 clip in your timeline and you’ll see the wireframe appear in the Canvas. With the selection tool (arrow) active place your cursor on one corner of the frame until it turns into a crosshair. Click and drag towards the centre. The clip’s frame size will shrink and reveal the underlying clip on V1. When you’ve reduced the clip on V2 to the size you want position the cursor in the middle of the smaller picture until the cursor again turns into a crosshair. Click and drag the frame to where you want it within the larger frame on V1. That’s about it.

– Don

[Don Greening]

You’re welcome. You can tell right away if you’re in 720p 30 mode with under/overcranking enabled because there will be a red circle and slash right over top of the audio meters in the viewfinder. 720p 60 mode allows audio to be recorded, so there’s no such red circle.

Playing back under/overcranking clips in-camera will show the immediate results of that mode because the camera will play back everything @ 30fps. Just hit the “last clip” review button on the top of the hand grip, that way you don’t have to turn the camera off and then on again to enter media mode.

– Don

[Don Greening]

[Bob Jackson] “n the back of my mind 720p-60 was overcranking……..Don’t want 1/2 speed. “

720p 60 isn’t for overcranking. It’s for regular speed @30fps but the advantage here is 60 complete progressive frames a second. For overcranking you use the 720p 30 setting, then enable S & Q mode and then change the frame rate up to 60 fps. When you play that back in a 30fps timeline it will be at half speed.

– Don