Dude, thank you. I spent like an hour and about 10 videos just trying to find one that gave that simple formula for how much to slow down the footage in final cut based on the frame rate you shot at. I appreciate the chapters and getting to the point as far as that goes. Comment For the algorithm my guy.
This is great advice, I’ve been looking for a video that explain this very well and help with how to process it on Final Cut so that it looks awesome. Thanks!
I watched more than 20 videos about this and this is the only one that explained it very well with the cameras I have! very good tutorial well done, would you recommend shooting slow motion on sony A7RIII on 4K at 30fps and trust the optical flow to smooth my footage or 1080 60fps is better ? thank you!
Thanks, I appreciate that! You'll definitely get higher quality footage with 4K, but the slow motion may not be as smooth/natural as it would be with 60fps. So if it's only a few clips in slow motion, 4K 30p w/ optical flow should be fine, but if most of what you're doing is slow motion, you may want to lean on 1080p 60fps.
Thanks for the detailed analysis and processes to get slow motion out of footage shot in various frame rates! I am going to try the optical flow with my Fuji X-S10 and X-T3 and see how it goes. That way I can shoot in 4k at 24fps and use optical flow. Do you notice any loss of detail using 4k footage shot at 23.97fps and then using the optical flow method? Just curious what your experiences are. Thank you, again, and cheers from British Columbia, Canada!
Hello Andrew. One question i find hard to find an answer to. If my project was shot in 30fps, and i will use a mixture of 30 and 60, what speed should i select on the original project. Final file will be used online... im in pal country so should it be 24fps? Thanks in anticipation... great video too :)
For PAL you'd probably want to stick to either 25fps or 50fps, though if everything was shot in NTSC frame rates, you could try something more native to that (e.g. 24 or 30).
Hello, lately I saw a surfing clip/shot on YT of lets say 30 secs. It was one clip/shot with three parts in it in perfect flow. One part 10 sec at normal speed, one part in slow mo and one part 10 sec at normal speed. To make sure, the clip was not divided 3 separate parts. All in one flow. How do I do that? What about sound? I have a GH5 and FCPX. I am thinking of 60 fps, with the middle part in 24 fps. Pls, your advise and thanks, Frans
Try playing with the Speed Ramp effect in FCPX, or you could break the clip into different parts and adjust speed on each specifically. The clip divisions don't really matter - either way you'd be accomplishing the same thing, and it still plays back as one sequence.
I always edit videos at 60% speed because videos are bit very large. And the source video frame rates are 50 and 59.94 frame rates. So what frame rate should i give to the new project if i wanted to edit videos at 60% speed of 50fps and 59.94 fps source video. Without using optical flow
If your source video is 50fps, for a 60% speed, 30p for your timeline would look good (e.g. .6 x 50 = 30). 59.94/60fps source gets a bit weird in that timeline frame rate, so you'd want to do 50% speed for any of those clips.
Thanks for this info! Do you know if there is anyway to change all your clips before they get into the project timeline? Seems very time consuming to slow down each clip each time you put one on your project timeline. I'm so used to interpreting all my footage in Adobe Premiere, so once I add it on the sequence, it's already slowed down for me. Hope that makes sense
No problem, Jon! Not necessarily before importing - though you could in another editor - but you can select all of the clips (e.g. Shift select, Cmd + A) in your project, or a specific grouping, and then apply the same speed settings to all of them at once.
If I know I’m going to shoot 60fps and slow it down .. should I edit it in a 24fps timeline and slow it down 40% or edit the 60fps footage in a 60fps timeline and slow it down 40% ? Or is it the same thing ? Please help me lol !!
Hello, I saw on YT one surfing clip of let say 30 sec. in total. The first part, 10 sec at normal speed, the second part in slow mo, the third part again in normal speed. All in one clip/shot and perfect flow. How do I do this, how about sound? I am thinking of a 60 fps shot, slowing down to 24 fps. My camera is a gh5 and I use FCPX. Pls, your suggestions. Thanks, Frans
Why thw does the 120fps clip show up as 60 fps in fcpx? The 120fps shot in S&q looks way better than when edited in post. I doublt fcpx doesnt support 120 fps import
It supports it, it's just the maximum frame rate on a project you can have in FCPX is 60p. But once you slow it down properly, it would play back fine.
