Simulate undercranking with a DSLR?

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tadaki

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Hey guys, I've got a question I was hoping you guys could help me with :)

I know that when we want to slow down footage we shoot it at a higher frame rate (eg 60fps) than we intend to play it back at (eg 30fps) - easy to do with most DSLRs now.

But what about if we wanted to speed up some footage? With film or a variable frame rate camera we could just record at a lower frame rate, say 22fps, and play it back at our intended frame rate, say 24fps. Of course, I don't know of any DSLR capable of frame rates lower than 24 at the moment (are there any?).

So does that mean we can't do anything "in camera" so to speak? Referring to real time footage and not time lapse photography in this case.

If so, is there anything wrong with simply recording at 24fps, time remapping that in after effects, and then playing it back at 24fps?

Let's say you wanted to undercrank some......stuff, cause it's er, fun :P How'd you go about doing that?

This really is mostly a hypothetical question since I don't have any footage I particularly want to speed up hahaha

Thanks for the time and sorry if I wasted it! :)
 
My usual reply is: test.

There are plenty of posts here and on other (google-able) sites dealing with best practices when shooting for time warp or twixtor. Research and test.

Speeding up often gives better results than slowing down, as you're throwing away data vs. creating it (that's an oversimplification but...)

Search & test.
 
Michael Carter said:
My usual reply is: test.

There are plenty of posts here and on other (google-able) sites dealing with best practices when shooting for time warp or twixtor. Research and test.

Speeding up often gives better results than slowing down, as you're throwing away data vs. creating it (that's an oversimplification but...)

Search & test.
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haha yep I have searched, and you're right, they're all out there for slowing down. Not so much for speeding it. What's out there can be basically summarised into "use time remap" so I just wondered if there was any other way of doing it. Thanks!
 
Go for it, as said before, taking away is much easier than adding.
 
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