Slow motion shooting with the Panasonic DVX-100A

[Sewellyboy]

I’m still pretty new myself, so if there is a better answer, I apologize.
by slowing the sutter speed what you would do is underexpose the image, so that won’t give you the slow motion effect you are seeking. What I would do is shoot at normal speed and then when you edit your project change the speed of the clip. I use Final Cut Pro and you do is highlight the clip and change the duration. I’m not sure what editing system you are using, and quite frankly I don’t know any other system besides FCP.
Best of luck.

[Masuga]

Actually I do remember now being told that you can do it in Final Cut Pro, which is the editing program I have (Version 4.5). I was also told that the results were not the greatest, so I am still wondering if there is any way to be able to acheive this effect while shooting. Thanks for your feedback Sewellyboy, if anyone else has any input please let me know
Thanks again,

[Tim Scarpino]

There really is no way to have the DVX do “in-camera” slow motion in the sense, or way, a traditional film camera does. This must be done in
a NLE. I’m not as familiar with FCP as I’d like to be, but I do know, in Avid Media Composer Adrenaline, there are settings for the “kind” of slow mo you want. Some perform better than others.

Look into FCP, or go the the FCP forum here at Creative Cow and ask the question. Someone should have some guidance.

Cheers,

Tim Scarpino

[Viki Kumar]

Hi im new to this section of the cow forums mainly because i intend to buy a DVX-102 B. But based on my editing experience i can say the kinda of ultra clear slow motion in the likes of the matrix can be done with high speed filming. The frame rates use during filming are very high. But in average video when you slow it down thru your NLE there will be a certain amount of smudging. Ive heard of a tool within adobe premiere pro which can interpolate what the inbetween frames should look like. I think vaguely remembering. We will have to setthe project to a high frame rate. Then load the video onto the time line. Then slow down the video using whatever tools provided. I believe this way the NLE creates interpolated frames due to the project frame rate. And when you slow this down you get a much sharper slow mo. By the way there is one DV camera that has a native slow motion mode the sony consumer end HD Cam HC-3. That has a mode to use a dv frame rate adjustment trick to capure in a mode which allows every 3 secs of shoot material to play as 12 secs in almost normal speed clarity. I guess you could further slow this down within your NLE and get some very good ultra slo-mo. Meanshile you guys who own this dvx-100 camera please reply to my new post on the film look mode. Thanks.

[Captain Mench]

One thing that REALLY helps slowmotion in FCP is interlaced footage.

I’ve done a few tests with slow motion in Shake and FCP and frame for frame, the engine in SHAKE is much better at interpolating the information if you use progressive footage.

NOW — I’ve got another technique that works GREAT if you can plan for it… it involves shooting 60i then converting that to 720p60. That’s 60 frames per second then you conform THAT to 24p and it looks GREAT!!

Can be done either with compressor or with shake.

CaptM

[Chad Gilmour]

I’ve found that the higher shutter speed you use when filming helps a ton in keeping the “smudging” or blurring look down when you slow down your footage in your NLE. I do realize you have to open up the iris more thus helping get rid of extra lattitude, but I did a wedding recently where I shot at around 1/120-1/180 shutter speed instead of the typical 1/60th and when I slowed it down it looked a hell of a lot better and I actually had a fellow colleague ask how my slow-mo footage looked so good. This technique need quite a bit of light though.