slow motion rendering problem in FCP

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davolt13

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I shot some footage at a soccer game recently. 720, 24p, Filmcam, 60 fps. Imported into FCP, everything looks fine etc. I wanted to see how well this would look in slow mo, so I reduced the speed on several clips to 50%.

One of the clips turned out fine but most all of the others get about 75% through the clip, the playhead keeps moving, but the frame is frozen.

Am I missing something obvious? Is this an issue with pulldown frames?

Working on a G5 Tower, plenty of RAM, FCP 5.0.4.

Any insight?
 
FCP Version...

FCP Version...

I'm not sure if this is the kind of problem it would cause, but its been regularly discussed that FCP 5.0.4 has a bug with ingesting P2 media. You'll want to upgrade to 5.1.1. Any materials ingested with 5.0.4 need to be deleted and you need to go back the MXFs and re-ingest with 5.1.1.

cheers.
 
It's all fully rendered, correct? Yeah, 5.1.1 is a must have for P2 material. Especially with the DVCPRO-HD Frame Rate Converter!
 
having trouble upgrading to 5.1.1. It says I need 5.1 first, but can't find that update anywhere.

Do you know if I can jump straight from 5.0.4 to 5.1.1?
 
Thanks for the tip. I know this similar theme has been rehashed and repeated millions of times, but the constant upgrading and paying for upgrades becomes a real nightmare. But I guess there are worse things in life.

Appreciate it.
 
I have same problem with 720p50 footage

I have same problem with 720p50 footage

Hi,

I'm having the same problem too - but with the PAL camera.

1. I shot some footage in 720p50.
2. I used the P2 Log to convert it to Quicktime video.
3. I place the footage onto a DVCPRO HD 720p25 timeline.

After a render, the footage works fine at 100% speed.

But then I want slo-mo, I change speed to 50% and the footage freezes during the second half of the clip.
(ie: a 7sec clip stretches to 14sec on timeline, but only first half of the clip now plays)

I have FCP 5.1.1 on a G4.

Any ideas of how I can set my 50FPS footage to play at 25FPS????

PS: I later realised that it's best to shoot in 25PN mode when wanting to do overcranking, but I still want to slow-mo the 50P footage I've already shot....
 
I finally ran into this problem yesterday! I had mistakenly put DVCPRO-HD footage into an anamorphic DV Sequence. I had RT set to Unlimited. It's an RT playback thing. Double check all your Sequence settings! I move my footage to a properly set-up DVCPRO-HD Sequence and the problem went away.
 
Chris kamen,
The way to do it: Open the quicktime file in Cinema tools, click conform, select 25 fps.

Now the Quicktime file is a 720/25p file and will play at half speed in a 720p25 sequence without rendering...
 
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