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Creating Slow Motion Effects in Post Production

Slow motion video is cool, there’s no doubting that. But slow motion cameras are often prohibitively expensive, even to rent.

High frame-rate cameras designed specifically for playing back images in slow motion, like the Phantom Flex camera featured below, can cost upwards of $150,000

So what’s a budding young cinematographer to do?

As it turns out, there are some neat ways to create the effect of slow motion footage in post production. Twixtor, a third party software pluggin for Adobe After Effects and Final Cut Pro, is one option; however, if you have a camera that shoots even 60 frames per second, you’ll be able to do a fair bit using included Final Cut Studio applications such as Motion and Cinema Tools.

As part of our on-going guide to DSLR cinematography, I’ll be making a couple of video tutorials on some of these techniques sometime in the coming weeks.

For now though, here’s a video I did last year with my friend Flavius (a true athlete) from the University of Waterloo’s parkour club. All of the slow motion effects demonstrated in this experimental video were made using footage from the Canon T2i, a DSLR camera retailing at about $600 (a far cry from $150,000).

Stay tuned!

 

Jon’s DSLR Video Guide – Part 6: Shutter Speed & FPS

Part 6 of an ongoing series of short tutorials covering the basics of shooting HD video with DSLR cameras.

Part 6 considers shutter speed and frames per second; how they differ, how they relate, and how to use them to get the amount of motion blur/sharpness you’re looking for.

Be sure to also check out:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Lens Assembly
Part 3: On/off & Recording in Movie Mode
Part 4: Focal Length & Prime VS Zoom>
Part 5: Perspective

 

Jon’s DSLR Video Guide – Part 5: Perspective

Part 5 of an ongoing series of short tutorials covering the basics of shooting HD video with DSLR cameras.

Part 5 looks at perspective, and demonstrates how it can be used to get different shots without moving your subject or background.

Be sure to also check out:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Lens Assembly
Part 3: On/off & Recording in Movie Mode
Part 4: Focal Length & Prime VS Zoom>

 

Jon’s DLSR Video Guide – Part 4: Focal Length & Prime VS Zoom

Part 4 of an ongoing series of short tutorial videos covering the basics of shooting with DSLR cameras.

Part 4 explains focal length as well as the differences between prime and zoom lenses.

Also check out:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Lens Assembly
Part 3: On/off & Recording in Movie Mode

 

Jon’s DSLR Video Guide – Part 3: On/Off & Recording in Movie Mode

Part 3 of an ongoing series of short tutorials covering the basics of shooting video with DSLR cameras.

This segment covers basic functions like power and movie recording with the Canon T2i.

Also check out:

Part 1: Introduction
Part 2: Lens Assembly

 

Jon’s DSLR Video Guide – Part 2: Lens Assembly

Part 2 of a series of short guides covering the basics of shooting video with DSLR cameras.

This one gives a brief demonstration of how to attach/detach lenses.

Also check out:
Jon’s DSLR Video Guide – Part 1: Introduction

 

Jon’s DSLR Video Guide – Part 1: Introduction

REAP Media will be producing an ongoing series of tutorial videos covering various topics in video production!

To start things off, I thought I’d post a short series of instructional videos that I made last year on the basic principles of DSLR videography.

Although centred around the Canon T2i, most of these tutorials cover basic principles that apply to DSLR videography in general.

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