Slow motion export..

So I just got motion and I created a 1080i60 HDV project and imported my clip (4 seconds). I slowed it to 25 percent speed and used optical flow. once it finished I exported it as HDV1080i60 and tried to play it in quicktime (because it was uber jerky in Motion to the point where I couldn't enjoy even a small portion of the clip.) it playedback just as jerky in quicktime and it also played back in a 4:3 aspect ratio.
I brought it into FCP and it seemed the proper aspect. so I tried to export again and it went back to 4:3.
is there a particular thing I'm not doing?

In your EXPORT Settings, make sure your field dominance is set to none. and tick the anamorphic option. If you already did that then when watching in QT: "press Apple J" and under "presentation tick "encoded or clean"
Other that that welcome to the world of HDV!
Nava

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I'm using a QuickTime MOV file (H.264, 1080p/59.94fps, 15 seconds) and have set slow motion to 50% (= 30 seconds).
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If you want to make absolutely sure you won't lose frames, you should manually set a project to 29.97fps, import your 60/59.94fps and conform the video (Retime menu > Conform Speed [the retime menu is the 2nd one from the left over the effects browser area/under the inspector area]). FCPX will automatically frame for frame adjust the video to fit to the slower frame rate.
Key frames (video compression, not animation): a key frame is a complete image -- 100% pixels in use. Every frame between the key frames are only the parts of the image that change from the last frame (like Cel animation). Setting Automatic allows the software to make the best choices of when and where to create a complete frame. Otherwise, you can experiment with different values (up to All, which is pretty much no compression) to see what kinds of results you get and the overall quality (use very short pieces, like 5 -10 seconds.) High motion areas in video are always going to be the most challenging with respect to compression (particularly bitrate), so... it's worth figuring out what settings you like that will give the best results (and 5-10second clips don't take that long to render.) I generally use Automatic and adjust the bitrates to give the best overall results (which occasionally requires testing segments.)
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thx, i can't see where you do that (access the function to slow the motion of a clip). in the help file it says to 'right click' on the clip to access those functions but when i do i get these optios below (no motion, pan, zoom, pan and zoom). i want access the speed/duration sliders.
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I have a project with footage taken at either 24p or 60i settings on a Canon HF200. I'm using 7.0.1, ProRes 422 selected. Frame size is set to 1920x1080. I'm exporting using the "Share" menu and the Apple TV preset.
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Hi there. I would know how to export slow-motion videos from my phone 5s to my computer without losing any quality.

I wouldn't change applications against a deadline.
Slow motion is not an easy effect to do in post unless you shot more frames per second than you needed for standard speed. Making 30 frames a second into 60 frames requires each frame to be printed twice. What were your expectations or what have your tried before?
Especially with HDV, which starts out so heavily compressed, by the time it gets slomo'd and transcoded back to MPEG2 again, yeah, I imagine it's gonna look pretty bad. You can obtain some expensive software to do the optical flow pixel interpretation without buying FCS2 but that's up to your client's needs for smooth slow motion. Rendering optical flow, we've heard, takes for freakin' ever, even on the best machines.
Some HDV users will chime in over the next few hours or days with more helpful advice.
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Hugh,
FCExpress does not export MPEG2. Never has.
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I am trying to use JES deinterlacer to slow down a clip but cant seem to get the output in 16:9. I have followed the instructions below and keep checking the 16:9 box but the output is always squashed 4:3. I've tried fiddling with the options and cant seem to find an answer.
Does anyone have any ideas?
From JES instructions.,..
Slow-motion and fast-motion: In JES Deinterlacer's Project tab select "Project kind: Standards conversion". Select "Custom" and set "Movie speed: 0.5" for 0.5x slow-motion, 2 for 2x fast-motion and so on for other speeds. You can select speed ratios in the range of 0.1-10x with 0.01 decimal precision (with v2.7.1 the 0.1x may stall and with 0.2x the audio is out of sync. 0.25-10x are OK). THEN set the other options:
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I exported the clip as a full quality clip from iMovie5 (had to go back to it after audio trouble importing from my HDR-HC1). I get a .mov file and then use that as an input file for JES. The 'converted' file is a .mov.proj.dv file which looks like a squashed 16:9 in 4:3 window in QT. I tried importing it back into iMovie and it imports as a 4:3 with black side bars - no letterboxing. The project I am working on is a 16:9 HD format.
I havent tried any other exporting yet as I'm fairly sure if they look that way in QT and imovie then that's probably how they are.
I do notice that when I make all the settings in JES, as I outlined in my question post, once I change the aspect ratio to 16:9 and then close that window and open it again, the setting seems to have defaulted back to 4:3. I tried it several times... (Ver 2.7.3 - I think that's the latest)
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I understand when I import the clip into Final Cut Pro I choose 30fps, and then click on the clip and set it to automatic speed. Then I will get my 240fps slow-motion.
2 issues though.
I would like to have the same effect as Quicktime Player opens the file for me. Starts in normal speed and then transfers to the slow-motion. I could probably build this with speed ramp, but is there an easier way to just have it like that already?
Second issue, when I set it to automatic speed, I do not get the sound from it. In final cut pro x it sounds really weird then, just very high sounds (rain), but in Quicktime Player and on my iPhone I really hear the deep sound when the raindrop hits the ground. Any idea how to transfer that sound or how to get it?
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There is a misconception about the "slow motion videos" in iPhone.
In fact, they *really* are videos recorded with a high frame rate (up to 240fps in iPhone 6).
They are *not* in slow motion per se - even though the iPhone software may play them as such.
In fact, I'll go so far as to say that there is no such thing as slow motion videos. There are videos played in slow motion.
What happens when, say, you drop your 240fps video in a 24fps timeline, is that it plays at normal speed. This is as it should be!
The big deal is that, since your clip has all those extra frames in it, you can use FCP X to slow it down (up to 1/10 the original speed in my example) and it will use all the real frames the camera captured. Plus, you can use all the retiming features in FCP X to obtain perfectly smooth slow motion.
By means of comparison, if you slow down a video recorded at the same frame rate as the project it is in, FCP X has to make up extra frames that did not exist. Even though FCP X has some great algorithms for this (like "Optical Flow"), it can't match real captured frames.

