Basic Questions

LiamR

LiamR

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I'm 'trying' to make the move over from FCP to CS6 and I have googled extensively and still haven't found some basic answers to my questions,

Slow Motion... I have 50 & 60p files that I am trying to overcrank to 24p and all I have heard is to right click - speed & duration and then bring down the speed to 40%, this causes very crap playback, it's even adding a frame... I tried 50%, etc.. this just doesn't sound right and does not sound like proper over cranking either, you can do the exact same in FCP and the results are also horrible, is there a 'Cinema Tools' of Premiere in which you can conform 50/60p footage to 24p? or will I have to do this in FCP?

Full Screen.... I have read about this maxamise frame or ` technique and the quality looks bad and it's still not full screen, is there a better option, where you can get complete full screen and the same quality? I am going to dual screen test today...

Is there a 'snap' like feature with the cutting tool, so where ever you have the timeline toggle set to, it'll go directly onto that, not 1mm that way or 1mm this way...??

Cheers
 
LiamR said:
I'm 'trying' to make the move over from FCP to CS6 and I have googled extensively and still haven't found some basic answers to my questions,
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Hope I can help...

LiamR said:
Slow Motion... I have 50 & 60p files that I am trying to overcrank to 24p and all I have heard is to right click - speed & duration and then bring down the speed to 40%
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Urrrggghhh!!! What horrible way to do it! What I think you're looking for is this:

* In the "Project" panel, NOT the timeline, right click on a clip -> Modify -> Interpret Footage.
* Pick "Assume this frame rate" and enter the desired rate -- i.e. 24 (or 23.976).

LiamR said:
Full Screen.... I have read about this maxamise frame or ` technique and the quality looks bad and it's still not full screen, is there a better option, where you can get complete full screen and the same quality? I am going to dual screen test today...
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Complete full screen....? Sorry, dunno, without an external monitor. But if the quality is bad, right click and set "Playback resolution" and "Paused resolution" to full.

LiamR said:
Is there a 'snap' like feature with the cutting tool, so where ever you have the timeline toggle set to, it'll go directly onto that, not 1mm that way or 1mm this way...??
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With magnet on, the razor tool snaps to the timeline scrubber. However it doesn't look like it does, which is kind of lame; you just have to have a little faith there. I.e. the actual cut will be made at the scrubber, as long as you're pretty close to it.

Cheers!
 
Oh, I cannot thank you enough! cheers.

I do have one other question, is there some form of 'smooth cam' like featured in FCP or will I have to do heavy after effects work?
 
No problem! I'm not familiar with FCP, but I guess you mean an image stabilizer? Go to Effects, type "stab" in the search box, it should throw up "Warp Stabilizer". That does a pretty good job.
 
This is making the transition much easier guys, cheers!

The Wrap Stabilizer is what I was after, unfortunately, I am working in a 1920x816 Timeline, and it requires the clips to be the same dimensions as the timeline, is there anyway, other than to put that clip in a separate timeline and then export, to change the dimensions from 1920x1080??
 
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LiamR said:
... unfortunately, I am working in a 1920x816 Timeline, and it requires the clips to be the same dimensions as the timeline
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Huh, weird. I never hit that before, and it seems like an odd restriction.

Anyhow the workaround is easy, just put the clip into a sequence which is 1920x816, and use that sequence in your main timeline. To do this:

* In your 1920x816 timeline, right-click the clip you need to stabilize -> "Nest".
* Now you have "Nested sequence 01" in your timeline; add the warp stabilizer effect to that.

In general nested sequences are a very powerful tool to get PP to treat a modified clip or timeline as if it were a simple clip. The "Nest" command puts the clip (stack of clips, sequence of clips, whatever) as it appears in your timeline into a new sequence tailor-made for it (in this case 1920x816), and instantly replaces the nested clip(s) with this new sequence.

Cheers!
 
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