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SeSawaya · Dec 7, 2003, 10:53 PM

Doing a large project for my high school I teach at. Was wondering if I can us a speed up film effect in either iMovie or FCE. I have both although FCE seems way over my head at this junctur in time. I may edit the whole thing in iMovie then dump it into FCE, we'll see. I have all the Slick effect for iMovie but nothing like this seems to exist. Is it in FCE? thanks for any insight in my new endevor

Axo1ot1 · Dec 8, 2003, 01:10 AM

Originally posted by SeSawaya:
Doing a large project for my high school I teach at. Was wondering if I can us a speed up film effect in either iMovie or FCE. I have both although FCE seems way over my head at this junctur in time. I may edit the whole thing in iMovie then dump it into FCE, we'll see. I have all the Slick effect for iMovie but nothing like this seems to exist. Is it in FCE? thanks for any insight in my new endevor

Final Cut has a great interface. It may seem intimidating at first, but if you do the tutorial you should pick it up really quickly. To speed up a clip control or right click it in the timeline, select 'speed,,,' and adjust as needed. If you do a poject in FCE you will get good at it in no time.

k_munic · Dec 8, 2003, 02:08 AM

Originally posted by SeSawaya:
Doing a large project for my high school I teach at. Was wondering if I can us a speed up film effect in either iMovie or FCE. I have both although FCE seems way over my head at this junctur in time. I may edit the whole thing in iMovie then dump it into FCE, we'll see. I have all the Slick effect for iMovie but nothing like this seems to exist. Is it in FCE? thanks for any insight in my new endevor

in iMovie:
select clip in the timeline. below the timeline you find a slider with a turtle and a rabbit - guess , what effect these two have

in FCE:
/see posting above/ and: if you type in numerical datas: >100% means speeding up, <100% means slower. for a benny hill (omg!!) effect, 130% is enough�

happy movie making

btw: reading the fce manual is fun! 1400 pgs!! i did a print out

Nap · Dec 8, 2003, 05:51 AM

Here's a method that will work in Quicktime Pro. Copy the video track to the clip board, then use Add Scaled from the Edit menu to add it to a sound track (any sound file, since you will delete it anyway) that is a different duration. The video will be speeded up or slowed down to correspond to the duration of the sound track. You can use an mp3, for example. If you don't have a sound track of the right duration, just copy and paste or delete until it is the right duration. When you later delete the sound track the video will retain what ever time duration you changed it to with the temporary sound track.
This trick also works nicely to time a slide show to the duration of a particular music file. When you Add Scaled a video to an mp3, for example, Quicktime Player will space the appearance of the individual images to exactly fit the duration of the mp3.

SeSawaya · Dec 8, 2003, 07:26 AM

thanks guys,

K_munic, --works great! thanks, why didnt i think of that!?.

Axo1ot1- thanks for the confidence. I will learn that darn program yet. I wish I had the time to experiment more before diving into this. Like I said, once I get my work chopped up at least, i will give it a shot in FCE. Ediiting 3.5 hours down to 90 mins is much easier in iMovie right now.

thanks again guys

Kent

hadocon · Dec 10, 2003, 08:24 PM

I dont want to sound callous, but if you work @ a school I am sure they have a manual. Try reading it.

SeSawaya · Dec 10, 2003, 09:41 PM

its not the schools, its mine. The manual is a good bit of reading on not much free time.

Being a teacher I'm used to giving the obvious answer to most things too.

Its coming along

k_munic · Dec 11, 2003, 02:14 AM

@hadocon:
writing and reading in these forums is a very good way to improve my english - never heard of "callous"� thanx for this "phrase of today"

@SeSawaya:
prob with iMovie is - it has no manual, just this integrated help, which is from my point of view not so handsome. buy a good book, for a native english speaker there are dozends, e.g. "the missing manual" for a start�

for FCE the trouble is much higher - on the cd you find a 1400pgs long .pdf file! i have read the "dummies" book - not bad for a start�

btw: you have to be a good teacher - you have humor!!