John, that was a very nice slow-mo clip. What were your camera settings, like shutter?

Here's Barry's Green advice for shooting/NLE settings:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...t=glass-smooth


"Shooting 60i at 1/120th, and playing back at 50% speed, delivers glass-smooth slow motion, but with an overall softer image."

I think he did mention using "smart resample" in another post that I can't find at the moment.

unfortunately i dont remember the shutter speed. The only setting i know for sure was 60i ...and i had the camera in auto mode

John,

the quality of that is first rate! I just wish I could get results like that using Premiere Pro.

I believe Canopus have a small program for speed control available for free download. I tried this once, but i could not get it to recognise non-canopus files. This one has the advantage of being able to vary speed over the clip.

alan. I know i tried this with premiere back in the day ..and it seemed to work just as good. Maybe it's just a settings issue? ...it's crucial that you use 60i ....other than that..i'm not sure what i had selected ...no special plug-ins or anything ..just stardard premiere 1.5 i believe

Thanks John.

Maybe I had better give it another try - I have not tried it with Pro 1.5, I was still on 6.5 when I could not get it to work.

Do you mean by 60i that you had to use de-interlaced footage? As far as I recall, I did not de-interlace. I am in PAL land, so it would be 25fps for me, and thus 50i?

I have had a look on the Canopus site and it does not seem to be there any longer - I shall have to search my archived downloads. I believe you had to have a Canopus codec installed too, and there was another utility to enable you to view and use the finished file, I think?

Hvx-200
 

Buy or rent the Panasonic HVX-200
Variable frame rates can be down-converted to mini-DV INSIDE the camera

I have tested a German software called MotionPerfect by Dynapel. Check out goodervideo.com for some samples and a trial version... you may like it. It actually adds intermediary frames to your video.

This is in DV: http://motivitypictures.com/hvx200/m..._snow_day.html Edit: Oops, not sure if my post is still relevant or not, didn't realize it was a 4pg thread. :)

-Sam

I've not only tested the 60i de/re-interlaced to 60p, but have written an applescript to help do it automatically. It requires 2 image sequences to be exported, first is odd fields, second, evens. The script then takes them and shuffles them like a deck of playing cards by renaming the files. These can be imported back into the NLE and played back happily:

http://www.yafiunderground.com/Video/slomo.mov

script available upon request...recommended settings, 60i, shutter at 1/60 or 1/120 (faster for smaller timeslices - jerkier, but clearer pix).