Stutter while slow motion Varicam 24 frames.

[Rene Hazekamp]

I’ve never tried that before, but I think the slomo will be computer generated in either way. How good it will be depends on the software and how comfortable you are in using it. I know Shake can make good slomos, If there is movement in your shot (and since you have stutter problems I suppose there is), the best way to slow it down is by using an optical flow technique (right words (?), in contrast to frame blending or just frame multiplication.

Personally I ‘ld try to make the slomo as good as possible long before printing the program to film, because then I’ld have the most control over the timing of the sequence. And Shake is actually fun to learn, making a simple slomo in it is quite straight forward.

so, hope it helps

Rene A. Hazekamp director, editor and bon vivant off course

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[Captain Mench]

Check this out…

FCP vs Shake

The footage was 24pA off a dvx100 with the pulldown removed — so it’s moving at 23.98.

I brought it into FCP and slowed it to 50% adn then moved it to Shake and slowed it to .5 (50%)

This is the full clips, plus a Common node at the end where the black shows what’s NOT in common between the two clips.

https://homepage.mac.com/captmench/SlowMo2.mov
(give it a chance… lost the fast load tag)

In THIS clip… I set it to change between clips every two frames. What you’ll notice is the white truck in the background during the interpolated frames… remember, 50% is 1 true frame, 1 interpolated frame…

https://homepage.mac.com/captmench/SlowMo3.mov

CaptM

[Captain Mench]

Ugh! Sorry, my site will be down until the 1st of July. DARN APPLE!!! You guys are killing my bandwidth!!

… nevermind.

CaptM

[Jeremy Garchow]

If you are working in true progressive, I find turning off frame blending smoothes out the image some. you can also use compressor and apple’s version of optical flow but it takes a long long time. Twixtor is amazing, but also not a speed demon. Never tried Shake.