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Chienworks wrote on 4/11/2005, 8:00 PM
Your difficulty will be that the source material is still coming in at 29.97 or 24 fps. If your source camera is NTSC and you capture 1000 fps, you'll simply end up with sets of 33 (or 34) repeated identical frames for each 30th of a second.

What you need is a high-speed camera capable of faster frame rates. This won't be DV, and most likely the usual firewire capture methods won't be applicable.
skibumm101 wrote on 4/11/2005, 8:15 PM
thanks, but i know there has to be a way. I was at my gold course today, and the golf pro was training on swings. He was using a mini dv camera with a fire wire connection connected to a base unit. He would record the golf swing at very high frame rates, and the slow motion analysis was very clear and precises. If not possible, thanks anyway
farss wrote on 4/11/2005, 8:33 PM
If you're trying to do slow motion using a normal DV camera you need to use fast shutter speeds, that'll help however conventional DV cameras do not go above 60i, best you can do with that is to ditch every second field at treat it as 60fps which isn't that fast.

I've looked into high speed cameras, upto 5000fps. They COST ($25K and very upwards), also to record more than 8 seconds you need to get the video onto a hard disk, think LOTS of fibre optic connections and very fast disk arrays. Stunning results can be obtained but this is WAY overkill for a golf swing, more suitable for bullets and arrows etc.
Bob.
WedVidMan wrote on 4/11/2005, 8:48 PM
In addition to the high frame rates the previous posts mentioned, your golf pro was probably recording in progressive recording mode. According to my sony camcorder manual (just happen to have it handy :) ), ....still images produced this way are ....more suitable for analyzing high-speed action such as sport scenes (they depict a person swinging a golf club...however, you may be subject to jitter . They go on to say they recommend using normal mode... so, back to the square of 1??
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 4/11/2005, 9:08 PM
Your best bet to get that slow mo looking frame rate, is to get a software/program that uses an algorithim that creates frames inbetween based on previous frames, and follwing frames. (there are some out there that are not too badly priced, but may not be that effective in everything) Motion perfect is an example, I think Borris Red 3.0 has something like this in it. (1,500 I think?). That's the best possible solution to do this from footage that you have already recorded. Otherwise, if you were REALLY determined to do it, RENT the gear you'd need (probably have to be film to do cost effectively with rental) - still probably gonna cost you as much / more than just buying Borris Red 3.0 and then you'd still have to get the film telecined to a digital format.

Hope that helps.

Dave
johnmeyer wrote on 4/11/2005, 9:21 PM
My guess is that the video was manipulated somehow with something like MotionPerfect, as mentioned by the previous poster. If you do a search, you will find at least one very long thread on this subject about six months ago, with lots of specific recommendations for special high speed video cameras. As already pointed out, they are VERY expensive.

One alternative often mentioned is to get a film camera, and use that (remember film?). Unless you have pretty exotic needs, this can often work well.