How to edit 120fps In Final Cut
How-To Create Slow Motion Video Using 1080/120p In Final Cut Pro
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how's it going it's Jay from Sony Alpha
lab and in this really quick video I'm
gonna show you how to take your 120 P
video footage and then use that footage
to create slow-motion video in Final Cut
Pro I've gotten this question many times
on how I slow the footage down speed it
back up and so forth and I'm just going
to show you how that works when you
record in 120 P on your Sony camera it
doesn't playback in slow-motion
automatically and you know a lot of
people you know understandably think
that that might be how it works but it
doesn't work that way you actually
record your video footage in 120 P and
then you can slow that footage down in
post-processing using a program like
Final Cut Pro so let me just show you
how to do that really quick and this is
going to be a quick video guys so notice
here I'm in Final Cut Pro and here are
my video clips here on the left hand
side and you see this little square with
the circle it looks like a Sun that'll
tell you that the clip is 120 P by
default in Final Cut Pro and then also
if you scroll up here if you just look
up here on the top of the viewer you can
see here it tells you it's 1920 by 1080
and it's at 120 frames per second or 119
point eight eight so basically what you
want to do is you want to create a new
project and then you're going to drag
your clip into your project and then you
can slow it down so what I'm going to do
is I'm just going to go to file new
project and I'm just going to leave the
project at 1080 and I will title it 120
P slow motion and notice here that the
frame rate is at twenty three point nine
eight so that's what the video is
actually going to playback at it's gonna
playback at basically 24 frames per
second so when you have 120 frames per
second you know clip and then you
convert it basically to 24 frames per
second that's how you're going to create
the slow motion so let me show you what
I mean
now this already exists alright hang on
let me just name that to click okay
alright so here's my clip that I'm gonna
drag in once you drag the clip down
and you can play it back and notice how
it's playing back at full speed and
that's it it's just a very basic clip
here so what you want to do to slow that
footage down how I like to do it and you
guys there's many ways to do this type
of stuff so please don't think this is
the only way to do it I'm just going to
show you how I like to do it in my
workflow basically you click on the
retiming tool here and then you just go
to automatic speed and that'll take the
clip and it'll stretch out those 120
frames to the 24 frames per second
timeline and now the entire clip is in
slow motion so it's that simple that's
how you get your slow-motion footage
alright so now to get that speeding up
and slowing down effect I'm going to
show you how you do that so just select
your range tool this one the range
selection make sure you have that
selected and then you can basically
scroll through the video till you get to
the spot where you want the slow motion
to be so what I want is I want this part
right here where you see the bike goes
off the ground I want that to be in slow
motion so what I'm going to do is I'm
going to select right here and then I'm
going to drag all the way to the left
like so then I'm going to go back so I
have that section selected there I'm
gonna go back to my retiming tool and
I'm gonna go to normal so the shortcut
for that is shift N on the Macintosh but
I'm just gonna use the menus here for
the for this quick tutorial you could
see it just sped that clip back up so
now it's back to original normal speed
you can see now I'm riding in normal and
then right there it goes into slo-mo so
now I'm going to speed it back up so I'm
going to select this section here from
here all the way to the end of the clip
I'm gonna go to my retiming and I'm
gonna click normal so now when we play
it back we have normal speed slow motion
there for a second and then it goes
right back to normal speed so that's how
you do it that's how you slow down and
speed up clips using the 120p footage so
I'm just keeping this very basic guys
could you could make it more complicated
if you want but it's fairly simple
overall I would say so I can bring in
another clip here so I have my
selection tool and this clip is still
it's playing at full speed right now so
another way to do it would be to just
select the area that you want slow
motion which would be this right here
just drag it a little bit more like that
so this section right here I'm going to
create slow motion I'm just doing
showing you another way to do it so now
I can just go too slow and I can go to
25% and that will slow that section of
the clip down so now watch this so it's
fast and then here comes too slow and
then it's going to speed right back up
to full speed so there's two different
ways you can do this you can basically
convert the clip to make the entire clip
slow motion and then speed up the
sections that you want in full speed
like I did on the first section or you
can leave the clip at full speed and
then select the areas that you want to
make slower so there like I said there's
multiple ways to do this and it's very
simple to do and I could actually go
over here and just add another section
slow this down put it at 25 and now
you'll see full speed and then it's
going to go to slow motion here in a
second now I'm in slow motion again and
it's going to speed back up and there
you have it so that is pretty much it
like I said this is gonna be a very
quick video I just had a bunch of people
asking me how I do this and this is how
I do it it's that simple and then if you
watch you know the final product you can
see what it ends up looking like
I'm slowing it down and then this is
what it looked like for the final review
so I'm rolling along here and then
here's the clip and look I slowed it
down for a second speed it back up same
thing here and I slowed it down when I
went in the mud sped it back up and
that's basically how you do it that's
just speed ramping and final cut and you
just set your camera up to record at 120
P and you'll be good to go alright guys
that is pretty much it for this very
quick tutorial and I will catch up with
you next time please feel free to ask
questions if you have them I'd be happy
to help you out the best I can all right
take care I'll catch up with you next
time
