plug-in or app for creating slo-mo?

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plug-in or app for creating slo-mo?

Last year I came across a bunch of YouTube clips demonstrating a plug-in or app for creating slow motion from regularly shot material - 24-30 fps. The plug-in or app was able to someone how extrapolate all the missing frames to get quite a spectacular slo-mo effect. I've lost the URL I thought I had so carefully saved.

I'm receiving a whole bunch of footage I have to edit into a film. The original shooting is erratic, sometimes good, sometimes quite unprofessional. I need to be able to manipulate the speed of the shots, slow them down or speed them up. The plug-in or app I remember would have been perfect.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? Any suggestions would be most appreciated...

Thank you,

Ben

Posted on Jul 19, 2011 6:26 AM

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Answer 1

Jul 19, 2011 7:20 AM in response to Ben Low

Try Twixtor: http://www.revisionfx.com/products/twixtor/

Or use the Optical Flow feature in Motion.

-DH

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Answer 2

Jul 19, 2011 7:31 AM in response to David Harbsmeier

Or FCPX.

http://fcp.co/final-cut-pro/articles/474-slow-motion-at-1-using-optical-flow-in- fcpx

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Answer 3

Jul 19, 2011 8:13 AM in response to Shawn Birmingham

"Spectacular" slow motion is only possible with properly shot media, 90 fps or more. Twixtor is really cool but so is optical flow in Motion, which you already have, which uses basically the same technology, complex pixel mapping, to extrapolate and create frames that do not exist.

However, > The original shooting is erratic, sometimes good, sometimes quite unprofessional. < suggests you think Twixtor will some\how improve the media. It will not. You can apply stylistic processing to bad video or you ca degrade your good video to look as bad as the bad video but you cannot improve bad video very much.

Let us know how this works out for you because we see similar questions often; "What can I do to improve terrible video?"

bopgiesan

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Ben Low Author

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Jul 19, 2011 9:28 AM in response to David Bogie Chq-1

Thank you guys, most helpful.

Did I say 'spectacular'? I'd settle for modestly elegant, or even competent. You are absolutely right David B. I'm not looking to improve things like really bad exposure, noise, etc. But a pan that's two fast for the tempo of a sequence? ... a little slowing, a bit of 'smoothcam' and suddenly the shot looks 'professional' instead of amateur. I just did a couple of tests using only the speed control in the motion tab of FCP and was pleasantly surprised. Is the 'speed' control in the motion tab any different than the 'Change Speed' function (Command J)?

This is a feature film and they plan on a theatrical release. So something like Twixtor might be the answer for the best quality we can generate, given the limitations of the original media. But...

David H, if the only thing I'm really needing is very clean slow-mo (given the limitations of the original media), but not super super slow-mo, would the Optical Flow in Motion give me more-or-less the same quality as Twixtor? That would be pleasant.

All ears,

Ben

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