SmoothCam Doubling the Speed of my Clips

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SmoothCam Doubling the Speed of my Clips

So I'm not sure what I'm doing, I have tried it with several clips now and I always run into the same problem.

When I apply smoothcam to a video clip in Final Cut, it looks ok, but when I render the file the video suddenly becomes half as long and twice the speed. The second half of the file is left as a black section.

The audio remains the same.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Apple Macbook - Unibody, Mac OS X (10.6.2), Also Windows 7 32bit installed via bootcamp

Posted on Mar 25, 2010 1:06 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 26, 2010 4:04 PM in response to SnakeDog

What format are your clips (compressor, frame rate, etc) and what are your sequence settings?

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SnakeDog Author

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Mar 26, 2010 11:16 PM in response to Michael Grenadier

I am using final cut Pro 7.0.1

This is from the Quicktime info pane:
Format: 16-bit Integer (Little Endian), Stereo (L R), 44.100 kHz
H.264, 960 x 540, Millions
FPS: 30.02
Data Rate: 6167.74 kbits/s

The video clip I was using was in H.264. I tried converting it to Apple Intermediate Codec, and it worked fine. Is there something wrong with H.264 codec and SmoothCam?

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Answer 3

Tom Wolsky

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Mar 27, 2010 12:18 AM in response to SnakeDog

H.264 is a delivery format and not used in production. I don't know where this material came from in this unusual frame size and frame rate but it really needs to be converted to an FCP supported format. How did you get this into your computer?

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