How to get Smooth Slow Motion

This is a pretty good way to get slowmotion footage out of your DVX but I did a little testing. See, I've got a method that's a little bit more complicated and takes a lot longer but yields better results. Check out these two screengrabs. The first one is from my method and the second one is from your method.

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The results are pretty telling. The motion fort the two is identical, but my method saves resolution and eliminates that flicker at the edge of the frame. I did make a post about it a little while ago but I never searched for slow motion so it didn't get a lot of views. Anyway, here's the post.



Alex.Mitchell said:
Maybe this is common knowledge and maybe this isn't, but shooting good looking slow motion footage with your DVX is very possible. I've got a PDF that I made up that I encourage everyone to read if they feel like it and there's also a sample clip I've uploaded so you can see if for yourself.

Here's the PDF.

Here's the video.

Have fun...

P.S. I shot the footage on my XL2 at a shutter speed of 1/15000 which is why you can see the wings on the fly at the end there if you advance it frame by frame. I opted to go with the XL for this test because of that feature, but I still love my DVX so don't worry.
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I think you did a great thing here and I'm not trying to downplay it, I'm just presenting another option.

P.S. The screengrabs in this post are from my DVX and the video was from an XL2.
 
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Alex, I must be missing something. I followed the settings listed in your pdf, but my end result turns out with just as much interlacing as the original video, though now it's slo-mo interlaced video. Any ideas?
 
anyone ever figure out how to do this in premier pro 1.5? i would love to learn the proper way of taking 60i and slowing it down to 24p.
 
Another thing i have found now owning a Canon XL2 which has Native 16:9, it looks better by alot compared to when i was doing my method with the DVX
 
Four Eyed Monstors, do you have your original tutorial video still? The link on the first page of this forum doesn't work. I would be interested in trying wha you have done.
 
what are you guys talking about................I can't find any slow motion in here..........
not smooth slow motion
 
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