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Q: Creating slow motion "sub-clip" final cut pro 7 in cinema tools

Hello Forum!

 

I'm trying to create smooth slow motion using Final Cut Pro 7 and Cinema tools.  I want to slow motion a single "sub-clip" that is already edited and cut in the timeline but when I open the clip in Cinema Tools, it wants to slow motion the entire original video clip, and not just the "sub-clip".  Question is, how can I just slow motion this single cut sub-clip in the timeline without affecting the original entire clip.   I'm sure this is not difficult but after watching tutorial after tutorial on Youtube, I can't seem to figure out how.

 

Thank you oh so very much for your help!

Final Cut Pro 7, Mac OS X (10.7.5), Imac

Posted on Jun 7, 2016 10:11 AM

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Q: Creating slow motion "sub-clip" final cut pro 7 in cinema tools

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  • by Meg The Dog,

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog Jun 7, 2016 10:27 AM in response to tokun1
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    Jun 7, 2016 10:27 AM in response to tokun1

    You will need to extract the portion of the full clip you want to conform and save it as a separate media file. You can do this by exporting the "sub clipped" area or the file from FCP.

    Once exported, that section is a stand alone media file, and then you can use Cinema Tools to conform the frame rate.

    Bring the conformed file back into FCP and replace the subclip on the timeline with your slo-mo file.

    MtD

  • by tokun1,

    tokun1 tokun1 Jun 11, 2016 10:46 AM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Jun 11, 2016 10:46 AM in response to Meg The Dog

    Hi Mtd,

     

    Thank you for your reply.  One other question, could you take that same clip and then speed it up to get smooth "fast" motion too? I see some stuttering when I speed up a clip with"change speed". I really appreciate it!

    -Tony

  • by tokun1,

    tokun1 tokun1 Jun 11, 2016 10:53 AM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Jun 11, 2016 10:53 AM in response to Meg The Dog

    Hi MtD, I exported a quicklime movie of the clip I open and click conform but it did not change the clip at all, and I can't save it.  Thank you for your help.

  • by tokun1,

    tokun1 tokun1 Jun 11, 2016 1:04 PM in response to Meg The Dog
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    Jun 11, 2016 1:04 PM in response to Meg The Dog

    Hi Mtd, I forgot to mention the footage is originally shot at 24p, so I'm not going from 60i to 24p, (from all of the videos I watched on doing this with Cinema tools). Thank you.

  • by Meg The Dog,

    Meg The Dog Meg The Dog Jun 11, 2016 1:51 PM in response to tokun1
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    Jun 11, 2016 1:51 PM in response to tokun1

    Sorry, thoroughly confused here.

    Your original footage is 24P?

    Adjusting the frame rate via Cinema Tools to accomplish slow motion is normally done with footage that is shot at a higher frame rate than the sequence it is going to be edited in to.

    So if you've shot at 60fps, you can use Cinema Tools to tell FCP to run the clip at 29.97 (or 23.98 - what ever the frame rate of you sequence is) and so it will playback in slow-motion smoothly.

    But in order for this to work, you need to have shot at a higher frame rate.

    If you have shot at 24fps, and want to slow that down by 50%, Final Cut (or whatever software you are using) must hold each frame twice as long as real time - so you get stuttered motion.

    The only way to slow down footage shot at 24 fps smoothly (if you are not happy with the slow mo in FCP)  is to do it in software that uses optical flow, like Apple's Motion or 3rd party solutions like Twixtor.

    These will attempt to construct intermediate frames and so make the slow motion apparently smoother.

     

    MtD