How can I get this effect?

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Phil1076

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I posted this in the Premiere section and I'm hoping I can get more advice in the AE forum instead.

Basically, I've tried time remapping a Glidecam shot I did for a couple in Premiere and it looked ok...just ok, but nowhere near as smooth and sexy as the video below. I'm assuming he used AE/Timewarp but I'd love to know if any experienced guys know how to do this.

I'll repost my original message:

Please take a look at this video:

http://vimeo.com/9347876


At 00:28 and 00:53, he does some sort of fast motion....I know how to increase the speed of the footage in Premiere, but I don't know how he got it to look so smooth. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.
 
That's nothing special, just ramping up the speed then slowing back down. Looks like he's slowing it back down to normal speed, he may have shot it slo-mo in the first place which helps. That looks like what happened. It's hard to get results that smooth if you didn't shoot slo-mo unless there's very little movement in the frame,.
 
Its a Plug-in called Twixtor for after effects. Check it out...I believe you can use it for Premier Pro as well.
 
JoeJITSU said:
Its a Plug-in called Twixtor for after effects. Check it out...I believe you can use it for Premier Pro as well.
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Timewarp does the same thing that Twixtor does. Even with Twixtor it's not “buy the plug-in and bam you have that awesome slo-mo footage” (which that video wasn't that good anyways). It doesn't work like that. It really depends on the footage and the desired effect.
 
Pardon the stupid question but how would you "shoot in slow mo"? Do you mean shooting in 60p, for example, and importing into a 24p timeline?

I'm not too concerned with the speed up/slow down; I'm just impressed with the smoothness of the shots (which, I admit, are overused in the video).
 
Yeah, for most cameras you'd shoot at 60 and playback at 24. This way you can always speed up to play at 24 in real-time then slow it down to 100% for slo-mo since you started with 60 at 24. At this point you can use Timewarp or Twixtor to slow down even further with less artifacting/ghosting, etc.

For example, if you shoot at 60 fps and play that back at 100% speed in a 24fps timeline you will have slo-mo footage. If you speed that footage up to 250% (60/24=2.5*100=250) you will have 24fps footage as if you shot 24 from the get go. Now you can add Timewarp, set a keyframe for 250% then set another keyframe where you want to slow it down at 100% (or slower), then set another keyframe back at 250% and your footage will ramp from real-time to slow back up.
 
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