A1 slo mo

Noel Evans

Noel Evans

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Whilst I didnt have any slo mo on hand, I wanted to produce a clip that shows the A1 slo mo via FCP is every bit as good as any prosumer cam on the market. No twixtor or the like. I decided however that this would better serve A1 and FCS2 users as an example and a bit on the process.

First, shot 1080/60i with 1/120th shutter speed.
Second, clip capture as standard.
Third, bring in to a 29.97 timeline.
Fourth, export in compressor a 59.97 progressive frames per second. Changing all frame controls to best settings.
Fifth, import into a 24fps timeline and set speed to 40% and done.

Clip is small just 1.8mb. It's a boring clip, nothing else to shoot so I am sorry about my vacuum cleaner and - I just realised, my big ugly feet.

Anyway nothing but clean perfect slow motion duh - http://www.scarlet-films.com/randoms/a1slo.mov

P.S. if youre wondering about the floor, its a fake wood grain thats padded. Its great for wood floor rooms that give crap ass audio reverb. I take it many places.
 
Muha,
do little children scream "Godzilla!" when you walk the streets in Tokyo ?:evil:
Couldn´t resist, sorry...
The slo-mo looks good, never needed the HVXs so far so I can´t compare, but it doesn´t look fake like the ones from simple TV programms (news aso)...
 
Want to add - I didnt include a streaming header so just let it load (all of 1.8mb) and then play.
 
Good post, ncje. I've had some great results shooting 1080i for slo mo too. The optical flow technology in Compressor (inherited from Shake) is really incredible.

1080i frame:
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A frame from conversion to 1080p 59.97
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Hi all - long time reader - first time poster

-Random slo mo tip for final cut users-

This may sound quite simplistic but i have had some success with slo mo in final Cut (havent installed FCS2 yet - although i have had the box for 2 months - just finishing a big project)

by doing a few tweaks- slowing down standard DV clip and then double clicking to bring up the viewer - put motion blur to zero and render. You can get speeds down to 20% with pretty reasonable results - and its a quick workflow - no jumping in and out of diferent settings / timelines.

Caveates-I down convert from HDV to DV at capture ( to keep render times quick) as i am still delivering in SD (DVD, web) - pictures are still plenty pretty as i am shooting in clear sunlight with blue water, reflections white spray etc.- good light and colors lets me get away with alot of basic camera gear.

This is HC3 footage at auto settings (mostly water housing windsurf and kitesurf footage)

I work in pal

I posted this one on the apple forum and quite a few people were surprised and perplexed by the good results. This may or may not continue to work in FCS2 - hopefully it saves some readers the headaches i went through to get acceptable slo mo in final cut.
 
Oh my god...that pinky toe...did you see that...

Sorry...er...umm...

Thanks. I'm debating over the AHA1 (less expensive) and the HVX.
 
Okay, I'm an idiot.
I've got the A1 and shot some footage at 1080/60i with a 120 and even a 250 shutter speed.

So, I imported it into an HDV 1080/60i timeline.
Now what?
I used the de-interlace tool in the filters of FCP to deinterlace it, but what format do I export it to???
There is no HDV 1080/60p in my version of FCP, which is 5.1.4. BTW, I have FCS so I pocess Compressor, if that helps.

I understand I'm suppose to have a 1080/60p image that I import into a 1080/24p timeline and slow it down 40%.

What the hell am I doing wrong???
 
Elton the fringing on that fence shot is horrible. One of the things I fear in considering an A1 purchase.
 
There's no doubt, CA is plenty obvious here and there. On that shot I was fairly wide open, so I'm sure that exacerbated the problem some. Btw, that's a shot with the 6x WA lens for the XL-H1.

I can understand your concerns, but my thoughts are simple on the subject: if you're looking for CA-free performance, especially in the entry-level HD category, you'll be sorely disappointed. All have the issue, to greater or lesser degrees. (Canon and JVC probably have it the worst)

I'll partially quote Timur from another thread to close things out here--"...but if a little chroma abberation is ruining your movie, youve got bigger problems than a crappy lens...."
 
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