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60p to 24p Slow Motion Tutorial

by Michael on July 13, 2012 in Tutorial, Video with No comments

A quick tutorial on converting your 60p video to 24p slow motion. This is referred to as “overcranking”. The method is very simple: slowing the footage down to 40% of its original speed. This creates a TRUE slowdown with no frame blending, motion estimation, or “creation” of frames.

0:00 – Slowing down 60p footage for 24p Slow Motion
1:31 – Slowing down multiple clips in ONE step!

Please bestow a ♥ like or leave a ✉ comment if you have questions!

UPDATE: Added 30p to 24p conversion method below (otherwise referred to as the ‘dreamy’ slo-mo effect). Also added some example links.

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To calculate the speed at which your footage should be at, just divide the OUTPUT frame rate by the ORIGINAL FOOTAGE frame rate. For example:

OUTPUT frame rate / ORIGINAL FOOTAGE = percentage of slowdown. In this tutorial example,

23.976
divided by
59.94
equals
0.40

The quotient (0.40) is your percentage (40%).

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NTSC Scenarios:

Project: 24p (23.976 fps)
Unedited footage: 60p (59.94 fps)
Desired output: 24p overcranked (slowmo)
Method: The method in the tutorial explains this scenario. (23.976 timeline, drop 60p footage in, set speed to 40%, export as 23.976 [24p])

Project: 24p (23.976 fps)
Unedited footage: 30p (29.97 fps)
Desired output: 24p overcranked (‘Dreamy’ slowmo)
Method: 23.976 timeline, drop 30p footage in, set speed to 80%, export as 23.976 (24p)

Project: 30p (29.97 fps)
Unedited footage: 60p (59.94 fps)
Desired output: 30p overcranked (slowmo)
Method: 29.97 timeline, drop 60p footage in, set speed to 50%, export as 29.97 (30p)

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PAL Scenarios:

Project: 25p (25.00 fps)
Unedited footage: 50p (50.00 fps)
Desired output: 25p overcranked (slowmo)
Method: 25.00 timeline, drop 50p footage in, set speed to 50%, export as 25.00 (25p)

Project: 25p (25.00 fps)
Unedited footage: 60p (59.94 fps)
Desired output: 25p overcranked (slowmo)
Method: 25.00 timeline, drop 60p footage in, set speed to 41.7%, export as 25.00 (25p)

Audio: Audacity + Zoom H4n + Redhead Windscreen

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Night Skiing at Brighton Ski Resort!

by Michael on October 4, 2011 in Video with 3 Comments

I thought I would change things up a bit (I am itching to go skiing again this season!!).  Hope you like it.

It was very dark and extremely windy that night!  Watch this eerie dark trip down a run at Brighton Ski Resort in Utah. Windy like a blizzard. That’s my dad skiing ahead – I used my tripod as a stabilizer.

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Canon EOS 7D, shot in 24p
Canon 17-85mm IS
Zoom H4n
Redhead Windscreen (Gunmetal)
Manfrotto Tripod as a ‘stabilizer’ :)

HDR-like color correction in Premiere.

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H4n audio spruced up with Premiere’s compressor. The H4n did well with the Redhead Windscreen. It was very, very windy out (the video doesn’t do it justice) – yet the Redhead really held up. Snow was piling up in my lens hood, and the Redhead was CAKED in white flakes. Later, I shook it off and let it air dry. I thought for sure it would get ‘matted’, but it nearly returned to its original fuzziness after it dried. redheadwindscreens.com

I shot in these blizzard conditions with my 7D, Canon 17-85mm IS lens, Olympus Zuiko f1.8 50mm manual lens, H4n, and Redhead windscreen for approximately an hour. During that time, I changed lenses in the snow and the 7D had no problems. The LCD screens on both the 7D and H4n were ghosting, but were still fully functional. The temperature was around 20º.

-Michael