Slow Motion in FCP

Is there any way to simply apply slow-motion directly in FCP. I tried altering the speed % on the motion tab but the results were poor.
I'm trying to move from a lower end PC based product (pinnacle studio) and it had the ability to change the speed and apply smoothing to the output.
Thanks for your help
John

Speed effects can be applied by the motion tab in the viewer or by ctrl+clicking a clip already in the timeline. FCP's handling of speed effects are alright, but it mostly depends on what kind of footage you are working with. DV has poor results while things look better with DVCPro50 and uncompressed compressions.
If you aren't happy with the results you might want to try deselecting frame blur and experiment with different speeds. I use After Effects for any time remapping but you may get better results with Motion (although i haven't used it).

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I have researched this, and it seems it is a common problem, with many contradictory answers. I have FCP NTSC, and am uploading HDV. When I slow it down, it becomes jittery and choppy. I hear this was an issue in the PAL version, but it seems to be an issue with my editing as well. We shot it in 60i by the way. Unfortunately I don't have any other associated programs, just FCP 5 (so no ProRes, though I would like to get my hands on it). Anyhoo, some good input is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Bare in mind that you are trying to make less frames persist over a longer duration. When you do a slow motion adjustment, you have to duplicate frames, which makes your footage look steppy. I have found that anything more than about 75% of the original speed looks quite choppy. Frame blending will cover a little bit, but when you look at overcranked footage and compare the two, you can really see the difference. If you use Shake or Motion for the slow-mo, you can utilize the optical reflow machine which will create interpolated frames to help with the missing information.

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I've been reading many threads, but haven't figured if you can actually shoot true 1080i/24P on my HVX-200 with menu frame rate set to 60fps/shutter 60fps. The times I've tried it shows 24P in the menu frame rate and will not playback on the P2 in true slow motion so I can import into FCP slow motion at 1080i/24P without conversion.
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www.IllusiveMedia.com

haven't figured if you can actually shoot true 1080i/24P on my HVX-200 with menu frame rate set to 60fps/shutter 60fps
You can't. 720p is the only format that is 60fps. 1080i is 30fps.
From everything I've seen it shows it has to be in 720/24P with menu frame rate at 60fps/shutter 60fps which will let it playback on the P2 in slow motion.
Correct. You can only shoot in-camera slow motion at 720p60, using the 24p setting. And this is also the way to shoot so you can slow it down later with Cinema Tools or in FCP. It must be 720p60. Again, 1080i is 30fps only. Even 1080p...30fps with DVCPRO HD.
Any suggestions? We want to shoot everything in 1080i/24P but see instant playback in slow motion without conversion mostly for music videos.
Sorry, if you want to shoot smooth slow motion, you need to shoot 720p. If you must shoot 1080p, then you need to invest in good post slow-motion options, like Twixtor.
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How can I get my slow motion shot to FCP

Hi
I shoot in DVCPRO HD 720p 50 @ 50FPS, how can i import to the FCP to get the slow motion? If i shoot in High frame rate, 720p 25 or 50 is better?
Thanks

Ah...see, if you said that at the Cow...
Let's see if Cinema Tools will do it.
OK...on your capture scratch drive, locate that clip and DUPLICATE IT. This is important, as you will now be changing the clip forever. Open Cinema Tools...cancel the Database query. Now...Open the clip...FILE>Open. When it is open, to to the CLIP menu and select CONFORM. See if you can conform the 50p clip to a 25P clip. Not having access to a PAL clip, I don't know if this will work...but it is worth a try.
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FCP 7. Best technique for slow motion

What is the best techique or plugin for effective slow motion?
Right-clicking on a clip and adjusting time is not good. I have tried sending to Motion and adjusting the timing there but it softens the image.
Is Twixtor the way to go??
Thanks

I'm late to the party but somehow I ended up here. I'm reteaching myself this now. I remember Captain Mench had a solution for this on the ProVideoCoalition site at one point for taking 60i footage and conforming to 24p using Shake. The key element was Optical Flow, Motion uses OF as you know. But I've just been doing a bunch of tests all night with some 60p (59.94) that we shot last week. The CrumplePop tut is the one I've been following for Motion 4 and some random youtube stuff using Time Warp for AE tests. The consensus seems to be each technique, including Twixtor, has limitations depending on the footage. AE better in one instance, Motion/Shake/Boris Red in another, Twixtor generally better than everything but still with flaws. Let alone the other factors like did you shoot 60p to begin with? Was the shutter 1/60 or 1/1600? Other great tidbits like this slomo conversion chart and this other Motion tut, 3 steps and bang! I gotta go to sleep, hope this helps.
Forgot this guy, of course he has some great tips from his friend on using Twixtor.

