Ripple edit on slow motion clip

If I have built a timeline and want to insert a clip then slow motion it, the whole thing ripple edits. If I make a new channel thats empty and do the same the whole thing ripple edits, I end up having to lock all my channels below then do it, is there a better way because it seems wrong and adds time to my job,
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daz

I don't think moving it up a track works, as you've found...and I don't believe it's a setting in FCP that can be changed.
You can move it to the end of the timeline and make the adjustment or as stated, do this in the viewer.
Another option is to create a 'Working' sequence and do it there. This is the way I do it, in case the timing doesn't work, you can quickly make adjustments in the alternate timeline.
K

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I wondered why one project was slower than a similar sized other project (20 min). I moved the project cursor from the end of the project systemmatically towards the start. As I moved it, response got slower and slower. This was the clue. I started to set 50% clips back to 100% as I went backwards through the project and performace rapidly increased. I had both sound and video tracks in the project. Therefore, the more slow motion clips you use the slower editing will become as you progress towards the start of your project.

Did they import as a single long clip?
I would recommend dragging the long DV clip into MPEG Streamclip (a free app from Squared 5).
You can drag the long clip into MPEG Streamclip and divide the long clip into multiple shorter clips. You might divide it into logical events (all clips shot on the same day) or you could make a new clip every time record/pause button is pressed.
Move the playhead to the in point and press I, move the playhead to the Out point and press O. Then File/Export to DV. Repeat until you have all the clips.
Hint: If you know the date and time the clips were shot, give the files a name in the form clip-yyyy-mm-dd hh;mm;ss.ext where hh is hours in 24 hour time and ext is the current file extension (in your case DV).
Then use FILE/IMPORT/Movies... to import into iMovie as separate events.
That should give you good performance.

Searching for a low-cost plug for doing better slow motion clips.

Where can I find a low-cost or free plug-in for doing better slow motion clips? I produce alot of sports videos and use FCPHD but am looking for better quality. I am not necessarily looking for time-remapping (it confuses the ** out of me). Just want to simply slow down clips and not be as choppy as FCP turns out.
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Any tips on making slow motion clips "smoother" (interpolation)?

I was not able to find this in the documentation.
I need to render a sequence with a clip that is at 40% speed (slow motion), this clip is of a time lapse weather (clouds) video.
I would like to know what type of interpolation Final Cut Pro uses (if any) and if there are any methods to improve the fludity of clips that are set to slow motion. Right now the section of the rendered video where the slow motion clip is (the clouds) appear a bit "jumpy' and I would like to have them a bit "smoother".

Thanks, I've tried a couple from everyone's suggestions; from frame blend, to motion blur, and to the optical flow (in Motion).
The problem is that with cloud time lapse video in slow motion there is still some level of "jumpyness" from one frame (one time lapse frame, not frame in the video file) to the other.
With optical flow, it is quite nice, but it makes it move incredibly smooth from one frame, but then pauses, and then incredibly smooth to the next, so it's not really usable for cloud time lapse video.
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Sure Tom,
I edited shots in my sequence, it is a montage of slow motion shots each around 1sec. long at 50% speed. I want to letterbox the shots and treat each with a filter. Strobe them or glow effect, etc. I am opening the effects window and dragging the filter icon onto the clip on my sequence. Then I double click the clip on my time line and open it in the viewer to adjust the filter. When I do this I can not see the filter effect. It's as if there is not an effect on the clip. Is it because I am trying to put a filter on a clip that is at 50% speed? Do I have to put it on the clip before I change the speed?

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Slow motion clip upload - found solution

Hey All. I always carrry my iphone with me, so its my go-to video camera, most of the time now. I love sharing stories with it. I've found I can upload to Youtube or Vimeo stratight out of my iPhone and adjust the 120 fps playback speed using iMovie. I'm amazing. I took a train from Vancouver to Seattle and then on to the Ferry to the islands, so I had an opportunity to shoot through the windows of the train, bus and on the ferry. I tried several ways to stablize the shots, and my best results came from holding my Iphone with both hands lightly and just a few inches from my face.
Even the vibration on the feery seems to have been stablized much better than the 4S I used before.
this is my iPhone 5S + iMovie in the 5S. Much faster editing then my 4S, and the compressed quality stands up on 1080p TV.
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Upgrade to iMovie 06 for effects.
More info here,
http://www.geethree.com/slick/imovie8.html
iMovie link,
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Problem with slow motion reversed clips

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I've imported clips into iMovie 11 and can apply slow motion through Clip Adjustments. When I try to do both Slow Motion and Reverse all I get is a still clip. I tried both copying an existing Slow Motion clip and tried to reverse it and tried applying Reverse and Slow Motion at the same time to a normal clip without success. I've tried it with and without Stabilization. Any ideas?

