Ok so i saw this video of a water baloon popping on break.com and it was awesome! It went so slow i cant even explain! You can still see the water in the shape of a baloon. Can anyone tell me how to make a video like that? Wat i m really asking is.. Is there any free software I can download which I can edit videos in? To make them go really slow? I know your probaly thinking moviemaker but its not slow enough! Please help! Thanksss!!!!!
2007-07-11 03:36:10 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
George P made some good points. For the effect you want, you need a camera with a higher framerate. Although, I have found in my experience using imovie, final cut, and other programs, that even using a camera with a 28.8 frames per second capture rate, that you can get a similar effect. It will be nowhere near as crisp and defined as the video which you saw, but it's still somewhat impressive. Good Luck to you.
2007-07-11 03:47:49 · answer #1 · answered by xooxcable 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As the description of the video says, this was done with a high speed camera shooting 4000 frames per second. This was shot on film, no video camera that I know of can handle that frame rate. Standard definition video is 29.98 frames per second. So if you wanted to slow down standard video to the equivalent frame rate you'd have to slow it down (i.e. increase the time span of your video by 13342%). You'd also want to set your shutter speed (if you can) to it's highest setting.
Frankly, you won't get nearly the same quality as the example on break.com but you can attempt to emulate it. You just won't have enough data to make it look that good. The video is 5 seconds at 4,000 fps or 20,000 frames. The actual time that it is portraying is .04 seconds. Shooting at 29.98 fps you'd have 1-2 frames to work with. So shooting at a standard frame rate, your slowed down movie might just show, say the first frame and the last frame. It'd look like a slide show, not a movie.
If you're on a mac, you can use iMovie, Final Cut Express, or Final Cut Pro (that's what I use). Apple Shake does a better job at re-timing footage than FCP, but again, it's not free.
If you're on a PC, Sony Vegas, while not free, is pretty affordable and also pretty powerful. Premiere has made some improvements lately as well.
Doing any serious FX in video is non-trivial and you should expect to pay for what you want to do. After Effects is another well-recognized platform for video effects, although I've not used it.
2007-07-11 12:34:04 · answer #2 · answered by sanity_in_tx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The video you saw was probably shot on a high speed camera, then slowed down.
The only way to do this with a normal video camera would be to duplicate each frame three, or four, times. That still wouldn't look as good and would take a long time.
2007-07-11 10:44:00 · answer #3 · answered by Steve F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The software isn't the key here, its the camera. They are using a high speed camera, which takes more frames per second than the average movie camera. That is why you see the water still in the shape that its in.
As far as editing software, Pinnacle studio and Adobe Premiere are two good programs.
2007-07-11 10:42:39 · answer #4 · answered by George P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