Effect I keep seeing – WHAT IS IT?

[Mike Velte]

Posterize Time is the effect you might be looking for…set the frame rate to 2,3 or 4. Keyframable as well.

[Mike Cohen]

is this what we used to call “strobing” back in the DVE days?

What’s old is new again.

[Steven L. gotz]

I think I know what he means, and it really is just jump cuts. The easiest way to make them uniform is to set am In/Out and list a section, then move the in/out by dragging it, then lift again. The end point is usually more important than the in point.

I don’t know of an automated way to do this and have it look good. Just experiment a bit. You’ll get it.

[Craig Howard]

I suspect you are seeing “speed ramps”.

Not achievable in PremPro without a plugin such as Twixtor or you can do it in AE with time/speed remapping.

BTW: Very surprised PREMPRO 2 did not include this.

[Aanarav Sareen]

Posterize time will do this, as mentioned by Mike earlier.

[Chad Treanor]

Thats the one ive been seeing!

thanks for the quick response too. I dont know if i’ll use this effect but at least i can grab it if a client wants something quick.

thanks again

Chad

[Craig Howard]

So what exactly is the effect now you have identified it?

[Timo-uk]

Is it the effect used in fight scenes, such as Gladiator and particularly in WW2 war films (Saving Private Ryan) etc., where the images are sharpened and slightly stuttery (to simulate the realness and immersive-ness of it I guess)? Along with using colour filters (to make it look earthy and grey)?

[Chad Treanor]

The effect was posterize time-

and the whole WW2 / private ryan comment, I dont think that that was a motion effect. Ive been researching that look/style for quite a while and I’ve learned that its the difference in the shutter angle in the film camera… This means that the shutter angle controls the level of motion blur between frames of film.

In saving private ryan the use of a low shutter angle made the film look like there was no blur between frames. The resulting image is very crisp, accurate, and no blur at all. (another example would be the scene in Garden State when Mark’s character pulls the locket out of the grave he was digging while the rich guy is saying ‘aldous huxtable’ – that was shot with a low shutter angle).

With movies like amelie or the big lebowski they probably used the standard shutter angle to create a smoother image so it wouldnt detract from what you are actually watching.

thats my $.02

-CH4D

[Dvguy80]

A really nice way to do speed ramps in Premiere Pro 2.0, assuming you have the Production Studio:

– select the clip on the timeline that you want to do a speed ramp/keyframed speed change
– copy
– alt+tab to AE
– paste
– apply Timewarp effect (new in AE 7.0)
– experiment setting speed keyframes, preview, iterate until happy then RAM preview
– drag comp to taskbar over Premiere Pro until it comes forward
– drop the comp into the Project window
– use that comp (Dynamic Linked into PPro) like any other clip, e.g., replace the original one
– voila!