So right, I put my Canon 550D in 720X1280 mode with 60FPS and the shutter on 1000 with an automatic ISO. Then I put the footage in and tried twixtor to slow the footage down smoothly to get something like this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n1PwQyG5QA&feature=feedu[/media]
Instead, I got this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVGLsiQHVuE[/media]
Help?
It looks like your motion (the dropping) is too fast for twixtor to blend with a nice result, try zooming out / going further away with the camera.
[QUOTE=The-Stone;31801412]It looks like your motion (the dropping) is too fast for twixtor to blend with a nice result, try zooming out / going further away with the camera.[/QUOTE]
The thing is, I noticed that without twixtor it looks better.
[QUOTE=Rago;31801701]The thing is, I noticed that without twixtor it looks better.[/QUOTE]
This can be true, if you just slow it down the fps gets lowered, twixtor keeps the framerate but blends new frames in...
[QUOTE=The-Stone;31801829]This can be true, if you just slow it down the fps gets lowered, twixtor keeps the framerate but blends new frames in...[/QUOTE]
Okay made a new video zoomed out, and it looks waaay better now. Thanks
Wow that's fucking trippy
You gotta toy with twix's settings I think. There's a quick rendering mode where it catches every couple of frames and blends between, and one where it will actually key [i]every[/i] frame. I'll have a go at toying with the program another time.
Okay, so the effect is perfect now. But a shame I can't do close-up slomos.
You can, it's just Twixtor can only use what you give it and if it changes too much between each frame then you're SOL, if you slowed it down less (or slowed down gravity I suppose) you could have better results. To be honest I could have sworn After Effects frame blending was just as good as Twixtor. To be honest I never liked Twixtor, the artifacting is just too obvious 95% of the time.
If I were you I'd look into a Casio(?) Exilim camera, they're really amazing for cheap slow-motion footage, it's just a shame they can't record in 720p.
EDIT: Also don't you want the slowest shutter speed possible so the frames are already part-way blended before you even edit them?
EDIT2: And if you can, find some lamps and point them at your little figure, it's a bit grainy and if you add more lights you can crank the ISO to cut down on grain while not actually making your footage brighter. With Phantom cameras and the like they always need hot lights on whatever they're recording for the same reason.
[QUOTE=Biscuit-Boy;31849598]To be honest I could have sworn After Effects frame blending was just as good as Twixtor.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I hardly see any difference at all. Except that twixtor is expensive as shit.
it looks pretty wonky in the first video you posted, there is like a giant blur around the people when they move
[QUOTE=Biscuit-Boy;31849598]
EDIT: Also don't you want the slowest shutter speed possible so the frames are already part-way blended before you even edit them?[/QUOTE]
That would be worse, imagine taking a blurry photo and applying a blur filter to it in Photoshop it would look awful, now take a nice crisp photo and apply the filter it looks half a bad.
Get the idea?
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ES2N_1ChYM&feature=player_embedded[/url]
Me and a friend shot this using my 550D the Twixtor worked pretty well
[QUOTE=Spero78;32046596][url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ES2N_1ChYM&feature=player_embedded[/url]
Me and a friend shot this using my 550D the Twixtor worked pretty well[/QUOTE]
Looks great. I used it in this a couple times and it worked pretty well:
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=519bRHYL__0[/url] (bit old).
The plugin itself just takes a bit of toying around with to find the right settings.
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