SLOW-MO (Band of Brothers Style)

Steele404 wrote on 3/15/2002, 2:58 PM
I need help over how to make the video clip slow motions at very low frame per sec, but yet the people it it moves in relation to the real world...

Okay, like, every 0.5 sec, the video shows a picture of a man moves to the next position after 0.5 secs. See what I mean? And also, make it as a fade transitions...

Like the Band of Brothers Intro scene..

Comments

londoner wrote on 3/15/2002, 3:52 PM
Not sure if I completely undertand what you want to achieve but if you want to have a slow motion background with a normal speed person in the foreground this *might* work:
1. Shoot the background and insert as a separate track.
2. Use the velocity envelope to slow it down.
3. Shoot the person in the foreground against a blue screen (lighting the blue screen correctly so that it appears "flat" is very important.
4. Use chroma keying to superimpose the person in the foreground onto the background.

I've used these techniques separately but not together so I can't say for sure how that would all work but it is probably worth a try.
Chienworks wrote on 3/15/2002, 4:24 PM
I think i see what you're after ... normal speed movement overall, but only 2 frames per second, right? You can change your project properties to 2 frames per second and you'll get that. If you need to have only one section of your project run that way, you can load only that clip onto the timeline, set the properties, render it to a new file, and then load that new file into the whole project. However, this won't accomplish the fades. The only way i can think of to do that is to save each frame you want as a still image, then load those images onto the timeline overlapping them.
DougHamm wrote on 3/15/2002, 4:36 PM
One of the Spice Filters will do just that, I believe.

-Doug
Chienworks wrote on 3/15/2002, 4:49 PM
Is this the effect you're after? http://www.chienworks.com/media/fadestep.wmv
sorry, it's almost 1.4MB
This was done with the procedure i described above.

(added after the fact)
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Steele404 wrote on 3/15/2002, 11:40 PM
yeah... that's the effect i want...

(what is a spice effect? how come I don't have it)

but, editing frame by frame? hmmm.... sounds alot of time, but anyways....

thanks man
Cheesehole wrote on 3/15/2002, 11:44 PM
yeah, the Spice Filter called Step Time. nice call Doug, I own Spice and didn't even think of it!

I believe it does EXACTLY what you want Steele with about three mouse clicks :) I just tried it with the "Step Ghosting" preset and cranked the frame delay up to 15 (giving you the .5 second you are after) and it has the transitions and everything.

so go here and buy Pixelan Spice Filters (NOT SPICE MASTER THAT'S SOMETHING DIFFERENT but it's cool too I have it)
http://www.pixelan.com/

- ben (cheesehole!)