[Jolene Van antwerp]

Thank you, Robert. I think I might do the transform settings, especially in future edits.

I’m using Producers Best friend (such a handy plugin), which reports all effects in a spreadsheet, so I’ll be able to isolate the clips that have been flipped and then apply the transform settings.

Thank you!

[Jolene Van antwerp]

Yes, that definitely makes sense.

So the rate conform option in the inspector is not available (see screenshot). My sequence is set to 25fps, I wonder if it has something to do with the video frame rate of the RAW clip that is 25fps with a shooting rate of 120fps. Could it be that FCP is seeing it as 25fps, which is why it keeps 100% speed – which is actually slow motion 120fps.

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? Also, is there a possible solution for the footage that has a video frame rate of 25fps and shooting rate of 120fps?

Jolene van Antwerp
Wildlife Documentary Editor
South Africa, JHB

[Jolene Van antwerp]

Thanks for your response Jeremy.

I’ve retimed the the clip to 480% unfortunately it’s not working. The movement is too fast, especially on slight camera movement or little things like the flow of water or bugs in the sky.

Speeding up to anything between 250% – 300% seems to work the best (according to my eye) But this doesn’t make sense if you do the 120fps % 25fps = 4.8 calculation) Right?

Is there another way to establish the exact % speed increase for normal speed playback?

Jolene van Antwerp
Wildlife Documentary Editor
South Africa, JHB

[Jolene Van antwerp]

Thank you for your quick response.

Video Frame Rate 25 fps

Shooting rate 120 fps

See image for screenshot of inspector info

Jolene van Antwerp
Wildlife Documentary Editor
South Africa, JHB

[Jolene Van antwerp]

We also have the same problem. When we adjust the RED RAW color settings and select “apply”, an error pops up (see image below)

We’ve double checked and made sure that there are no background tasks running (turned off auto render etc).

Any advice would be greatly appreciated?

Jolene van Antwerp
Wildlife Documentary Editor
South Africa, JHB

[Jolene Van antwerp]

Also having the same problem. I’ve tried importing the footage into Adobe Premiere, it automatically modifies to normal speed.
Where as in FCP X we have to retime manually. The percentage of retiming is not consistent. We’ve tried the auto speed option, which actually slows the footage down even more (120fps shoot rate at 25fps base rate in a 25fps timeline).

Wondering if the base rate is the reason why FCP X doesn’t automatically normalize the speed of the clip?
Is there a work around for this, as we have to individually retime clips due to percentage not being consistent.

In the past we would use cinema tools to batch conform speed for our FCP 7 workflow.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Jolene van Antwerp
Wildlife Documentary Editor
South Africa, JHB

[Jolene Van antwerp]

Is there a plug in that will show the duplicate frames on the project sequence itself? Used media range in the browser doesn’t help as we are accessing multiple libraries with an average of 2,000 clips per library.

Any suggestions?

Jolene van Antwerp
Wildlife Documentary Editor
South Africa, JHB

[Jolene Van antwerp]

Hi Noah,

Thanks for your reply. I’m at picture lock with one project and will need to move over to online within a few weeks, so I thought it would be best to update to 10.3.3 after completion.

I’ve double checked and my RED plugins are actually out of date. This might be the cause, thank you for pointing it out. I will update the plugins and see if this error occurs again.

Thanks for your help!

Jolene van Antwerp
Wildlife Documentary Editor
South Africa, JHB