Whitewater Forum: FCP Pros?

FCP Pros?

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Topic: FCP Pros?

Posted By: tiziak
Subject: FCP Pros?
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2012 at 8:31am

I've got some questions about speed changes in FCP 7.

Anybody use final cut a lot? Lets connect.

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Daniel Patrinellis
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Posted By: ellsw121
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2012 at 11:42am

Whats your question, I use it quite often and know of a person that majored in FCP in College? you can always message Fred N. If I dont know I usually ask him and he shoots me straight.

Posted By: tiziak
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2012 at 3:06pm

I shoot everything in 60fps; be it on the 7d or the GoPro.

FCP runs its timeline at 24fps.

Soooo... if I just import the footage with log and capture, it drops every other frame. So, if I slow it down, its no longer 60fps slowed down, its 24fps slowed down= glitchy.

If I use motion to conform to 24fps, looks crystal clear, but twice the frames in teh same timeline, therefore, runs at less than half the speed. If I increase the speed to about 225% to get normal looking motion, I get wierd atrifacts on colors like paddle blades and trees.

How can I take advantage of my 60fps in a 24fps timeline without getting the artifacts?

Motion will not allow me to only conform a selected portion of the clip while it is in the timeline or slug, I am forced to conform the entire clip, or nothing at all.

Did any of that make sense?

Cheers

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If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

Daniel Patrinellis
360.434.4616

Posted By: ellsw121
Date Posted: 01 Mar 2012 at 6:25pm

Use Cinema Tools, which is part of the Final Cut Pro package. My workflow is such:

1 Make a copy of all of the original media so that you have an unmodified, unaffected version to fall back on

2]Open Cinema Tools and do a batch conversion of the footage files, setting the frame rate to be whatever you want

3 CinemaTools VERY QUICKLY (like, in a matter of a few seconds) changes the frame rate settings on each clip to the new frame rate, essentially "baking it" into the raw 7D .MOV (which is why it's a good idea to save an original version of the footage somewhere)

4 Import via AMA or transcode the footage into Media Composer...

5 Done! Slo-Mo, AMA still an option, and it only takes a couple of seconds to do it.

Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions. This can be done with either FCP or Avid.

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