@@andrewsaraceni Thanks! I use a Sony A7SIII. For some reason when I shoot 120 fps in camera slowed down in S&Q, the quality is much better than doing it in post in FCPX. Both are 10 bit 4.2.2. in the same codec. Thats why i had this doubt. If you import a 120 fps and choose your project as 30fps and slow the project down to 25% , the result should be the same right?
@@gracesmith5021 Yes, that should work out to be the same assuming you're shooting 30p in S&Q mode as the Rec Frame Rate, 120fps as the Frame Rate, and using the same shutter speed. I'd double check your FCPX project settings (e.g. Resolution) and any in camera settings (e.g. codec, shutter speed) to make sure everything lines up.
Newbie here. Can you edit a portion of the clip to be Slow Motion. I will be shooting a barrel race involving horses running a barrel pattern. I would like to shoot 24fps and slow down a portion of the clip and let the rest of the clip be normal speed. Can I do that in camera? I shoot with a Sony a7iv.
It's not really possible to do in-camera without shooting separate clips, but you could split the clip (Cmd + B) in Final Cut and just make the one section of it slow motion.
I’ve been researching this topic on UA-cam for two days, and your tutorial is by far the best, most useful thing I have found. Thanks!
No problem, glad to know this was helpful to you!
That optical flow tip, really good thanks
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systematic, well prepared and clear - I wish all tutorial were like this !
Thanks, I appreciate that!
Dude, thank you. I spent like an hour and about 10 videos just trying to find one that gave that simple formula for how much to slow down the footage in final cut based on the frame rate you shot at. I appreciate the chapters and getting to the point as far as that goes. Comment For the algorithm my guy.
No problem, glad to hear it was helpful!
Finally found the answer, Thanks!!!
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Optical flow just blew my mind. Great tutorial, thank you!
No problem! It makes a difference for sure.
Thank you, this was soooo helpful!
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Very informative. Thank you!
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Very informative and explicit in detail. Thank you 🙏🏽
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Great video !!! thanks so much really helpful
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This was good help mate. Thanks!
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This is great advice, I’ve been looking for a video that explain this very well and help with how to process it on Final Cut so that it looks awesome. Thanks!
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Thanks for doing this video. You are very professional and clear.
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Rock solid tutorial. Thank you very much.
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Thank you so much for this wonderful, clear and precise tutorial!! Subscribed!!
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Hey Andrew thanks so much man. I found d your video because I need to slow down a bit 4K 24 fps and this was super helpful. I appreciate a lot.
No problem Victor! Glad to hear this helped you.
You can also choose “automatic speed” from the retime menu and let FCP calculate the ideal speed for your clip in your project. And voilà: no math!
That's also a good option!
I watched more than 20 videos about this and this is the only one that explained it very well with the cameras I have! very good tutorial well done,
would you recommend shooting slow motion on sony A7RIII on 4K at 30fps and trust the optical flow to smooth my footage or 1080 60fps is better ?
thank you!
Thanks, I appreciate that! You'll definitely get higher quality footage with 4K, but the slow motion may not be as smooth/natural as it would be with 60fps. So if it's only a few clips in slow motion, 4K 30p w/ optical flow should be fine, but if most of what you're doing is slow motion, you may want to lean on 1080p 60fps.
Enjoyed it very much, very helpful. Thanks!
No problem, glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the detailed analysis and processes to get slow motion out of footage shot in various frame rates! I am going to try the optical flow with my Fuji X-S10 and X-T3 and see how it goes. That way I can shoot in 4k at 24fps and use optical flow. Do you notice any loss of detail using 4k footage shot at 23.97fps and then using the optical flow method? Just curious what your experiences are. Thank you, again, and cheers from British Columbia, Canada!
No problem, Paul! No major loss of detail, though I would say using an increased shutter speed when shooting does help in processing it in post.
This is great! Thank you so much
No problem Hamza, I appreciate that!
thanks !
You're welcome!
Hello Andrew. One question i find hard to find an answer to. If my project was shot in 30fps, and i will use a mixture of 30 and 60, what speed should i select on the original project. Final file will be used online... im in pal country so should it be 24fps? Thanks in anticipation... great video too :)
For PAL you'd probably want to stick to either 25fps or 50fps, though if everything was shot in NTSC frame rates, you could try something more native to that (e.g. 24 or 30).
thank you ,very good video👍
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Thanks!
