Smooth slow motion from 50i clips?

[Janke]

I've searched the forum, but found mostly 24p suggestions, so can someone either point me to a thread, or suggest a workflow which can change a 50i clip so that each field becomes one frame, i.e. a 50% slow-motion effect. As I see it, you can't do it directly in FCE.

I have tried JES, but it can't even open any of my clips, I get "Error # -2003"

[iThinkergoiMac]

Are you using the latest version of JES? Have you tried repairing permissions, emptying cache files, deleting prefs, etc?

[dearcatastrophe]

nattress makes a solution called G Fields and Frames that does exactly what you need, i believe.

[Janke]

Are you using the latest version of JES? Have you tried repairing permissions, emptying cache files, deleting prefs, etc?

Yes, just downloaded it...

I think I have figured it out, but I'm not 100% sure:

JES doesn't seem to accept a AIC-coded file dragged straight out of a media package - I need to save it as a .mov file on the desktop (or somewhere else) first. Will have to experiment more, to be sure that's the problem, but I did get it to work and the scene done...

Thanks for the hints!

[main_event]

So how did you manage to get smoooooth 50i footage?

[Janke]

So how did you manage to get smoooooth 50i footage?

By using JES. Workflow:

In Project window, choose deinterlace from drop-down menu.
Choose "Both fields"
Check "Double movie duration"
Check "Move top field down one pixel"


This made a 25p slow-mo sequence of the original 50i, each field became one frame.

Importing that into FCE, I had what I wanted.