Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #20
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But what happens if you don’t want to use Interval Recording? There may be times when something is happening quickly enough and there isn’t an interval amount that will work for you. For example, let’s say some storm clouds are rolling in and you want to capture the building thunderhead. Using Interval recording may cause you to miss the very cool dynamics that is going on inside the cloud.
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| Click to view raw cloud footage |
| Fit to Fill allows you to create your own unique time-lapse effects. |
These are just two solutions to working with time-lapse footage in Final Cut Pro. If you would like to read how to create time-lapse footage where you would have more control, read my first time-lapse article here.
Remember, using the Interval Recording on your camera may not seem like the ideal solution, but if you are capturing a process that lasts and extremely long time (like the passage of an entire day), using Interval Recording will save you a great deal of tape that will need to be digitized in the end (12 hours of footage V. 30 minutes of footage).
As an endnote, you don’t necessarily have to use Final Cut Pro in order to fix your Interval Recording mess; you can use any NLE program that allows you to do Fit to Fill.
Here is a current list of the Final Cut Pro Quick Tips to date:
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #1: Texture Treatments to Enhance Video Productions
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #2: Using Markers to Quickly Edit a Music Video
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #3: Import Your Music the Right Way
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #4: Nesting Helps Manage Longer Projects
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #5: Keying Explained
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #6: Configuring Your Scratch Disk
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #7: My Favorite Effects
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #8: De-Interlacing
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #9: Color Correction workflow tips
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #10: Locating files in the Timeline
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #11: Backing up at project end
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #12: Exporting to After Effects
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #13: When is title safe, not title safe?
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #14: Storyboard your edits and then edit in an instant
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #15: Join Through Edits
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #16: Exporting to Pinnacle Thunder XL
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #17: Marking Clips
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #18: Color Correction Freebie
Final Cut Pro Quick Tip #19: Importing Image Sequence
When not working deep in the labs of the DMN Central Division testing the latest and greatest software/hardware products Stephen Schleicher can be found at the local university teaching a few courses on video and web production. He can be reached at schleicher@mindspring.com. You can also visit him on the web at www.mindspring.com/~schleicher
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