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Blurry Slow-Mo
Hi,
I posted the paragraph below in the Premiere Pro forum. It was suggested that I post here as well, since AE may be better at producing slow-motion sequences. It was also suggested that Twixtor is an excellent plug-in for this purpose. Does anyone have advice? I use PPro for all of my editing and have not ventured into AE yet. I’m not familiar with AE, so I’d also appreciate advice on good AE tutorials.
Thanks.
>One of the things I’ve struggled with this year is how to make my slow-motion footage less blurry. Unaware of any other methods, I simply slow the speed of the clip to whatever percentage I need. The problem is that it appears considerably more blurry than the rest of my footage. I understand that PPro interpolates between frames to keep it smooth, but even adding a sharpen filter does nothing to make it look clearer. I also tried turning on ‘Always Deinterlace’ in the field options. PPro ‘Help’ recommended this for slow-mo clips. It didn’t appear to help and actually made the image flicker a little. Is PPro the place to do slow-mo or should it be done in AE? Sadly, I haven’t learned AE yet so I’m hoping that there’s a better way in PPro.<
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This can be done several ways in AE. Twixtor is one way but it is not the only way. If you use the Layer>Time stretch feature, you can do something similar to what you are doing in premiere. However, a much more powerful tool is the time remapping feature that is right above it in your tools. With this, you can import a clip, then have it play at various speeds within that same clip.
I used this on a shot of a motorola phone that was hanging on a fishing line spinning slowly. I used it to have the phone spin fast at the beginning, then slow down to a stop, and then start turning the other way. It was very effective and I saw no loss in quality.
If you continue to have blurriness, try importing the footage as a sequence instead of a quicktime. It is easier to remap this way I think.
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Twixtor is an excellent plug-in for this purpose. – True.
AE will be much better than Premeire at this. I’ve had surprisingly good results with even poorly shot footage. You just need the right recipe.
Time Remapping in AE is great, not just for slow motion, but having fluidity of time. (That’s not proper grammer…but I know what I mean.)There are many good tutorials on the Cow for After Effects, but if you’re looking for an introduction you would be hard pressed to find anything better than Total Training’s AE DVDs, they’re absolutely fantastic and more than worth the cost.
The “Great” stands for “Not-So-Great”
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Darn you, you faster typer you! 49 seconds! AND you used a real-world example.
The “Great” stands for “Not-So-Great”
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Excellent info. Thank you.
AE doesn’t seem as intuitive to me as does Premiere Pro. I am a self-taught PP user who has had difficulty learning and navigating AE. I’ve been meaning to invest in the TT AE and other tutorials. Maybe it’s time, now that the busy season is coming to a close.
Thanks again…
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After Effects is so powerful that once you learn it, will hate to even look at premiere. Also, learning after effects will help you if you ever need to learn flash and most other programs used for multimedia. Premirer Pro is O.K. for basic editing but for special effects and even many “basic” video features, AE is your best bet.
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You’ve also got to keep in mind, PP is designed to do Editing in, AE is an Compositing Application, thus there purpose compliment each other. The one is good with one thing and bad with the other, and vice versa.
I’m getting me the TT training kit for the Video Collection for XMAS, ssshhh, it’s a suprise, hie hie.
– Derrick
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For my two cents:
I always jump into AE for doing any slo-mo. Usuallt Time-Stretch. So much better in result. Even at weird rates it looks pretty good. Most NLEs struggle with odd rates (27%, 83%) instead of nice even ones (25%, 75%). You will not only get softness creep in, but also jerky playback.
I used AE for a 120sec retail TVC once that was running a fraction over, but we couldn’t trim anywhere. I ran it through AE at some weird speed (something like 101.2%). Indetectable. In FCP it was a nightmare!
e.
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Sorry, I just re-read my post, it should read: Time Remap, not Stretch.
e.
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