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.
Sorry for my English

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.
Andy

Slow Motion Problems

I've been using FCP now for many projects, and this is the first time I have had this problem. I will use slow motion on a clip and render it. But when I play the clip back, it will skip ahead in the clip, and then freeze. For example, people walking down the street. The clip is 3 seconds and I slow it to 6 seconds. As people are walking, about every 5 frames the picture jumps. Then at 4 seconds into the clip it freezes and plays that frame for the remaining 2 seconds. I never had this problem before, and I'm at a loss as to what is wrong. Does anyone have any ideas? I'm almost at the point where I want to just reinstall the whole FCS!

It depends on the formats you import. Are you slowing your footage down -100%? make sure you have constant speed checked. Maybe your time remapping it.

IPhone 6 240fps slow-motion import

Hey everyone,
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?
Probably needs an upcoming update FCPX?
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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.

Why are my clips shaking after slow motion?

I captured clips from my Canon 7d and converted the clip through mpeg stream clip, pro res, 60 frames, full HD. When I imported it into FCP and set the speed to 50% (or any speed, except normal) the top of the clip shakes the entire time, before I made the clip in slow motion there was no shake.
Any ideas why this is happening?

Did you shoot 720p 60? That is the only format that shoots 60fps.
Conform with CINEMA TOOLS. doing a speed change in FCP doesn't do it right.
Shane

Slow motion looking bad

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.
Slow motion in FCE using both fields of Interlace video to get smoother slow motion at 50% (uses all 60 fields).
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.
Piero

Slow Motion choppy

I've tried to slow down a clip in FCP, and also did a trick with Compressor that's talked about in another discussion on here, and with both attempts, I'm ending up with choppy slow motion. What it's doing is holding on each frame for a period of time (depending on how much it's slowed down), instead of flowing smoothly between the frames and giving a nice slow-mo effect. Rather, it looks like a render job or something, frame by frame, da-da-da-da....and on.
Does anyone have any idea as to why it'd be acting like this? The sequence is set to 29.97 - the footage was captured from a DVcam, firewire, 29.97.
I got the tape from another person who filmed it - there's a chance that it was shot in 24p - could that be the problem? I took the tape and put it in my Sony Handycam to capture the footage. (I think the camera used to record was a Canon - a nicer, higher-end one, but not quite sure if it was 24p).
Thanks for any help.
Brian,.
Quad-core 2.5 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 30" Apple Cinema Display

I found out that the footage was shot at 24p with a Panasonic AG-DVX100. I was given the tape and captured it with my Sony HandyCam via firewire (hopefully that doesn't cause any problems - so far it looks good when playing back at normal speed).
As far as higher frame rate goes, I am used to doing slo-mo in FCP with footage that I shoot with my Sony cam - at 29.97, and it doesn't behave like this.
When I do the Compressor trick, it looks very similar to slowing it down in FCP, maybe just a little cleaner, but the timing and "pausing on frames" is the same.
If I understand you correctly, I don't believe it was "pre-processed" by de-interlacing, unless that would occur in the way I made the quicktime or something (but I doubt it - I did it as you explained).
Thanks for all the help.
Brian,.
Quad-core 2.5 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.3) 30" Apple Cinema Display

720p 60 fps slow motion

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
*720p = 1280x720 pixels (16:9), 60 fps, 15 Mbit/s data rate*
720p = 1280x720 pixels (16:9), 30 fps, 8 Mbit/s data rate
*WVGA = 848x480 pixels (16:9), 60 fps, 8 Mbit/s data rate*
Note this is in the paperwork with the camera:
Video Format: H.264 compression, saved as Windows- & Mac-compatible MPEG4 (.mp4) file
I am able to bring all 5 test resolution clips I made onto my desktop. They all play with Quicktime, MPEG streamclip.
Here is the camera:
http://www.goprocamera.com/index.php?area=2&productid=29
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.
This will be used on a vacation in a few days and the footage will be combined/edited with/in a movie with my standard 16x9 footage from my camcorder
Thanks for the help.

