Slow Motion

Although Joey Brennan and I are planning on making a stop motion film, with the aid of Patrick Flynn. I still believed that this would make a good article to read. In saying this How To Make a Slow Motion Video Clip, by Mark Montgomery. The major sections of this article were the basics of editing to create low motion and the use of playback and frame rates. Within frame rates is a simple concept of time, if you decide you would like an 80% speed reduction, then one would simply play back a thirty FPS clip in a twenty-four FPS time section. By doing this you do not drop frames, the extra six frames are simply broken down and added to close clips making each of the 24 FPS last 1 and 1/4 their normal time. Also the other option is to create a 40% reduction by recording in sixty FPS and playing it back in the same time as twenty-four FPS. Although this may seem a little hazy to some, there is an alternative route, this being… software. Software comes to the rescue, as always, to create a fail-safe way of creating slow motion without taking extra frames with the camera and slowing them down manually. With specialty programs, or even just Final Cut Pro, on can reduce the speed at which a section is presented by percentages, even reaching the ability to do 1% of normal speed, which may be used in a long transition piece where a constant decrease in frame speed is shown. All in all, this was a very interesting piece and it was neat to learn some of the history behind slow-mo and other options to receiving desired affects. Although I may not use this in my next film as it is a stop motion, I hope to use my new found knowledge to get out there and make better videos!