Slow Motion Videography

Posted: February 17, 2011

Slow motion videography is a technology that allows us to extend our senses beyond their natural capacities. We are so accustomed to seeing things in normal speed that when something is slowed down, it brings our vision into higher focus. Since our brains have a limited amount of processing power for visual images, slow motion allows much more of the image to be seen and taken in by the eyes.

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Getting a good slow motion shot takes sophisticated equipment plus really good lighting. If you’re trying to shoot slow-mo on your own, you don’t necessarily need something as high-end as the Phantom Gold, but don’t bother wasting your time trying to get good slow mo with your basic cheap model camcorder. It won’t happen. Here is why.

Standard video records at 30 frames per second. Standard motion picture film records at 24 frames per second. Virtually everything that moves goes WAAAAY too fast for that. If you look at standard 30-frame-per-second video of a moving object, each individual frame will look blurry. There is no way to get rid of this blur once it has been recorded. Especially in a lower light situation, a standard model camcorder will record blurry individual frames of anything moving . It looks OK played back at regular speed, but if you slow it down the blur becomes real obvious and even overwhelming.

To get great slow motion video, you have to record at a rate MUCH faster than 30-frames-per-second. Inexpensive camcorders simply will not do this, more expensive ones will.

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Author: Lorraine Grula