Slow motion effect

I was wondering how to get that slow motion effect that is so commonly used i music videos. I have a canon xha1 that shoots 60i and 50i. To achieve this effect do I do it all in FCP, or is a combination of having the fps high and then the sequence at 24. I could do it in FCP, but it doesn't look clean. If any body has anysuggestions, thankyou. peace. E.

Final Cut Pro can do slow motion with or without frame blending. In both instances you are creating duplicates of frames in order to create a slow motion effect. These look okay in video but with the effects you are talking about are done with large production values where the shots are done with slow mags where the film is running at a high rate of speed to get more frames in an action. There are cameras today that allow you to over and under crank footage but mainly they are tapeless formats where you are recording to hard drives, disks or cards.
you might want to investigate After Effects version 7 or later where it does time warping where individual pixels are blended rather than an entire frame like in Final Cut.

Tried to shoot 60 FPS for slow motion, but ...

I have a DVCPro HD clip, 720P, 59.94 frames per second. I was hoping to get a medium slow-motion effect in FCP. So I imported it and put it in a 23.97 frames per second sequence. It shows at regular speed. Hmmm...
I looked at the clip in the Viewer. I found a part of the action that lasts one second, and I counted 60 frames for that second. But in the Sequence, that same action shows only 24 frames.
Then I got a brilliant idea! I used Modify - Speed to slow it down to 40%. I hoped I would see all 60 frames of that one-second bit of action. But instead of showing all 60 frames, FCP uses only about 24 frames, and copies each frame once or twice to stretch out the action. So the action looks jumpy instead of smooth.
A friend last last month shot something with the Panasonic HVX200 at DVCProHD 59.54 FPS, and he got a smooth slow motion effect in FCP. But he moved out and isn't answering his phone.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

I owe everyone an apology, because I gave the wrong information about the video file. As you will recall, I was frustrated that it appeared to play at only 23.97 frames per second in Final Cut Pro, even though I thought I had shot it at 60 fps. Yesterday I discovered why it appeared to play at a different frame rate, but the reason was so bizarre, so unbelievable, that I began to doubt my own sanity.
Friends, the video clip changes frame rate in the middle! Yes, it does. You see, I had been looking at a portion of the shot with the lower frame rate; later in the same shot, the frame rate increased to 60 fps. You may ask, how is this possible? I do not know. I only know that I shot it with the little Sanyo HD1000 camcorder, which records as AVCHD (h.264), and the clip changed to a slower frame rate when the shot got darker, then back to 60 fps when the shot got brighter. Apparently the camcorder reacted to the lack of light by decreasing the frame rate, in order to have time to gather more light for each frame.

Strange "strobe" effect when doing slow motion

hi
after using fcp for a year now, i strangly encountered a problem in a video i need to deliver in 2 days.
whenever i did a 50% slow motion i get a strange "strobe" effect. when the frame is more or less static then you wont be able to see it but when the camera pans or the object in the frame moves it is very disturbing.
this is only noticable when viewed on a tv set, not on my display.
i thought it was in the encoding so i did the whole "export using QT" again, this time making sure its 2 pass VBR 6.8 to 8 mbps. still there.
i am working on a Pal system without a monitor so i burned the video onto a dvd using dvdsp (as usual) and then played it in a pal dvd player and tv but this strobe thing is still there.
b.t.w the interlace option on the "export using QT" was set as auto, the same as always.
i didnt do anything different this time but still i get that problem. what could it be ? all the settings in fcp settings are set to 100% quality and the video is fully rendered.
i appriciate your comments and help.
thanx
nir evron

hi jim and thanx for the quick reply...
i used to do my slo-mo in fcp without any problems till today.
b.t.w - im editing DV PAL.
i dont have motion so i'm stuck to fcp.
any suggestions ?
thanx
nir

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