Welcome to a tutorial today looking at Twixta, the plugin Twixta.
This is the plugin 4.5, Twixta 4.5 for Final Cut Pro.
I would probably recommend using Twixta in After Effects, it's a little bit easier to
do keyframing than working with it within Final Cut, but most of my students have been
using Twixta within Final Cut, so I'm just going to hopefully do a quick ish tutorial
on how to get it to work in Twixta, sorry Final Cut.
So what we need to do is first we've got our footage here, so this is the section we're
going to create our slow motion on, this piece here, this was shot by some of my students
and we're going to use that small chair area as our slow motion Twixta effect.
This was shot on a Canon 7D and it was shot at 60 frames a second, so what we need to
do is we need to go and first we want to change the original footage from 60 frames to 24
frames, this will be a kind of first initial slow motion, so it will slow down the content
to 20 from 60 frames to 24 frames, so let's get started on that.
Let's move into Cinema Tools, this is where we can do it, so continue and we don't need
a database so we can cancel, so we can go file, open clip, find our three clips, obviously
we'll just do one by one here because it's a bit easier, open, we're going to conform
this from 59.94 to 24, I mean I'm using 24 but you can use 30, 29.97, 25 etc, I'm just
using 24 because I like 24 it's easy and hit conform, now before you hit conform I would
recommend that you back up your original source file to another folder, I've already done
this, mine is over here, we can see the three files there, so hit conform and there we go
that's now changed from 59.94 into 24, I'm not sure if I'm going to use this clip but
let's conform it anyway, and the next one, the third and final one is the back feed shot
and let's conform and conform and there we go, there's our three clips now conformed
from 60 frames or 59.94 into 24, so let's just quickly have a look, so this was six
seconds, we can see here the duration is six seconds and the new duration of the clip here
is 15 seconds, alright excellent, so that has conformed it to slightly more than double
in duration, so let's just import these, there's our clips and we've inserted these clips into
here already, so we won't bother there's, we can do it if they want, there's our in
point out point and our second our in point out point and our third in point out point
for our ending shot which is fine, so what we want to do now is we want to find the
actual spot that we're going to work with for our slow motion, so I'm going to go from
about here, so in this case I'm going to make a cut point in my timeline, just play it forward
and let's go to about here using there and cut point there, so this is my kind of extreme
slow motion point that I'm going to work with, so what I need to do in final cuts, not like
not complicated or anything, but it's a little bit different to how you can do it in After Effects,
so I'm going to now take a copy of this, so command C, I'm going to go to my browser
and hit command N and type in slow motion twix in here, I'm going to press enter to
bring me to my new sequence, my slow motion sequence, now what is really important is
because we're going to make a kind of nest sequence is we need to match these two sequences,
so there's our original sequence here, this is command zero, we'll show you 24 frames,
so let's go to our slow motion sequence and the easiest way to do it is just to drop in
the same content into the sequence, it should now, then you can delete it, command zero
and it's 24, perfect, so we're now matching, so what we're going to do is we're going to
paste the content that we just copied from our original sequence into our timeline, our
nest sequence, so this is probably enough, probably about 20 seconds is okay but you
know it doesn't have to do any more, let's then move to our original sequence, there's
our original sequence, so we can delete this section because we want to get rid of this,
there it goes and let's take our nested sequence, slow motion twix, this is our sequence and
let's insert that into our gap, now we can delete the audio because we don't need it,
I know it's going to say render the audio, so let's just render that very quickly because
it's just going to sit there as red and let's pull it down, maybe we're going to look at
about 5 seconds of slow motion, something like that, so we're going to move that and
obviously we would need to then amend our audio, whatever, we're not too fast, actually
I'm going to delete the audio, okay, so this is our slow motion section, our nested slow
motion section, so now we can go ahead and select this, go up to our effects and our
video filters, our revision plugin and twix to 4.5, this is what we're using in Final
Cart, hit the button and it comes up as rendered, that's why we need to render that later but
we haven't done anything, now if I double click this nest, this sequence, it's just going
to take me back to my sequence, so the easiest way and the way we're going to work with the
filter is just hit the return key on the keyboard and it jumps into our viewer, so now we can
see our twix to effect here, so we've got our filter, there's our filter, so our output,
we're not going to touch our output, we're not going to touch any of these others here,
motion vectors is best, we don't really worry about this, we could put that on if we want
but I don't bother, motion sensitivity is fine, our speed is fine, so that's what we're
going to work with, I'll come back to that, our frame interpretation, now because we've
got some motion going on in this, as we can see the feet move and the chair moves and
stuff, we want a motion weighted blend on this, so we're going to blend that and we're
going to click smart blend, so it works with these sections of the feet and the chair and
it blends them nicely together, well we hope it blends them nicely together, now our speed,
depending on what speed we want it to look at, I'm going to select 25 and I'm going to
work from 25% and hit tab, now I need to render this, so I will render this and then we will
come back once we are rendered, okay so we have rendered out, I've moved a few things
around after I finished the render and I actually extended this track because it was about here
I think originally I just extended it out a little bit to have a bit more of an effect,
so the next thing is I'll drop this on the end, there's our ending and let's just take
a quick look at that, on that point to see our slow motion effect looks pretty good,
very nice, there we go, so that's 25% this is working at, so obviously it was originally
the 100% that we saw which would have been 24 frames, this is now gone on 25% of 24 frames
and there's our ending, so I think this is quite a nice effect we're getting here, there's
no motion, there's no blurring, it looks pretty good, I'm very happy with the effect, it looks
quite nice, very subtle, there's no blurring or any funny areas around the feet or the
movement of the chair which sometimes you can get with plugins if there's too much
motion going on, but I think it looks really nice and looks good, so there we go, so we
basically looked at using Twixta in Final Cut, I probably would recommend trying to
use it in After Effects, keyframing is a little bit easier than having to nest and all these
other elements that you have to do in Final Cut to get what you want, but anyway if you
have got it in Final Cut and you want to use it in Final Cut this is how you can put it
together and it works quite nicely, and again this was shot on the Canon 70, 60 frames,
then we conformed it in Cinema Tools down to 24, pulled it in, made our little edit
and then added our Twixta plugin, and there you go, so if you've got any questions please
feel free to write, if you want any other sort of tutorials done then please also feel
free to write, I will come back at some other time with probably a coloring tutorial will
be next, maybe DaVinci or something like that, but anyway I hope you enjoyed this one and
I'll see you next time.
