I am trying to recreate this effect, where the camera stutters in on a flying-in shot (I know that sounds a little weird). But was just curious how best to do this? Is it kind of a bumpy speed ramping or velocity effect?
The effect is show in this clip:
from :15 to :18 second mark, where Jack Lord is standing on the lanai at the Ilikai Hotel.
Honestly, for being almost exactly 50 years old, this intro was creatively edited and still looks cool to me.
They are using a combination of speeding up as well as skipping some frames. the trick is skipping the correct ones.
Yeah, I guess I will just have to experiment with it to get it right. At the very end, it almost looks like the effect they call now hyperzoom, where it pushes in really quickly. They did a good job because it looks pretty seamless to me.
Ok, I broke it down pretty much frame by frame. What they are doing is almost like Morse code with the frames. Every three frames, they duplicate the third frame either once or twice, so the pattern is:
1 2 3 3 3 4 5 6 6 7 8 9 9. and so on. Then, on top of that, they are selectively adding velocity. It looks like they might have cut some frames too, but that's hard to tell except in parts where there is more blur between the frames or the shot seems to have traveled more distance than in the other shots.
I might have too much time on my hands, but this is a nice effect I'd like to use. I think Premiere has an effect called Posterize Motion that tries to do something like this, but to me it just looks choppy.
There is a VASST Software Fastapp (Stutter?) that may help with that. I think it's $12 or so. Worth a try?
Try Playback rate + Undersample rate (like PR 4.0, UR 0.1)