i have a camcorder how do i make it go slow mo like them slow mo camera? with the bullet and the apple??

Question

i wonder how to do that

Answer 1

You don't do it with the camcorder you currently own. it takes pictures at 30 frames per second. A bullet travels at 1000 feet per second. In the period of a single frame, the bullet travels 30 feet!!! When you view your video, the bullet will appear as a blur in only one frame. The apple will be normal in one frame and destroyed in the next. There is no "slo-mo" sequence of in-between frames possible.

The motion of the bullet can be frozen in time using a very fast strobe light, that is how still pictures are done. To get a sequence of frames, it takes a high speed camera capable of shooting 1000s of frames per second. No consumer gear can do that.

Answer 2

If you want to slow things down a bit, you can adjust the playback rate in the video editor. If you're really trying to do something like filming a bullet you need some very specialised and very very expensive high speed camera equipment.

Answer 3

You'll almost need to transfer the video to your PC for slow-motion editing.
If you want slow motion bullet flying effect like those you see in the documentaries, you'll need VERY high speed video recorder to capture the scene and then playback in normal speed to see it in slow motion. Those slow-motion bullet shots you see in Hollywood movies are most likely computer generated.
Like me, if you have a home camcorder, then the best results you can achieve is a slow-motion that is at best 1/4 of the normal playback speed. I use virtualdub freeware to do that:
- First change the output frame rate: you do that in the “Video frame rate control” window under “Source rate adjustment”, "Change to" a lower value, say "9.99", to give you a slow motion that will playback at one third of normal speed (in NTSC).
- Next, you must also check the "Convert to fps" checkbox in “Frame rate conversion”. Here you would enter 29.97 for NTSC.
- Use "Direct Video Stream Copy" and not with any video processing.
- If you want to play the audio in slow motion too, it goes more complicated. You'll need to use the audio "Stretch" filters and you'll need to set up all the parameters carefully.
- Finally, "Save to AVI" and you'll get your slow motion DV video.

Most modern home video editing software already does slow-motion easily but like I said, only up to certain speed before the video gets too jerky. Definitely not flying bullet!

Answer 4

Well, there are hardly any that are current. The only one I could find is linked Check the specs carefully. It does say 600fps, BUT this will be for a very short time, perhaps a second or two, and not necessarily in HD.

Answer 5

Your camcorder won't be able to film in slow motion like those "ultra-slow" cameras that show bullets going through fruit and other items. For those kinds of effects, they actually use a "high-speed" camera that records the event at a very high rate of speed. Then for playback they show the film at a normal frame rate instead of the high speed, and you see the results as slow motion.

Common cameras used for this kind of photography are the Photron (http://www.photron.com), Phantom (http://www.visionresearch.com), and the i-SPEED by Olympus (http://www.olympusindustrial.com/index.cfm/page/products.index.cfm/cid/2439/navid/304/parentid/185).

You can always learn more by looking up "high-speed photography" in your favorite search engine!

Answer 6

i bet you mine is the best anwser ok hook up the camera to computer and click play and adjust speed

Answer 7

i have a sonny camcorder,it's in the setting's

Answer 8

Not a good idea

Answer 9

It is not done with the camera, it is done with the software used to edit it

Answer 10

i believe it is in the editing.. and that the bullet and apple isn't real footage..