Jeff Mueller
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I just struggled with this myself, you can see my thread on it in the FCP Basics section: https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/200/885303
But most importantly, I found a good tutorial at:
https://rarevision.com/v1/articles/slow_motion.php#
I’m shooting HDV with the XLH1, but the process is the same, only you don’t have to mess around with the peculiarities of HDV. Shoot the rest of your project 24P, shoot your slow mo 60i with a shutter speed of at least 1/120 and then follow the tutorial to convert it in After Effects. There may be other ways, but this appears to work.
Hope this helps.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
I didn’t manage to get what I was looking for out of Compressor, but I think I’ve got it figured out using After Effects. I am an AE neophyte, but I found good instructions at: https://rarevision.com/v1/articles/slow_motion.php#
My first test didn’t work right, not sure why, but I decided to add one step to the process: before importing the footage into AE I use Compressor to convert it from HDV to ProRes 422 (but leave it 60i 29.97). Otherwise I followed these instructions precisely and the test looks good back in FCP, hope it continues to work as I’ve got a lot of this footage.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
Just as an FYI, I bought one of the ultra cheepo units to carry as a back-up and DC charger, it is the “Zeikos ZE-CH945 Battery Charger for Canon 945” https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001T9N10C/ref=oss_product
It does charge the batteries and for my purposes is fine, however, it does not appear to vary the charge rate or to shut off at full charge (although I’ve been loath to leave the batts on too long, so I’m not positive of that, there was no documentation with it). It weighs about 10% of what the Canon charger weighs so obviously is missing a lot of circuitry. To my mind it’s just a raw battery charger, so if you have good batteries you want to protect, you need a smart charger. On the otherhand, if you’re using knock-off batteries anyway and need a cheap solution, it does work.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
There are greater experts than me on this board and I don’t work in DV: but, my expectation is the audio and video will be tied together on the clip (good thing too!), when you import it into FCP you will “see” one clip, but go play it or drop it in the timeline and you’ll have 1 track of video and two tracks of audio.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
I don’t think I have this yet. Compressor happily transcoded a clip to 24 FPS (23.98 was not an option) and progressive, but when I drop it into my 23.98 sequence it plays back at normal speed. I can slow it down with FCP and it looks better than when I slow the clip down to 40% from the 1080i60 original, but there’s still a lot of ghosting.
Obviously Compressor thinks I want it full speed, maybe there’s a setting I’m missing.
Addendum: of course I didn’t think to change the duration in Frame Controls. I’m setting that to 250% in Frame Controls and trying that now.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
You won’t edit in MPEG-2, you’ll have to transcode it into Apple Intermediate Codec (FCE) or one of the ProRes codecs (FCP) but it shouldn’t be a problem. Most likely simplest way will be to put the card in a card reader and use Log and Transfer in FCP. Compressor or MPEG streamclip could probably also be used. The nice thing about the SD card cameras is you don’t have to make FCP talk directly to the camera.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
Thanks, I’ll give Compressor a try…at the moment my camera doesn’t want to talk to my computer (happens a lot) so it may take me some time, but I’ll post my results.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
I’m guessing that you’re looking at the small Canon consumer cameras that record AVCHD codec to an SD card. (the Vixias for instance) If so, it’s not a problem to use this footage, you can pull it directly off the camera or off the card. But it will have to be transcoded into a codec that FCP uses. AVCHD is an H264 codec which is NOT for editing. I’m working with footage from a Canon HF20 right now. Took it straight from the card into FCP and it’s going just fine.
Hope this helps.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
Hi Chuck:
[Chuck Emary] “I have imported a dvd into FCP3.”
I’m not sure we understand what you mean. Did you convert it with MPEG Streamclip (or something else) and if so into what codec? Did you then import that into an FCP project? Now what do you mean by
[Chuck Emary] “I cannot figure out how to save pieces of it off as clips or whatever the right term is.”
Do you want to break the video into smaller units and re-edit them?
I’m not one of the experts here, but I’ll help if I can. Just don’t know what you mean.
Jeff Mueller
http://www.ApertureVideos.com
Santa Barbara, CA -
[Dave LaRonde] “Heck, why don’t you simply scan ’em? Someone you know has a scanner, I bet……”
I guess it depends on the look you want…I frequently shoot photos instead of scanning to give a less digital feel. I also do moves, zooms and focus racks while I’m at it. I use XLH1 but don’t really have a shutter speed suggestion, pretty happy with the results any which way.