half speed in AE?

[Kevin Camp]

well, i finally checked out maltaannon’s method, i think that modifying the frame rate of interlaced video in the interpret footage settings to half the desired frame rate (old-skool method) is easier.

but i started playing around with dave’s really old-skool method using time stretch, and i think it may be the easiest way of all…. and it looked as good as my old method. here’s how:

-take interlaced 29.97 (or 25 pal) footage into ae (make sure the fields are separated correctly in interpret footage or glance at the footage info at the top of the project window).

-make a standard frame rate comp.

-drop the footage in.

-apply time stretch (layer>time>time stretch..) and set it to 200%. (you could stretch 29.97 interlaced footage down 250% if you used a 23.976fps comp).

it was that easy and the results were as good as my tried and true interpret-footage-as-half-frame-rate method.

additional steps that may help some footage:

-enable the smooth edges feature in the interpret footage settings.

-enable frame blending (frame mix rather than pixel motion).

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW

[Kevin Camp]

i forgot the original post as slowing 60p to 30p, not interlaced… so for the record, this method works for 60p also…

enjoy

Kevin Camp
Designer – KCPQ, KMYQ & KRCW