[Bill Scheerer]

You can do everything you’re used to doing with squeeze in compressor. Drag a setting that has a “4” icon next to it down onto your file, then highlight that setting by clicking on it in the bar below your file, once it’s highlight on the right side you will see all of the video and audio setting options and you can change to the desired output settings. Note- you have to open the presets dialogue window from the icons at the top. When you first open compressor they aren’t open. I realize this is is a very simple answer but I’m not at my computer now. Use the preset as a start to get the mp4 file extension you want and go from there. Once it’s set to your liking you can drag it over to the “custom” settings area on the left, name it and it will save it for you.

[Bill Scheerer]

I did this trick a long time ago and when it works it’s a fun effect, but tricky and takes a lot of planning. It was so long ago it was shot on beta cam! If you have the actors or just the background people physically moving at normal speed and another set of foreground people moving at half speed when you double the speed in post the background is now moving at double speed but the foreground people are moving at regular speed. When we did it we had everyone moving their body’s at regular speed but they were talking at half speed so after speeding it up everyone was moving fast but talking at regular speed. Lots of testing and trial and error needed to pull it off well. Also it helps to record the dialogue prior so you can play it at half speed on set so they know how slow to talk and then it is a VO dub in post. Lots of variations you can do on who is moving at what speed and recording at high frame rates adds to the options you can achieve with plenty of testing.