Mike Henderson
December 7th, 2005, 06:11 PM
Well, tried the other 2 Rick, doesn't do it, I think I may have now tried every software there is for this and this still leads me back to either LE6 or Dynapel, just wish the Tech from Dynapel would contact me already so I can know what the deal is!
Mike Henderson
December 8th, 2005, 04:59 AM
Finally I got a reply from the Dynapel Tech, here is his reply:
I think there is some misunderstanding of the capabilities of
SlowMotion.
SlowMotion takes an AVI file and interpolates some images inbetween the
existing to achieve a FIXED speed Slow motion.
So, afterwards you have a file with a specific Slow motion across the
whole file.
Any variable speed SlowMotion you created by taking the slider of the
MediaPlayer has nothing to do with SlowMotion but just the
MediaPlayer itself.
You will need for this to do a low key frame rate (or use the DV mode).
Also you will not be able to record this again into a file.
So, try this:
Highest SloMo factor
DV mode (or high key frame rate)
If the SloMo factor is still too low, you should try MotionPerfect
(demo first),
which can achieve arbitrary and higher SlowMo factors.
So you guys were right on the money here, I still think I will need to modify the video and then import into another player with a slider? What do you guys make of this please?
Jim Rog
December 8th, 2005, 04:32 PM
Best i seen so far
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James A. Davis
December 8th, 2005, 11:12 PM
I have some black splotches on my demo when I create slo mo footage. Also, has anyone tried 24P footage at slo mo or is that a bad idea? 60i only perhaps?
Ben Winter
December 9th, 2005, 12:00 PM
James I work with 30P and have had no problem, I don't see why 24P would be a problem (MotionPerfect retains original codec of the file). The black splotches must be a demo thing or some technical issue with you, I've never encountered them.
Mike, I still don't understand how you plan to use the "slider" to your benefit...are you playing with the slider just to see the video at whatever speed you want as you watch it, or do you actually want to record your "slide playing" onto a video? If you actually want to record the video as you move the slider, the only way you can do this is by literally pointing a camera at your computer screen.
If you're using the slider to simply watch the footage, Maybe use MotionPerfect to keep the speed at 100% but to interpolate it at like 100fps so it's decently "slo-moed" at whatever variable speed you play it at. That will take a while to render though.
Mike Henderson
December 9th, 2005, 01:53 PM
are you playing with the slider just to see the video at whatever speed you want as you watch it,
If you're using the slider to simply watch the footage, Maybe use MotionPerfect to keep the speed at 100% but to interpolate it at like 100fps so it's decently "slo-moed" at whatever variable speed you play it at. That will take a while to render though.
Bingo!! That's it Ben. I simply wish to watch the video clips at whatever speed I want as I am watching it and I am able to do this by controlling the slider with the mouse in Both the Rugby video and LE6. My video clips are only a few "seconds" long, if you guys are familiar with American Football, you will know that each "play" is only seconds long and this is what I need, to review each play but in slomo. What this means is that I can easily modify each play or clip as it's only a few seconds timewise and that is the way I record into my pc, meaning, let's say I record my son's entire game so I'll have maybe 10 minutes of actual footage, I will record each play "individually" into my pc so that's why my video files or clips are so short.
I still haven't gotten an answer to my question as far as I can tell which is, can I modify or slow down each clip and then import them into any player that has a slider like Quicktime or Windows Media Player? If so, how can I do this? Thanks for putting into words Ben what I have been trying to do but couldn't.
James A. Davis
December 10th, 2005, 01:38 AM
It looks great. It just has this morphy like outline around things that are in heavy motion. Is there a trick to avoid this. Maybe little motion in shots to be used for the slow motion software?