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How to fix footage shot w/ a slow shutter speed
Hello to all,
I am looking for some help in how to correct footage from a videographer that I hired to shoot my wedding. I hired him to shoot everything and then give me the tapes and I would edit the video as a personal project for myself.
This is a very personal situation for me and I’d love any help I can get. And also, in order to get the most traffic, I’ve posted this on a couple forums, so please forgive me if you have read this twice. Thank you. 🙂
Ok, I ended up getting married in November, and I received the tapes from the videographer yesterday. All of the footage was shot:
DV NTSC 60i
Squeezed
On a DVX100BNow, my ceremony was shot in daylight and then it was dark for the majority of the reception. Everything was all outside. So all of the footage in the daylight looked great, shot DV 60i with normal shutter (1/60 or off).
Then when the reception became dark, the videographer switched to a “slow shutter speed”. This was maybe a 1/15 or 1/30. I’m not fully sure, and I’m not fully sure if “slow shutter speed” is correct. I know that this was chosen to let more light into the lens due to the reception being outside and dark.
Now, this is where my depression comes in. Every part of my reception footage at night all has a “smeary” look to it. It looks like what a drunk person would see. And why I’m so upset, is that there is not detail to the footage. I can’t see my wife laughing when she is dancing with her dad and I can’t see my mother crying when she is dancing with me. With every slight camera move (hand held with a DVX shooting dancing, everything is moving) the image smears. With fast moving, it smears a lot. This is with 1 hour and 40 mins worth. That’s why I’m depressed.
Thank you for being patient and now my question. I am curious if there is some “guru” out there that knows something that I don’t about how to fix or even minimize this in post. To my knowledge, I don’t know if there is. Maybe there is something that I haven’t thought about in order to add an effect on this to do something amazing. I have thought of all the ways to use it and make it something (I have no other choice). My main hope is to somehow be able to watch my main raw wedding footage as a whole and not feel like I am having motion sickness.
So, if anybody knows any tricks with decks, any software that could due this, plug-ins, anything at all. To my knowledge, once this has been shot, there isn’t anything. I’m being forced to have this look. It might look kind of cool, but for only a few shots in a half hour video. Now it is of the whole reception.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts and I hope someone can help.
All the best and Merry Christmas,
Beau Brotherton
Beau Brotherton
Macbook Pro 2.4GHz, Intel Core 2Duo, 4GB
FCP6
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Sorry, no. there is nothing practical you can do to enhance these smeary images. Detectable divisions between the pixels simply do not exist.
Save a still image from some of the best footage. Bring the still back into FCP (or Photoshop if you have it) and start randomly applying various edge detection and image enhancement filters and you will quickly see what the problems are.Try to edit together the best few moments and accept that the footage has a dreamy look and feel to it.
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