Smooth Slo-mo???

BiGRobot · Post by **BiGRobot** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:11 am

first post... yay....

i don't have a camera that you can adjust the frame rate with... so i can't really do slowmotion shots that well, are there any apps out there that can smoothly render a slo motion shot without making it look all choopy?

thanks.

shawneous · Post by **shawneous** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:29 am

Well you're right on in that to do truly great slo-mo you have to have a camera capable of high frame rate. The best you can do is to get an NLE that does frame-blending with the slow mo. I use Final Cut Pro 4.0 and it's frame blending looks really nice. Even though I'm shooting in normal 29.92NTSC it looks pretty damn good.

BiGRobot · Post by **BiGRobot** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:46 am

ya.
I'm not a big fan of Final Cut... any other standalone applications that might specialize in "frame blending"? or maybe a filter for Premiere?
thanks.

Mushiman · Post by **Mushiman** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 6:14 am

Shoot interlaced & then slow the footage down in Vegas video.

NaziSentry · Post by **NaziSentry** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:22 am

What about us who dont have vegas but Premiere or After effects!

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 4:08 pm

Nazi I hope you didn't seriously mean asking that as a quesiton if your a premiere owner, becuase slowing and speeding up footage are basic basic stuff with premiere, if you don't know that go back and learn the basics!

UFProductions · Post by **UFProductions** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:12 pm

Sigh, it pains me to admit this, but I've found that WMM 2 does a fairly decent job at slow motion. Mind you it only does it at one speed, and you have to put up with the rest of the shittyness of the program, but it's a low-cost alternitive.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 5:35 pm

Low cost meaning free

Epsilon · Post by **Epsilon** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:07 am

The way to go is get an HD 60fps camera, but I don't see much other choice you have but to interpolate the film to 15fps, or whatever speed you want.

shawneous wrote:Even though I'm shooting in normal 29.92NTSC it looks pretty damn good.

Standard NTSC is 29.97, by the way.

Kentertainment · Post by **Kentertainment** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 1:52 am

To all who have seen The Bourne Supremecy. Whenever Bourne is having the flashback when the guy says "Good job soldier you've past training" the slow motion is a little sketchy and since this is a slow motion post does anyone know how to do that.

BiGRobot · Post by **BiGRobot** » Tue Oct 19, 2004 2:53 am

I have seen Bourne Supremecy and the slo motion parts do look a little choppy, which i think is perfect for that film, very stylish.