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Jason Bowers · November 16th, 2007, 05:49 PM

I am a noob to final cut and was wondering how to make a goos slow motion with standard footage. When just slowing it down it becomes to blurry. Any suggestions are much appreciated.

Thanks

Victor Kellar · November 16th, 2007, 06:53 PM

Do you have Frame Blending selected? Try that. And I rarely slow anything down beyond 40%

There are other solutions ... I think Ken Stone.net has a slo mo solution using Compressor and I've heard of people doing their slo mo in Motion

I find 50% with frame blending works pretty well for me

Nate Schmidt · November 19th, 2007, 11:24 PM

If you have Motion 3, just send your clip over there and use a change speed behaviour and select optical flow as the frame blending mode. It takes a while to process and builds some kind of cache file in your Motion Documents folder, which can get to be very huge. A better way is to export a self contained Quicktime Movie of just what you want to retime, add one second handles, then take that to Motion, otherwise Motion analyzes your entire media file even though you're only sending a small part of it.

John Moon · November 20th, 2007, 04:09 PM

Jason:
This may not help you now but in the future if you can shoot at a higher shutter speed say about 125 at 60i, when you go to slow it down the quality is much higher.

John

Glenn French · November 22nd, 2007, 09:46 AM

For 50% speed you can put interlaced video on two layers (at 50% speed) and add a flicker filter to the top one. One layer gets deinterlaced top field, and the other bottom field. I think you have to nudge one of the layers by half a frame. This way each field becomes a frame and te motion is very smooth.

November 16th, 2007, 05:49 PM	#1
Jason Bowers Major Player Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Thunder Bay, ON. Canada Posts: 374	best way to do slow motion I am a noob to final cut and was wondering how to make a goos slow motion with standard footage. When just slowing it down it becomes to blurry. Any suggestions are much appreciated. Thanks

November 19th, 2007, 11:24 PM	#3
Nate Schmidt Major Player Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Welland ON Posts: 515	If you have Motion 3, just send your clip over there and use a change speed behaviour and select optical flow as the frame blending mode. It takes a while to process and builds some kind of cache file in your Motion Documents folder, which can get to be very huge. A better way is to export a self contained Quicktime Movie of just what you want to retime, add one second handles, then take that to Motion, otherwise Motion analyzes your entire media file even though you're only sending a small part of it. __________________ "We've done the impossible, and that makes us mighty."

November 20th, 2007, 04:09 PM	#4
John Moon Major Player Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Indianapolis, IN Posts: 446	Jason: This may not help you now but in the future if you can shoot at a higher shutter speed say about 125 at 60i, when you go to slow it down the quality is much higher. John __________________ John J. Moon www.northernlightfilmworks.com - Event DV Top 25 Recipient

November 16th, 2007, 06:53 PM	#2
Victor Kellar Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Toronto Ontario Canada Posts: 239	Do you have Frame Blending selected? Try that. And I rarely slow anything down beyond 40% There are other solutions ... I think Ken Stone.net has a slo mo solution using Compressor and I've heard of people doing their slo mo in Motion I find 50% with frame blending works pretty well for me

November 22nd, 2007, 09:46 AM	#5
Glenn French Regular Crew Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Arlington MA, USA Posts: 35	For 50% speed you can put interlaced video on two layers (at 50% speed) and add a flicker filter to the top one. One layer gets deinterlaced top field, and the other bottom field. I think you have to nudge one of the layers by half a frame. This way each field becomes a frame and te motion is very smooth.