slow motion

Jibberish · Post by **Jibberish** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:34 pm

Ok, lets say i have a regular DV camera that obviously won't do slow motion very well. Is it possible for me to take a program like motion perfect, double the framerate, put the new clip in premiere, and cut the speed by half and still have good quality?

Also, have any of you ever heard of or tried Realviz ReTimer Pro? It's like a 4000 dollar program, and I assume that for that price it would work flawlessly. I've tried doing frame interpolation with motion perfect but came up with powerfully shitty results.

Anyways, hit me back
peace

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Tue Jul 29, 2003 9:43 pm

YOu can probably just do that in Premeare.

Jibberish · Post by **Jibberish** » Wed Jul 30, 2003 2:22 am

Actually, in premiere, if you slow footage down, it gets choppy. I also don't think premiere has frame interpolation. But its all good. What I did works.

Ok, I went to the Dynapel homepage, and got the motion perfect demo version. With that, I took a clip, doubled the framerate (which actually turned out looking like it was 60fps) then went into premiere and 50 percented its a**. The result -- a 30fps clip at half the speed.

The only problem is that with the demo version of motion perfect, you can only interpolate a clip to a maximum of 15 seconds, and it has a logo in the top left corner. But this can be avoided by purchasing the program, which is only $50.

So kudos to the new guy! lol, j/k

peace

Biggles · Post by **Biggles** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 6:01 pm

If you've got After Effects, I'd say give Realviz retimer a shot. There's a downloadable demo plug-in on their site for after effects. The program is pretty amazing, including options like gradually slowing down your video, even to a complete stop, and then speeding up again or whatever you like! Plus the slomo effect is as smooth as it can be.

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 6:23 pm

I have Retimer Pro... It's quite good, but dependant on a clean background plate for it not to bug. De-interlace slowmotion is an option for ya, if you require even heavier slow-mo simply morph between two of the frames and set the duration of the morph to whatever you want to achieve unlimited slow-motion..

Jibberish · Post by **Jibberish** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 6:55 pm

Holy s***, you've got ReTimer Pro? That s*** costs $3500 american dude. Did you pay for it? Or did you rip it off from somewhere? I'm currently in the process of getting the trial version (which is just a download of the full version with a trial license). Hey, I know we discourage not giving like serial numbers and stuff like that, but would you know where I could get one, perhaps?

anyways,
peace

film fanatic · Post by **film fanatic** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 9:01 pm

just double the framerate...done.

Jibberish · Post by **Jibberish** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 1:16 am

well, thats what i did with the whole motion perfect business, but how are you proposing you double the framerate?

hanasand · Post by **hanasand** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 1:45 pm

Shoot in interlaced mode and then slow down by 50% and de-interlace the footage. Loose half the vertical quality but 25/30fps slow motion..

Ornsack · Post by **Ornsack** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:00 pm

Yeah deinterlace your interlaced footage and slow it down by exactly half and the slow motion will be glorious

Technically you do loose half the verticle resolution but people who notice these things have far too good eyesight for my liking.

SgtPadrino · Post by **SgtPadrino** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 3:00 am

I really need to get more powerful software - the slowmotion on the program I use is controlled simply a slider, but the end effect is never as slow as you want it to be. And if you slow it down all the way, export it and slow it down again, it just get's damned choppy.

[Edited on 5-8-2003 by SgtPadrino]

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 3:13 am

Since CamClub hasn't mention an old school way, I guess I will, just have your actor move slow, then slow it down in post, you will probably get an even slower effect. I haven't tryed this but probably will have to, soon.