Super Slow Motion in AE CS4

andythefilmer

andythefilmer

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I want to slow down footage shot in 60i at 1/2000 from my DVX. I would like the speed to be 10% the original clip speed. How can I make this look very smooth instead of being all choppy?
 
You can't. The data just isn't there. There are workarounds other people may post to help, but it will never look great. I wouldn't say that most of the time, but ten percent of the original is too extreme in my mind.
 
You could rock some of the time remapping settings, maybe follow the videocopilot tutorial, but I'm not sure how slow you can get it.
 
There's a method I read about some time ago where one could, in theory, use the interlaced properties to slow it down to half smoothly by making two layers of video and offsetting them, then deinterlacing so each one is filling in the half of the frame taken for that image. I've never done it, so I can't give any details on the process. After that I assume you could slow it down a little more without noticable strobing, although anything less would start to suffer.
 
Ya, there a few good tutorials online about how to do the above method, it cuts your resolution a significant amount however. There is also another great plug in which the name has escaped me...nvm got it...twixtor. I have seen some spectacular results with that.
 
you can get to 10% just fine but of course you might lose a couple generations and resolution in the process. simply slow it down to say 25% using pixel motion and frame blending after deinterlacing the image. (or if youd like.. leave it interlaced if it looks any good) then create a precomp if it allows you (not sure on that one , never tried with time remappingto see results) ..or just render the output and re-import it and got rhough the process again. using pixel motion you can easily cut the playback speed to 1/4 of the original without it getting messy. really thats just halfing the speed.. which even looks fine by simply slowing the fraemrate down most of the time ..and then halfing it again. the pixel motion frame blending actaually calculates the motion of each pixel and creates a new individual frame to fill the gaps for fluid motion. 10% should be a piece of cake if you do it right, but again youll lose some detail since you should deinterlace to start for best results, but try it both ways and see what you like best. pending what the footage is you may even find good results in one step using pixel motion. in tghe future always shoot overcranked progressive to get slow mo, but since you shot interlarced you can start by slowing it to 50% and then deinterlacing it which will give you a unique progressive frame each frame at 30fps, for 50% speed right off the bat before any time remmaping. but again, your also at 1/2 visual resolution.
 
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