[Dustin Parsons]

Constant speeds but with keyframe smoothing so it’s not an abrupt jump between them.

I’ll check out Motion, but it seems a little much to have to go to another program to do something as simple as this… or at least something that SHOULD be as simple as this. There has to be a way to do this easily within FCP.

[Dustin Parsons]

Yeah, I was going for something more smooth, it’s always awkward when the speed just jumps from normal to something else.

Also, a problem I have with your method is when I’m adjusting the speed of the keyframe in the middle (B) there’s no way to make it have the same speed on both sides. If I speed up from A to B it slows the speed between B and C, as if there’s no way to keep a consistent speed between A and C.

[Dustin Parsons]

The timeline’s settings are:
Video – 720p at 23.98
Audio – 16 Bit at 48kHz

Dragging the footage in the timeline and syncing would probably work for most of the 59.94 clips except I’ve run into a problem with some of them using that method. See this thread https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/8/968562 for more info.

I’m going to use the DVCPRO Frame Rate Converter to make every 59.94 clip 23.98 just to keep organized.

Thanks for your comment!

[Dustin Parsons]

DVCPRO Frame Rate Converter seems to work for me because apparently the Panasonic HVX flagged frames for a 23.98 pulldown so instead of giving me slow motion it conformed the 59.94 footage to 23.98 without changing the speed.

Thanks!

[Dustin Parsons]

The video was shot on an Panasonic HVX at 59.94FPS.

Audio is in .wav format, 16 Bit Integer, Stereo, 48KHz

[Dustin Parsons]

It was shot on the Panasonic HVX so I guess I’ll use the Frame Converter then.

Thanks!

[Dustin Parsons]

Thanks for the reply. I just tried going through Cinema Tools and I was able to conform the 59.94 to 24 (I didn’t have an option for 23.97) but it did not drop any frames, resulting in slow motion.

[Dustin Parsons]

Wow, that’s stupid.

Thanks for the speedy response.

[Dustin Parsons]

Thanks Jeremy. I’ll play around and see what I come up with.

[Dustin Parsons]

The flop filter flips the image horizontally, like looking in a mirror; anything written on the screen would be backwards and the image would still be upside-down.

I’d like to avoid anything that would require rendering time, like a filter. Also, if I have to flip it in the timeline I wouldn’t actually be changing the Master clip and my 2 problems would still exist.