[Thomas Luca]

To it’s most simple core all “Slow Motion” is, is boiled down to this: opposite film speed. It’s cranking the frame rate faster to get slower reactions in 24fps screened but to get that effect you must use frame rates higher than 24 fps such as 120-360+. Picture this, you want a shot with pyrotechnics involved, ok? So you CRANK, whether by hand or digitally, the camera fast to a certain count or rate such as a very high count (extreme slow motion effect) of 1,000 fps. That will give the illusion that the blast looks as though it was T.N.T., huge explosion, ok? But in reality, the actual effect was less than a second to 3 seconds in length only. Now, if the DP didn’t over-crank, that’s what we call the technique in the business, if he didn’t OVER-CRANK the footage, then it would appear fake or toy-like onscreen or given the illusion of UNDER-CRANKING which is the opposite, appearing faster onscreen (example: 28 DAYS LATER, WALKING DEAD, or when DP’s shoot for speeding vehicles effect but vehicle is only going 40mph giving the illusion 3 times faster like 120mph). Now do you understand? I put it in simple terms for you just as I do when I’m consulting people on Proof Of Concept Short Films. I’m also a Special Photographic Effects Consultant in Jersey.

[Thomas Luca]

Hello John,

Now, I’m no expert either when it comes to digital in Post Production. But here are some here that may be able to help you?…

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/stabilize_shaky_footage/

[Thomas Luca]

Hey that sounds great. It reminds me of a sequence on the opening title of the series AMAZING STORIES that Steven Spielberg produced in the 80s. And although I don’t know exactly how to remedy that technical problem, I suggest checking out Video CoPilot dot net.

https://www.videocopilot.net/tutorials/

Plug-ins

https://www.redgiant.com/products/trapcode-suite/

Hope these help and Happy Holidays! Happy Thanksgiving!

[Thomas Luca]

I think the best way but certainly not the only way these days is an old Classic tried and true technique especially used by Uncle Walt or Walt Disney, ILM, and others. They used ink or airbrush on celluloid or film. It’s similar to wire removal in the early years of Cinema. And that’s Rotoscoping. Now it is not easy by the touch of a button but it will look the best because it is done by hand and a keen eye of an artist not a machine or computer. I used to take each frame that needed painting out and send them into Photoshop then paint out then send back in After Effects. But that is just a simple way of explaining it. There’s a whole lot more to it.

[Thomas Luca]

I cannot think of anything of a solution for your problem. But, I think I know someone who can, VideoCoPilot.com