Jeremy Garchow
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I would imagine that has to do with how your Dropbox is setup.
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Save the transition as a favorite and make it the default audio transition.
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You have to move the cache as well.
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This process works for me so I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work for you. Perhaps it is SMB, I don’t know.
Can you push media to the second library? So, create your new library, open the old library, select clips and “File > Copy to…”?
Otherwise, there’s media copy from automatic duck that will consolidate an xml.
https://www.automaticduck.com/#media-copy
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Can you give exact steps, as this process should work.
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Click the color swatch.
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Keep the media and cache outside of your library so they are smaller and use them as you would an fcp7 file.
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[Mark Smith] “At 25 FPS the camera shutter would nominally be 1/50 second which would become a key factor in characterizing motion blur of any movement in the frame. At 120fps, shutter speed would be 1/240 second so motion blur for each frame would be greatly reduced compared to the 25 fps scenes.”
Precisely.
Then, Jolene, if you adjust the shutter speed when shooting 120fps to introduce more motion blur, you may not get as pleasing of an image when playing back slow motion, and then when speeding back up to real time, the image may appear super blurry. This is why interpolating motion blur on sped up 120fps may be idea. You can also check out Re:Vision’s ReelSmart motion blur which is excellent software for this: https://revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/
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[Jolene van Antwerp] “Could it be that FCP is seeing it as 25fps, which is why it keeps 100% speed – which is actually slow motion 120fps.”
That is exactly correct. The footage is “over cranked”.
[Jolene van Antwerp] “I would actually like to do a test and set the video frame rate the same as the shooting rate (video rate 120fps & shooting rate 120fps), to see if FCP will automatically conform the speed when dropped into a 25fps sequence. Do you think this might work? “
What would be the goal? I’m not sure if the camera will allow a project rate of 120fps, but even if it did, at some point you will have to place the footage in a 25fps timeline. So if you put 120fps footage in a 25fps timeline, FCPX will skip frames to play it back, so it is essentially the same thing as speeding up the 120fps @ 25 footage. When shooting 120 or slow motion, all of the motion characteristics of each frame will look different than if you would have shot at 25fps originally. Each frame will have less motion blur as there is less motion per frame, if that makes any sense. Each frame, essentially, is more “sharp” which is why it doesn’t look right to your eye when speeding it up. The motion looks somewhat unnatural. Another way to put it is that a bug flying in the sky will move a greater distance in one frame of 25fps footage than 120fps footage resulting in more motion blur. I would definitely encourage you to test because it’s fun! ☺ You can play with different shutter speeds to effect motion blur per frame. At some point, you will need to decide f you are shooting for slow motion or regular motion. It looks like you work in wildlife, so you probably want it all! ???? Which is completely understandable, by the way.
With your current footage, I would turn on optical flow and you should see a difference in the motion. To do this, you put the footage in the timeline, speed it up 480%, and then go to the retiming wheel and choose Video Quality > Optical Flow and let FCPX analyze the footage. Like this:
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[Jolene van Antwerp] “especially on slight camera movement or little things like the flow of water or bugs in the sky. “
Yes, that’s because in order to play back real time, FCPX skips frames. Turn on “optical flow” so FCPX will interpolate between the skipped frames and smooth out the motion.