Hello, lately I saw a surfing clip/shot on YT of lets say 30 secs. It was one clip/shot with three parts in it in perfect flow. One part 10 sec at normal speed, one part in slow mo and one part 10 sec at normal speed. To make sure, the clip was not divided 3 separate parts. All in one flow. How do I do that? What about sound? I have a GH5 and FCPX. I am thinking of 60 fps, with the middle part in 24 fps.
Pls, your advise and thanks, Frans
Try playing with the Speed Ramp effect in FCPX, or you could break the clip into different parts and adjust speed on each specifically. The clip divisions don't really matter - either way you'd be accomplishing the same thing, and it still plays back as one sequence.
@@andrewsaraceni Thank you Andrew, Frans
I always edit videos at 60% speed because videos are bit very large. And the source video frame rates are 50 and 59.94 frame rates.
So what frame rate should i give to the new project if i wanted to edit videos at 60% speed of 50fps and 59.94 fps source video. Without using optical flow
If your source video is 50fps, for a 60% speed, 30p for your timeline would look good (e.g. .6 x 50 = 30). 59.94/60fps source gets a bit weird in that timeline frame rate, so you'd want to do 50% speed for any of those clips.
Thanks for this info! Do you know if there is anyway to change all your clips before they get into the project timeline? Seems very time consuming to slow down each clip each time you put one on your project timeline. I'm so used to interpreting all my footage in Adobe Premiere, so once I add it on the sequence, it's already slowed down for me. Hope that makes sense
No problem, Jon! Not necessarily before importing - though you could in another editor - but you can select all of the clips (e.g. Shift select, Cmd + A) in your project, or a specific grouping, and then apply the same speed settings to all of them at once.
If I know I’m going to shoot 60fps and slow it down .. should I edit it in a 24fps timeline and slow it down 40% or edit the 60fps footage in a 60fps timeline and slow it down 40% ? Or is it the same thing ? Please help me lol !!
You'll want to edit in a 24fps timeline, and then slow the 60fps footage down 40%.
@@andrewsaraceni thanks !!
Hello, I saw on YT one surfing clip of let say 30 sec. in total. The first part, 10 sec at normal speed, the second part in slow mo, the third part again in normal speed. All in one clip/shot and perfect flow. How do I do this, how about sound? I am thinking of a 60 fps shot, slowing down to 24 fps. My camera is a gh5 and I use FCPX.
Pls, your suggestions. Thanks, Frans
For 1080p Will be the same rules? Thanks
Yes, the same rules apply regardless of resolution.
Why thw does the 120fps clip show up as 60 fps in fcpx? The 120fps shot in S&q looks way better than when edited in post. I doublt fcpx doesnt support 120 fps import
It supports it, it's just the maximum frame rate on a project you can have in FCPX is 60p. But once you slow it down properly, it would play back fine.
@@andrewsaraceni Thanks! I use a Sony A7SIII. For some reason when I shoot 120 fps in camera slowed down in S&Q, the quality is much better than doing it in post in FCPX. Both are 10 bit 4.2.2. in the same codec. Thats why i had this doubt. If you import a 120 fps and choose your project as 30fps and slow the project down to 25% , the result should be the same right?
@@gracesmith5021 Yes, that should work out to be the same assuming you're shooting 30p in S&Q mode as the Rec Frame Rate, 120fps as the Frame Rate, and using the same shutter speed. I'd double check your FCPX project settings (e.g. Resolution) and any in camera settings (e.g. codec, shutter speed) to make sure everything lines up.
Newbie here. Can you edit a portion of the clip to be Slow Motion. I will be shooting a barrel race involving horses running a barrel pattern. I would like to shoot 24fps and slow down a portion of the clip and let the rest of the clip be normal speed. Can I do that in camera? I shoot with a Sony a7iv.
It's not really possible to do in-camera without shooting separate clips, but you could split the clip (Cmd + B) in Final Cut and just make the one section of it slow motion.
@@andrewsaraceni Thank you so much, very helpful 👍🏻
Great video how the heck can I do this on davinici anyone😩😩😩
Thanks! I'm sure there's some clip speed tutorials out there similarly for DaVinci.