How do I shoot slow motion video?
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- 46degrees
What type of camera and how do I shoot a video like this?
I tried this type of stuff with a normal Sony handycam and when I slow it down it looks shit.
- radar0
SSSLLLOOOOOOWWWWWW MMMOOOOOOTTTIOOONNN!
- russet0
Try some editors for video.
- antistatic0
You need a high-speed camera. It's a camera that shoots at high fps so when you play that at normal fps it looks slow but very smooth. Higher fps camera can obtain, smoother and slower result you have at the end
- ha ha ha we all of us the cool guys said the same thing ha hachossy
- chossy0
it's not slow motion it's actually high speed!!!!
you shoot it on film and you run the film at say 200 frames per second, then you play it back at the normal 25 frames per second therefore you get more images making up the second so you have a clearer 'slow motion' shot, :) if you want to do this on a DV camera your fucked doesn't do it justice.
- designerror0
you need 1000's of frames per second
costly gear
- eb60
Some new consumer HD video cameras can do 240 fps. Not perfect but cheaper than 1000 fps.
- its_only_me0
Youre not gonna buy one are you?
Surley you can just rent a fancy camera for the day.
- menos0
1000 is slow. go for the 250,000 fps!!
- slappy0
You can do it mythbusters style with a expensive highspeed digital cam but if you want good quality then 8mm/16mm film cameras are the go. Thats what we used at the doco company I worked for. Fun watching a ten inch reel go through the camera in 30 seconds.
- OBEY_GT10
russet, I'm beginning to think you're a total idiot.
- OBEY_GT10
Slappy, what camera did you use?
- wordsinyourmouth0
you could do a really bad fake and just do time shrink / expand in AE or final cut
- Fightingforart0
your a moron, fix it in post.
- madirish0
you mean "you're" a moran?
lol
- Mimio0
You crank the hand thing really really fast.
- stoplying0
We shoot on an HVX-200 all the time and the overcrank on it looks tits. Also shoots to a P2 card, no more tapes!
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- pr20
i like questions like that -- they keep reminding me that thsi is designer forum not filmmaking one.
At this moment the cheapes way to get great slow-mo is with dirt-cheap to rent HD camera Panasonic HVX200 (about $250/day) it can shoot at 60fps, so when u put it in 24fps (film speed) timeline you will get perfect 2.5x slower slow-mo.
There are other choices including Phantom camera that can shoot 1000fps... and will cost u about $3000/day to rent.
- grunttt0
push
the
button
really
really
really
really
slowly.
i
recommend
using
a
tripod
- 46degrees0
$3,000 beans a day! Ouch
I did a few searches and found some places but it's all rentals with no prices, so im guessing it's so expensive they don't want to advertise it.
I guess I'll need to change my idea. Lucky I havn't pitched the concepts to the client yet. It's be cheaper to do this in 3D than to shot this in highspeed.
- monNom0
I think they use special effects for that.