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Shutter Speed Effect?
Does anyone know how to do that cool shutter speed look that many of todays music video’s have now? It’s not exactly a strobe effect but more of the action shutter speed look similar to Saving Private Ryan but even more.
My Canon XL 2 does have great shutter speed options for this but as you know your picture gets darker and darker with each tweek of this effect, it would be great if I could get it in post with After Effects. Strobe effect can get close but seems to be missing something.
Opinions?
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Second that.
The Strobe Effect is nowhere near what you want to achieve.
Get a good DOP and do a proper shoot if you want this effect.
I’ve also heard of actual stroboscopes used to light a scene, but I think they would have to be very specialized lights if you want to rely on them absolutely being in sync with the timing of the camera. -
Hiya Danny,
Everyone was new to this stuff at one time or another. The cinematic techniques used in Ryan and Gladiator have been discussed at great length for several years so a search on various cinematography sites will yield several possible ways for you to fake it.One method is a combination of shooting at very high shutter speeds to capture hard images with no trace of motion blur and then using a frame-dropping render using something similar to strobe. In AE you’d want to explore Time Posterization.
bogiesan
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Hey thanks to all of you,
I figured that most people would say to get it from the camera with tons of light but I will also try the frame dropping technique as well. Thanks again.
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as you increase up the shutter speed, increase the iris to compensate. that should help keep your light levels up.
as far as the shutter speed to shoot for, saving private ryan was probably shot at a shutter angle between 45-90 degrees. in video that would be around 1/120 to 1/250 of a second for your shutter speed.
also, deinterlacing your footage will help to… interlacing helps to increase the smoothness of movement… you want the opposite. so taking 29.97 interlaced footage and making it 29.97 progressive will have the effect of cutting your shutter speed in half.
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