How to shoot ULTRA slow motion on a budget.

film making is more accessible now than it has ever been and so whether you're looking for cameras or lights or computers the prices come down so much unless you're looking for really high quality Ultra slow motion still exceedingly expensive where is it yes ultra high quality Ultra slow motion is still wildly expensive freefly has been trying to get the price down but that's still like 20 grand So today we're not talking about cameras we're going to talk about the new Final Cut Pro 10.8 update which now includes a machine learning AI enhanced slow motion feature but the information in this video will be applicable whether you're a premier editor a resolve editor or whatever software editor so in this video I'm going to go over some of the limitations of that AI enhanced slow motion as well as showing you the best settings to use in order to make the most of that AI enhanced slow motion and then also some tips on how to use that AI enhanced slow motion for non-s slow motion purposes and this is something I've used dozens of times over the last decade in wedding films and corporate movies Kickstarter videos all sorts of things basically anytime someone is talking to camera oh and if you stick around till the end I'll show you how we made that intro though I suspect you might already know how and if you don't you probably will by the end of this video because there was some [Music] Jank the new Final Cut Pro 10.8 update brings us their first real attempt at AI machine learning generated slow motion and so what this means is the software is going to analyze your footage and figure out what's happening and when so that when you slow it down it can generate new frames in between your existing ones and they are by no means the first company the first software to do this this idea goes back to I think 2001 roughly with uh revision effects they had an app called twixer it's the first time I saw it and since then you can find similar things in Premiere After Effects I'm mostly sure in resolve as well though I haven't used that one and now in Final Cut as well but let's get practical we're over here the first and most important thing when you're setting up your camera for the slow motion is your shutter speed now in film typically you want to keep your shutter speed at Double your frame rate so at 24 frames a second shot is going to require a 48 of a second shutter speed or 50th if that's all your camera allows so if what you're looking for is to simulate 500 frames per second then you're going to want to set your shutter speed to 1 1,000 of a second the reason for this is that the software needs really sharp frames in order to understand what's going on if your subject is hidden in a bunch of motion blur then the results aren't going to look very good because the software can't figure out what's what the next thing you're going to want to keep in mind when it comes to getting your settings right is the frame rate that you choose to shoot in because in in order for the software to work it's going to need to have some type of Persistence of motion between the frames it needs to understand where one thing is and where it's going and if there's too much motion between frames there's no real way for the software to understand which one is which one and what needs to be in between the two can you play with me can you come spray me with the hose so if for example I were to be sprayed with this hose in 24 frames a second there's no real way for the software even with super high shutter speeds to understand which water droplet becomes which water droplet and then to create those frames in between if your camera or phone can shoot 60 frames a second that's going to look a little bit better and if it can shoot 120 frames a second it's going to look even better and I think I think shooting 240 frames a second we might almost be able to freeze time or at least some of the water drops so keep in mind that depend depending on the speed of the object that you're hoping to slow down you're going to choose a different frame rate 24 frames a second might do great to slow down someone waving or smiling or laughing whereas somebody sprinting or shooting a Nerf gun is going to require higher frame rates in order to make sure the software has a persistent motion between [Music] frames Maybe [Music] today's video was help made possible by Art list which if you don't know is a music subscription platform or at least that's how they started back in I don't know 2016 or 17 that's at least when I started paying for their services and I've been using them ever since and they have saved me bucket loads of money on music licensing they also have a lot more than just music licensing now which you can look at on their website but I want to talk about something they just launched this past week called AI voiceover and when I tell you it blew me away I tell you the truth and I'm always telling you the truth why wouldn't I all you need to do is type your script or single sentence that you want voiced over and it spits out almost instantly an incredible sounding voice over but it doesn't stop there not only are there different voices for you to choose from but it also gives you little sliders like a style enhancement slider so these are going to let you change change the emotional range of that voiceover you can also have it regenerate with a slider that changes how similar it was to the last one generated but it doesn't stop there but it doesn't stop there but it doesn't stop there but it doesn't stop there so that you can try and get different inflection points on different words and I think this is going to be huge for all sorts of different types of video producers but specifically for video creators like me and I know most of the people who watch my videos this is a GameChanger because you can go from idea to finished product so much faster than ever before so thank you so much to artless for sponsoring this video but more importantly thank you for making a service that I love something that I can actually use in my daytoday personal and corporate videos I love you more than you'll ever know let's dive into those practical applications the first being that nons slow motion application the one that I've used for my entire career and the second we'll talk briefly about the intro let's imagine you had just filmed a wedding and the grandfather of the Bride just gave this really emotional speech and there's this one closing sentence you really want to use more than you'll ever know but right at the end of that sentence Grandpa sniff so for the edit you have two options you can either hide the very end of that sentence with some b roll or something like that maybe the grandpa hugging the couple at the end but what I've always found most impactful is that when you're delivering that final emotional line you really want to include the emotional weight of the footage of the speaker to close out that section what you can do is you can take the last couple frames of him talking right before the sneeze was initiated and at least in my hotkeys you hit shift n it's going to create a new speed ramp section and just for that section we can essentially slow out just those few frames to sometimes as slow as 3 or 4% make sure you're not also affecting the audio there you can essentially take just the moments where his mouth is closing or where his eyes look up and you slow that down as if the sneeze never happened I love you more than you'll ever know now you don't want to push this too far but I do find it gives you just enough space before maybe jump jumping back into the Montage or the B- roll to make it feel natural so give this a shot next time you want to take a sentence in the middle of someone's uh Speech and make it feel like the closer works really well sometimes all right now let's have a look at this intro this is my current timeline but you'll notice it's mostly just sound effects music uh some adjustment layers which are kind of the zooming in and zooming out and then and one track called intro six now the reason I did this is because there's a lot of layers going on in here as well as some adjustment layers that add faux motion blur back into the footage and that can just really bog down your edit so I'll often take some of these more complex sections I'll export them as prores and then start a new timeline just with that open up just the intro piece here and you'll notice there's a lot more layers some of them are disabled looking at the raw Clips here it's a lot more obvious what's going on I've got Kristoff over on the right uh with a light stand and an apple on top of it and Kristoff will throw me that Apple I'll catch it I'll be delivering my lines sit down and I throw the Apple in real time hoping to get it close enough to the final Apple then after getting this right we make sure to pull everything out of frame in order to get a clean plate so this is going to allow us to mask things out of that other shot and replace it with what would have been behind them so using a mix of that Clean Plate and various layers of masked footage from that original clip I'm able to adjust the speed of different elements in the frame independently and then mash them all together as if it was one frame from the beginning finally once I had the Speed ramp on the Apple the way I wanted it we rotoscoped it so that it could be its own separate layer and then I could key frame the position of that apple to land as close to the apple on the light standand was as possible a surprisingly simple though not necessarily easy or quick process to pull off something that I think is pretty neat unfortunately the rotoscoping of the Apple had some glitchy errors at the very end of it before I catch it and that happened because I have a pretty distracting background so the edges of the Apple aren't always identical especially with Reflections and the rotoscoping just had a little bit of a problem there so if I were to do this again I would try and make sure that the background behind the object that's floating stays a lot more consistent if you shot this on just a white wall the rotoscope would have no problem at all tracking that Apple so there you have it that's how I use AI slow motion in my day-to-day life sometimes it's for Creative videos like this and sometimes it's more practical applications like this oh and shout out to artless for being a fantastic um service that I've Loved for many many years as well as uh sponsor of the channel so check cck the link down in the description go find out more and seriously you've got to try this AI voice over very very cool bye-bye now you're great maybe who knows

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Published: Wed Jul 03 2024