50P to 25P looks unnaturally fast???

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lipslide

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Hey guys,

I thought I might just share this with you to see if anybody else is finding the same thing.

I've been shooting a bit of stuff at PAL 50P for slow motion. I assumed that doubling it's speed in Final Cut would give me real time footage at 25P. In theory this seems reasonable. However, when I double the speed in Final Cut the footage looks just a little too quick to be real time, it's quite obvious.

I can't think of a reason for this to be so, has anybody else tried this? I can't believe that it's final cut that's doing it, nor can I accept that the HVX's inner workings are out by a fraction of a second?

Anybody have a a plausible explanation for this?
 
Well it is going to look a bit odd because you're throwing away frames. Best way to get 25p is to shoot 25p not speed up 50. Try playing with the frame blending settings in Time remap.

Noah
 
Thanks, I'll have a play and see what happens.

I was hoping that I could shoot everything in 50p, speed up the majority of it to real time, and if I wanted to utilise the slow motion effect, I wouldn't have to do it in post, just play it back with the full 50 frames.

I'll see what sort of results come from playing with Frame Blending, although I was trying to avoid that look.
 
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