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I have tried to slow a video clip down to 30% speed. It looks smooth when played back in FCE, but when exported to a QT movie, it becomes jerky with brief stuttering of frames.
I have tried the techniques described in other posts but nothing seems to work. First, I tried it with just frame blending. Then I superimposed a copy of the clip, and used the de-interlace/flicker filters without frame blending.
The original footage was shot on Super-8 film, transferred to DVD, and converted to DV.
Any suggestions as to how to make the slowed clip play smooth after exporting would be greatly appreciated.

Have you tried the Toltzman solution ? It works only for 50% slow down, but it seems to work better than the standard Speed command. Let me quote it from an old post:
"When you slow down a clip in FCP/FCE, the application does not use the 60 (or 50 in PAL) fields/second of interlaced video, which can help to achieve very smooth 50% speed video.
Here is a recipe for converting your 60/50 fields per second in to 60/50 frames per second for a nice, smooth slow motion effect at 50% speed.
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1) layer two copies of video in timeline over the top of each other.
2) apply a de-interlace (1) and blink (2) filter to the top copy and set the de-interlace to use the Upper field. Set the Blink filter to an on duration of 1 and an off duration of 1.
3) apply a de-interlace filter to the bottom copy and set it to Lower field.
4) Set the speed of each layer to 50% and turn OFF the frame blending.
The top layer and bottom layer should now be interleaved. The top layer will contain only the upper field (repeated across 2 frames) and the bottom layer will have the lower field (repeated across 2 frames). The Blink filter will switch back and forth between the layers to use all fields as frames.
If your field dominance is different than NTSC DV, then you'll have to reverse the de-interlace settings on each video layer
By Douglas Toltzman"
The result is that each single field (both upper and lower) is repeated twice, while with the standard Speed command only the upper field of each frame is repeated 4 times, and lower fields are discarded.
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I have a new helmet cam (Go Pro HD Hero). I have been playing around with the 5 formats for video. I did a 30 second shot with each of the 5 formats. FCP would not recognize 2 of the formats I tried to bring into Final Cut. The two formats are both of the 60 fps formats. Any thoughts? All captured as mp4.

Ok so the 60 fps formats (resolutions) are not recognized. This seems so strange because the other 3 resolutions shot by the camera import just fine. The 60 fps are not recognized:
1080p = 1920x1080 pixels (16:9), 30 fps, 15 Mbit/s data rate
960p = 1280x960 pixels (4:3), 30 fps, 12 Mbit/s data rate
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720p = 1280x720 pixels (16:9), 30 fps, 8 Mbit/s data rate
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Note this is in the paperwork with the camera:
Video Format: H.264 compression, saved as Windows- & Mac-compatible MPEG4 (.mp4) file
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1- I am having a hard time believing that 2 of these are unreadable by final cut pro. Thoughts?
2- What format using Quicktime or MPEG streamclip do I export as?
3- Any simple tutorials on Cinama tools for slow motion? - I have not used.
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