Slow Motion using the 7D

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Brinsfield

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The title explains it all. I have shot slow motion using the 60fps then bringing it in FCP on a 30fps sequence. I have also taken the same 60fps footage and slowed it down 50%. Needless to say, both ways failed. What am I doing wrong and what do you suggest?

Thanks to all
 
You have to conform to 30p (or 24p) in cinematools.

FCP is trying to help you out by playing your 60 over 30. it doesn't know you want it slowmo.

So you have to go to cinema tools and conform it.

All you do in cinema tools is select the clip and conform and it's instant.
 
Richard, I thought that when you conform the footage you are only changing the flags that tell the player how many FPS to play back at. There is no actual conversion happening, so no information is thrown away or lost. You can easily change the footage back to normal speed by conforming it back to 60p. The only time I would make duplicates is if I wanted to import one into FCP at normal speed and one in slow motion so that I can use both or either without changing the speed at all in FCP.

However, I usually use Premiere and am speaking from my limited experience with FCP. Please correct me if I am wrong.
 
deltoidjohn said:
Richard, I thought that when you conform the footage you are only changing the flags that tell the player how many FPS to play back at. There is no actual conversion happening, so no information is thrown away or lost. You can easily change the footage back to normal speed by conforming it back to 60p. The only time I would make duplicates is if I wanted to import one into FCP at normal speed and one in slow motion so that I can use both or either without changing the speed at all in FCP.

However, I usually use Premiere and am speaking from my limited experience with FCP. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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If there is a way to bring it back, I have no idea how to do it. But Premiere may be different.
 
Ok got it.

@ROCKMORE: In PP you can right click the footage in the media window and select interpret footage. I prefer doing it this way because I can't inadvertantly change it back (by deleting a keyframe, etc)
 
deltoidjohn said:
Ok got it.

@ROCKMORE: In PP you can right click the footage in the media window and select interpret footage. I prefer doing it this way because I can't inadvertantly change it back (by deleting a keyframe, etc)
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The 1080 files are still a little choppy with CS4, but I built a new i7 PC a few months ago and the 720 footage at 40%/60p , 50%/50p both play great on the timeline.
Your should back up all your important files anyway. SHt happens from time to time in cyberspace.
 
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