Time Freeze Effectt

[Paul Esteves]

Unfortunately, I think you’re out of luck. It’s not possible to achieve this look without a time-splice rig (a bunch of cameras). If it’s for a paid gig, hire a rig out and use it for the stuff you need.

[Jim Arco]

There have been several rather successful “single camera” time slice techniques. They range from a rig that moves the camera around (while the actors remain frozen), to complicated post techniques where you cut a still images into layers and manipulate them in AE.

None of them can achieve exactly what a multi-camera rig can achieve, but you can get very convincing results, trading production/post-production time for cost.

Try youtube or even big-G with “time slice,” “time freeze,” or “bullet time with one camera.”

Jim
Colorburst Video

[Soham Jani]

What about me slowly doing the scene with the camera moving around me and motion tracking green screen footage of a bullet traveling across the screen at a certain angle to me and the footage will stick to me while the bullet in the footage will move across me?….kinda get what I’m saying?

[Jim Arco]

Instead of shooting “green screen footage of a bullet traveling across the screen” you could just 3D animate a still image of the bullet, then add the air-turbulence typically seen with slo-mo projectiles.

Jim
Colorburst Video

[Soham Jani]

How do you animate a still image? If it’s still, then enabling the 3D toggle probably won’t make it look that great…

[Jim Arco]

Paul,

I was referring to moving an image of just a bullet around in the comp to simulate a bullet traveling across the screen. So put the bullet on one side of the comp, set a keyframe, then move the bullet to the other side and set another keyframe. Or put a 3D bullet on a 3D layer and move it in three dimensions.

Jim