slow motion

[whervruwillgo]

Hey does anybody know how I can get a slow motion scene without it looking too choppy. I'm guessing I should film at a higher framerate or something then slow it down so it doesn't look choppy, but we're only freshmen in highschool with a cheap camcorder. I'd really appreciate any ideas that would help us on this problem. Thanks.

[HungKuen]

Well, shoot it with a higher shutter-speed, which will take away the motion-blur. Then, when you upload it to you computer, do NOT de-interlace your footage (the shots you want in slowmo that is, deinterlace the rest), and simply change the speed (timestretch in AE is probably the best way to do it). But never make it less than 50% of the original speed, beacuse then it is impossible to get rid of the choppy-ness.

Oh, and I should say, I haven't personally tested this method, I only know of other people who uses it. I might have gotten one or two details wrong, but I don't think so.

Hope it helps

[seafood1397]

you are very limited when shooting on video unless you have the moolah for a high def. camera. however you can get round it a little depending which edit system are you going to use. Some systems have frame blending fx which reduce 'robotron' movements also you can try a little motion blur over a slow down which will make it feel smoother {final cut pro}. The video interlace suggestion is a slight solution ie it maintain two fields per frame instead of just the one but this can produce messy results. I recommend using Fcp for the best result.

[HungKuen]

Um, wouldn't putting motion blur over it be kind of a bad idea, since in a real film-slow motion (which I believe is what people is trying to recreate) has no, or very little motion blur in it?!

[seafood1397]

which home camcorders have changeable shutter speeds?

[HungKuen]

Most MiniDV's have them I think.