Sunday, December 5, 2010

Solution to Slow motion: Using Cinema Tools



I've talked about the difficulty of geting that cinematic slow motion with the DSLR cameras (I own the 550/T2i) when using Final Cut Pro. It seem that the solution would have been to get Twixtor and shell out a couple hundred bucks. For a poor filmmaker or video producer such as myself, spending more money is never a good solution to a problem but I have great news. A friend of mine told me it was possible to get that slow motion to my 60fps 720p footage by bring it in to Cinema Tools (part of the Final Cut Studio program). Now I personally hardly use Cinema Tools... Actually I've never really use it. Although I've come to learn a lot of what Final Cut Pro Studio has to offer, Cinema Tools is a complete stranger to me. But if this stranger can get me the look I want without me spending a dime, then I welcome that stranger with open arms. I searched online and found a tutorial on how to go about this, thanks to help of Creative Cow. I couldn't believe how easy it was thru Cinema Tools to get slow motion, it worked like a charm. Although you can get the great results with using Cinema Tools, Twixtor has more control over the speed of the footage, making the motion of the footage as slow or fast as you like. So If youre a Final Cut Pro user and on a budget, Cinema Tools is the way to go.

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