do you guys want butter? super smooth slow motion

Jaimebailon

Jaimebailon

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ive tried many many many different techniques to try and get the smoothest slowest possible slow motion you can get with a dvx and they all failed me except for this one that i am about to share with you guys i will put up a clip of this momentarily

(this will only work with interlaced video)

ok so the first thing your going to want to do is turn the progressive scan off and shoot this at 60i with a shutter of 1/2000(make sure you have tons of light)

next step is to open up final cut and make a new sequence and change the editing time base to 23.98

nest import the footage into final cut with the basic DV-NTSC48khz setting
(make sure when logging the clip you name it something so that you can find the clip later)

now open up Cinema tools and open the clip in cinema tools and conform the clip to 23.98fps


next import your now conformed clip into your final cut 23.98 sequence

copy the clip and place it right under the existing clip

add a de-interlacing filter to both the top and bottom clip the top clip being upper and the bottom clip being lower

add a blink filter to the top clip and make sure the first two boxes are at 1 and the last box is at 0

slow both clip to 50% render and enjoy your super smooth slow motion


you may want to crop it a little because it does have a little flicker on the bottom some might say it looses a little bit of resolution also
 
If your using vimeo, good luck. there being slower then a whore after a tripple shift on the fourth of july in vegas.
 
that is pretty smooth, especially for not using a program like twixtor. Ide like to see how this technique works for something a little slower though, b/c although these were good, they werent all that slow...
 
i dont understand what everyone is always talking about, "how 24p slow motion is choppy and no good." ive shot lots of stuff 24pa and then just slowed down to 50% in fcp and it looks great. i do not see this choppyness. my footage looks just like this guys.
 
Okay so I just tried your technique exactly. Footage was of me jumping off a wall, and I did it exactly as you said. However, when I render it all out in the end...ill have 4 legs some transparent and its slightly choppy....doesnt look anything at all likes yours.

Any tips...I am tyring to upload it now.
 
NEVER MIND!

I found the solution...once I turned frame blending off it smoothed the footage right out!

Thank you so much!

Will upload finished product.
 
merc said:
i dont understand what everyone is always talking about, "how 24p slow motion is choppy and no good." ive shot lots of stuff 24pa and then just slowed down to 50% in fcp and it looks great. i do not see this choppyness. my footage looks just like this guys.
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Its more about too much motion blur, not choppyness. Its easy to get nice slo mo with your method but it inherits more motion blur, hence not smooth.
 
So i don't get how to get this clip into cinema tools without first capturing it into FCP and then exporting the clip......which then chages it to 23.98 anyway.....
 
is there another way to get it into cinema tools....cause I captured it into FCP like you listed but I open cinema tools and go to file, open clip, but the clips I imported into FCP aren't options to open so i had to put the clip into the FCP timeline, which I set to 23.98, and exported as quicktime. Now I have a quicktime clip set at 23.98 and I opened it into Cinema tools but it doesn't make sense to conform an already 23.98 clip into a 23.98 clip........ So I'm guessing I'm doing it wrong....... so what's the best way to use cinema tools? In your description of the steps you said "nest inport......" Was that for real or was it a typo meaning "next inport....."
 
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just go to your scratch disk find the file you imported and open that up in cinema tools...no need to put it on the timeline.
 
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