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Sony V1 200fps Smooth Slow Record Testing
Published by Matthew Jeppsen October 18th, 2007 in Cameras, News, Research
Create Digital Motion has some super slo-mo example footage up, it was shot with the Smooth Slow Record function that is available on newer Sony HDV camcorders.
“With the last batch of slow-mo clips I had some requests to further slow down the motion in post-processing. I don’t currently have any 3rd party retiming plugins, but it turns out that the 200FPS (240 for NTSC regions) is shot interlaced, so my previous tests were only displaying 100FPS progressive. To get the full motion from 200FPS on a progressive monitor I needed to slow the footage to 50% speed and de-interlace, a trivial task in any editor.Even this low-tech retiming gives you an idea of how powerful 200FPS can be. I actually had an ND filter in place to keep the shutter speed relatively low and keep a bit of a dreamy look for this shoot (the minimum allowed, of course, being faster than 1/200). With full sunlight you’d have no trouble getting up past 1/1000, which would result in very little motion blur and allow very accurate motion tracking, and some exciting retiming opportunities.”
They also address the issue of the resolution hit that you take in the slow-motion mode, and have shared a few full-res framegrabs to illustrate this. I should note that it is clear from those frames that the footage doesn’t really have the detail to be useful beyond SD resolutions, but looks quite nice when downscaled.
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