I have recently been messing around with my HV30, adding a new Rode Video mic, and gonna get a Raynox W/A lense + Lense hood. Some tests have led me to wanting to do slow motion video. After various youtube-ing sessions, I found a few tutorials, all complex require-ring several renders and other software I couldnt be botherd downloading.
So I tried using one piece of software: Adobe After Effects, and succeded!
For an example of whats possible with this technique, look at the video:
Guide (For Canon HV Camcorders, should be possible for other makes if they can record interlaced 50/60 fps (1080i))
Record your footage in 50i mode (60i mode for NTSC HV’s)
Capture your footage via firewire using HDVSplit (Great freeware to capture HDV via Firewire)
Import your captured footage into After Effects
Right click on the imported footage and select ‘Interpret Footage’ -> ‘Main’
Find the framrate option and select ‘Conform to frame rate:’ and enter in either 12.5 for halfspeed or 6.25 for quarter speed (NTSC: enter either 15 for half speed or 7.5 for quarter speed)
Press OK
Create a new comp, exact same as your footage (Drag the footage to the comp button at the bottom)
Select the comp and right click -> Composition Settings
Change the frame rate to 25 frames per second (30 for NTSC)
Press ok
Make sure to enable frame blending on your comp (Right click -> Enable Frame Blending) and set the footage layer to use Pixel Motion (Right clik on the footage -> Frame Blending -> Pixel Motion)
This will then create the frames needed to provide smooth motion, not the jittery image that you would get if you slowed it down by stretching the video.
Enjoy! + Comment =)
Thanks, And im making a new video even slower than the trampoline one soon! so stay tuned!
Im off due to school holidays for 2 weeks. I have been in maya rendering some pretty heavy stuff, so I needed to use the mental ray satellite upon my network. Basically creating a renderfarm.
I have created a manager for your maya.rayhosts file, I have had a few emails asking if there is any other ways, as my guide did not make it simple enough. While waiting for a render, I decided to create MRN Manager, Mental ray network manager.
We need to find out the IP Addresses of the slave computers, Have these handy!
Run MRN Manager, and click the ‘Browse’ button. Locate your Maya ‘Prefs’ folder. See the maya help docs for more info on the maya prefs folder.
If there is currently a maya.rayhosts file, there is no need to create one and it should be automatically detected. If there is no current maya.rayhosts file, create one using the create button.
Once you have created/located your maya.rayhosts file, Press the button to load it up.
Add, delete or edit any IPs or PC Names using the GUI, Simple.
The default port for mental ray satellite 2009 is 7109, Please refer to the documentation as to which port you should use if you are on a different version.
Now close MRN Manager, and open maya. Make sure the service ‘RaySat2009Server’ is running on any slave pc’s. This may be different for different versions. Also make sure that the process ‘raysat2009server.exe’ is running on any slave pc’s.
Cheack that the required ports are open/forwarded on all pc’s.
In maya, make sure you are using the mental ray renderer!
Select the render options, Render -> Batch Render (Select the option box on the right)
