IMovie 08 - Creating Slow Motion

I want to make a segment of my iMovie video into slow motion. I believe that there is a profcess that you have to put the clip through before it can be done. Can anyone help??? Thanks in advance.
-MacPaige

MacPaige wrote:
I want to make a segment of my iMovie video into slow motion. I believe that there is a profcess that you have to put the clip through before it can be done. Can anyone help???
maybe my old website can help you
http://sites.google.com/site/karstenschluter/slowmowithim08

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http://www.wowzamedia.com/)
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comes with the
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>
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When I open a video make with gopro a 120 fps under the timeline( in quicktime) there is a timeline for the slowmotion that show me automatically the video in slowmotion. I don't want this and i'd like to know how i can remove it.
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I know this....but is like close the eyes to don't see the problem.....i need 120 fps.
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BASIC RULES OF THUMB FOR NON-PROFESSIONAL USERS:
Use high frame rate recording modes if you think there is even a remote possibility that you will be creating slow motion clips/segments from your recorded content AND you have sufficient storage media AND battery life to handle the project at hand.
Use the most current QT X or IOS 8 media players to quickly preview or share high frame rate clips with slow motion effects without having to access professional or dedicated video editing software.
Use the most current QT X or IOS 8 media players to create and save slow motion settings that can be recalled later.
Use a professional or dedicated video editing app to create and/or share slow motion project content where frame accuracy and/or fluxing is paramount.
Use an alternative media player to preview high frame rate clips when viewing content at its original frame rate AND it is too much trouble for you to adjust these players for non-slomo playback (i.e., a single swipe of a finger or clicked mouse). But remember that higher frame rates and higher resolutions mean higher playback data rates which may make playback "choppy" at best on some systems. (E.g., my 720p120 sample file has a data rate on the order of a VC-1 encoded Blu-ray disc.)
Hope this post may be of use to amateur videography Mac users contemplating the use of newer, high-speed video recording devices and how to use the basic support now available in the latest Mac OS X and IOS 8 operating systems as part of Apple's QT X modernization program.
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