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Question for those Editing Experts
Hey everyone
I wanted to replicate this shot:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgo3Hb5vWLE
If you go to 0:58 seconds you will see that the lady is moving slower than the world around her.
I use Sony Vegas Pro 10 and was wondering how I would be able to imitate such a shot. Please consider that I am quite new to editing so instructions may have to be simplistic or in easy-to-understand language. 🙂 Im guessing that you may need to chroma key an overlay of slower footage on top of faster footage? But I would then question houw you would get the exact same angle to blend it in.Alsoo (within that same video)
at 0:30 you will see that the image is quite distorted into a rounded (not sure how to describe it) kinda picture. I wouldn’t have a clue how to do this in Vegas and was wondering if someone may be able to instruct me 🙂Thanks heaps 😀
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To get the “Fisheye” lens effect I believe it’s a combination of “Deform” and possibly “Cookie Cutter” but Playing around with Deform and using “Circle” you can adjust the values for left,right, etc.
The shot was probably used with a ultra-wide angle lens or a “Fisheye” and could possibly be easily duplicated with a DSLR with movie mode.
Not much help I know but figure it’s a start.
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There’s a couple of ways to speed up the main talent. The easiest would be to have your talent act in slow-motion, then speed her up to normal in post.
Steve Mann
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Thanks! 🙂
Would you be able to share some of the other alternative means of doing so? My ‘actress’ I guess you could say isn’t really experienced enough to act slowly and make it seem natural in post-production.But that’s a very good tip which I’ll keep in mind!
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Any help’s good help doug!
Thanks 🙂
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Looking at that footage, all you would need to do is lock the camera down and shoot people passing by so you could speed it up later, then shoot the main talent and superimpose one over the other. The fast moving people at no time crossed the path of the talent (they were on either side) so it should be easy to do. It’s just a matter of not moving the camera while shoot both scenes.
~jr
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“Would you be able to share some of the other alternative means of doing so?”
You could put the actress on a greenscreen and key her into the background.
The way that big budget filmmakers do it is to shoot the scene twice. Once with the normal motion talent and again for the fast-motion background and composite them together. It’s not unlike greenscreen, but you use the cookie cutter to open the hole in the middle of the fast-moving scene to show the normal talent through from the track below. Only three precautions here – you have to shoot the scenes as close to each other so that the lighting doesn’t change. Next you have to choreograph the fast actors to “make a hole” for the slow person so that they don’t appear to be walking through her. Last – the camera can’t move.
If the camera does need to move, then your situation just got a lot more complex. In addition to the first two precautions above, you need to introduce motion-tracking. You can do it in Vegas with Boris Complete (BCC7) [Hint – sign up for one of their webinars, they often offer webinar attendees a discount for participating], or with AfterEffects. I believe that After Effects has a template for just this effect, but AE has an absurdly steep learning curve that is matched by its price.
Good Luck…
Steve Mann
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Thank you both for your input!
Its been very helpful 🙂
Id just like to ask though..
If I were to move the camera (like they did in this trailer) how would it be possible to superimpose the two footage? Is it possible, and if so how, to move the camera in the exact same manner twice?Thank you!
“The Screen is a Magic Medium” – Kubrick
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Ahk cool
So I would get the subject to walk from one end of the scene to the other?“The Screen is a Magic Medium” – Kubrick
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