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Please Help! Need to import 720 60fps footage to FCE!

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SNEEZE
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so i took tons of skiing footage at woodward and copper with a Nikon P100 yesterday. it shoots 1080 but i knew i would want the slow motion to look good so i filmed in 60fps. I have final cut express and now i need to know what will look est with this footage in terms of importing it.

i have heard some things about converting the video to 24fps for smooth slow motion instead but i really am lost with all of this so any help would be great! if i didn't include anything i needed to let me know and ill answer/explain.
Jan 17 2011 10:22AM
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SNEEZE
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also i wanted to view what i had so far and imported it to iphoto. im assuming should keep the stuff on the camera incase that dumbed it down but i have no clue if it did haha.
Jan 17 2011 10:23AM
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Trojan~Man
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i know its not exactly what your looking for but theres really good info in here.

http://www.uscsnowsports.org/FCP_Tutorial.pdf

and if im not mistaken abek originally posted this?
Jan 17 2011 11:08AM
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Jeff_Lo
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Do you even have them on your computer? If you don't go to codez4mac.com and import them using Red Giant Grinder or Magic Bullet Grinder to format the shots. FCP and FCE have a hard time interpreting DSLR footage.

Download Mpeg streamclip : http://www.squared5.com/

In there open a batch list to change the shots. Convert them to Quicktime Movie files and use Apple Pro Res 422 HQ

Then download Apple Cinema Tools somehow.

In Cinema tools you'll want to do a Conform Batch and then you'll select Conform shots to 30fps or 24fps.

My recommendation is that after you convert the files to a Apple Pro Res format that you back up the folder so that you can still work with shots at normal speed and don't end up converting all of your footage into Slow Motion.

After you conform your shots they'll all be in slow mo. So DO MAKE SURE YOU BACK THEM UP. You can still use 60fps shots in your 30 fps timeline. I'd recommend using 30 and not 24. If you use 24 you'll get jittery shots in your timeline if you still want to use the shots at fullspeed or 60fps.
Jan 17 2011 11:53AM
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followCam
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If he only has FCExpress then he cant convert the shots to Apple Pro Res422 as the codec for that only comes with FCP, annoyingly.
I recommend converting them to Apple Intermediate Codec instead as even when you update a shot you (usually) don't have to render.
In the quality settings, change to 100% quality and then leave everything else as it is.

Also @Jeff_Lo, do you know if there is any way to download cinema tools? I tried looking but supposedly it only comes as part of a package of some software, maybe FCP?

@OP if you cant get Apple Cinema Tools, download JES Deinterlacer off their website for free, then in that you can convert the clips to 30fps slowmo which can then be imported and will give you smooth slowmo instead of FCE's crappy speed reduction.
Once imported into FCE, speed up the clips you dont want slowmo'd by 200% and they will play normal speed!

Hope that helps,
recently got FCE and it took me a while and some research to figure out how to best use it.
Just a shame FC doesnt support GoPro footage (mp4).
Jan 17 2011 12:11PM
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Jeff_Lo
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Ah my bad, yeah I'd just use a standard codec then. I'm not to familiar with FCE. But as far as finding cinema tools.

go to this link and DL final cut 7 and it should come with it. You'll have to join the site but this should help.

http://www.codez4mac.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=223&t=54670&hilit=Cinema+tools
Jan 17 2011 12:38PM
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SNEEZE
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thanks guys, your the best. 10/10 and hopefully i can figure this out in the morning, way too tired now. the camera is not a dslr btw, basically a compact digital camera with nice features and a big body. if anyone else has any input i would love to hear it, keep it up! also, im not set on using final cut express if i can find a way to torrent or download pro.

thats how i got the one i have now and i have taken collage editing classes using fcp 7 so i can work either fine. also if its easier i can probably wait a week and get the footage onto the school computers which have final cut with all of the extras that probably dont come in the torrent, i just still would need to figure out how to get the footage looking good. but great work, ill try what i have gotten recommended so far on what i have now for sure.
Jan 18 2011 1:34AM
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SNEEZE
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bump, anyone else?
Jan 18 2011 10:32PM
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123+ski
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i used to have this whole tutorial online for a workflow with JES, but i guess the website it was on never renewed or something cuz its been down since new years. I'm gonna try to see if its like saved in my cached files or something
Jan 19 2011 5:25PM
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