You are not alone! But I have not found a way to resolve the problem either! Could it be a fps problem?

What is the suggested frame rate to record in for fast / slow motion processing from a clip recorded

I want to create a video however I only have 1 dslr camera and I want the ability to post process the clips I record to be either in slow motion or fast motion. I don't want to have to record something in 24fps then 60fps. is there an ideal frame rate for both. What are some of the best practices for this in regards to recording and post processing in Premiere Pro.
Example of fast and slow video. Thanks.
http://vimeo.com/75259949

The ideal is to shoot in different frame rates, one for real time footage and one for fast or slow motion clips. This is called under and overcranking. It means you have to decide when shooting whether the clip will be real time or not.
Less than ideal is to shoot everything at one frame rate and then slow it down or speed it up later. It's less than ideal because the effect is never as perfect as the ideal method. Especially in PP, which does not do very well with slow motion to the point I recommend using After Effects instead. (At least with 24 fps media.)
On a side note, you can help solve the horrible slow-motion problem:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1369265?tstart=60

Hdv with slow motion does flicker

I´m editing now some clips at 1080 i and I need to use some slow motion clips. I use speed at 60 % and also active frame blendding and all it´s ok and I haven´t any trouble with the video. But when I do render I can see a big flicker at the picture. I put some deinterlace or flicker filter and all beccomee good but when I do render another time and export the movie I can see the flicker. The trouble is like final cut can´t apply the filters because if I mark frame blending at speed and save it, when I open fcp another time the effects was not in this place.
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Maybe it has something to do with HDV? Can you switch your sequence rendering to ProRes? CMD+0 to enter your sequence settings. Click on the Render Control tab. Under Codec, choose Apple ProRes.
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Does the duration of the video change after putting a slow motion effect?

Hi, I'm new with this After Effect software, and through researches and youtube videos, i learned how to make a slow motion clip, but i found a problem just after i was so happy to learn something new. Because I was so excited to try it out, i took a quick 3secs clip and edited it, after all the successful application of the slow motions, the clip suddenly stop without finishing the whole video, the duration of the clip remains 3 seconds after i applied the slow motion, i was hoping that the duration would go over 3 seconds because the slow motioned part was only at 5% the original speed.
So my question is, is the duration really supposed to stay the same after the slow motion is applied or should it expand finishing the whole video.? Then what should I do if the duration doesn't expand?
Pls give me a respond, thx.:))

Nah, that's just not how it works. AE will only extend layers if you use the native time-stretch/ time-remapping. If you use the Timewarp, you will have to pre-compose the source clip to a comp with longer duration and then apply the slow motion.
Mylenium

Only part of your film in slow-motion

Hi all... first timer here (I seem to be saying that a lot lately)....
I have seen a lot of tutorials on how to make a slow-motion clip (I will be using Premiere Pro 6) but I have not seen anything on how to make only a portion of your project in slow-motion. I assume it can be done fairly easily using my software.... just would like simple, clear steps in order to understand it.
I also do not want to shoot my whole documentary/promo projects in 60fps.... just the parts I want in slow-mo. In other words I want to be able to combine my regular 7-d 24 fps grabs and my slow-mo 60 fps footage in the timeline and work with them that way.... if indeed that's how it is done...
That's it...
Thanks for reading and I hope we can start a nice discussion on this topic.
Ray
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You can only really say you're a first-timer once.
Look into "time remapping." Or...
You can also split a clip, and put a time scale on the split portion, while enabling rippling.

60fps Reverse Slow Motion Bug?

I have been playing with slow motion in iMovie using 60fps source footage (i.e. 60fps clips in a 30fps project). It does a decent job but I have come across some strange behaviour when playing the slow motion clips in reverse. It appears that iMovie losses it's nice smooth slow motion when the clip is played in reverse. By this I mean that in reverse the nice smooth 60fps@50% clips look the same as 30fps@50% clips, they are choppy.
Take a look a this clip for an example: http://vimeo.com/27162470 (just uploaded and currently being processed by Vimeo, may or may not be ready for viewing yet)
I cannot figure out why. Wonder if this is a bug/limitation in iMovie or if I'm missing a setting somewhere. I suspect the former.
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One possible workaround is to reverse the clip before importing into iMovie but I have yet to find a tool other than iMovie that will let me do that easily. Some quick investigation into MPEG Streamclip, Handbrake, and ffmpeg didn't turn up much.
Anyone know of a tool that will allow me to reverse the clip before importing into iMovie?

Ripple edit on slow motion clip

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