- So you've probably noticed in my little DocuBlog's
that I've been obsessed with slow motion footage.
In this tutorial, I'll show you two ways
to shoot slow motion footage using a traditional camera
and an iPhone, and then how to bring that footage
into Premiere and work with it.
So the first way to shoot slow motion footage
is via a camera with high frame rate capabilities.
I'm currently renting a Sony A6500
from borrowlenses.com for Veda.
It can shoot 120 FPS which stands for framers per second.
If you don't know about FPS,
it's basically how many times a camera takes a picture
per second when shooting video.
All video is, is a string of moving pictures.
The most commonly used frame rate
is about 24 frames per second
because anything below that looks really choppy
and like stop motioney.
You can actually see the individual frames or pictures
and it doesn't provide that seamless movement
of the natural eye.
Anything above that is pretty much just extra
which allows you to add and create different effects
or really focus in on the details
of something moving very fast.
So, first thing, is shoot whatever you want to shoot.
I shot some water boiling for the sake of this tutorial.
With the A6500, I went into the camera settings,
and changed them to shoot 120 frames per second
at 1080p with 100 Amp.
So not only is it shooting 120 photos or images per second,
it's also getting a lot of information on each image
to create the video clip.
Now if you don't have a camera like a Sony A6500
to shoot at a higher frame rate,
chances are your phone shoots at a higher frame rate too.
While you loose the capabilities of adjusting things
like ISO and shutter and white balance,
you'll probably still achieve at least a similar look
for exponentially lower cost.
I have an iPhone 7, not even the 7S Plus,
or whatever they call it, but just regular degular iPhone 7.
To shoot at a higher frame rate natively,
you just go into the camera settings and change them.
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Now, we've gotten our slow motion footage on both the Sony
and my iPhone 7.
Let's hop into Premiere Pro.
Disclaimer, I moved from Final Cut Pro 7 to Premiere Pro
about five or so years ago now.
All the shortcuts that you'll here me using
are based on changing Premiere's shortcut functions
to match Final Cut Pro 7,
because that's what I learned, when I was,
back when I was in college
and all of that, and so Premiere just made it really easy
for me to adjust and switch from Final Cut Pro 7
to its platform by doing that.
So here, I've started a new project called slow motion.
I'm importing the footage from my SD card from the A6500
and I just air dropped my slow motion footage
from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro.
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You'll notice that I put the A6500 footage in twice.
There's a reason for that.
I like to keep one clip natively the same,
how it's imported, and then I adjust the others
so I can easily go back and forth
between the two during editing.
You don't have to do that, I just like to.
So I'm gonna go ahead and label one slowed.
Now, when you drop these clips on to the timeline,
they play relatively normally.
You don't really see the slow motion,
even though you shot at a higher frame per second.
You can achieve it by adjusting the speed manually,
which gives you more creative freedom during your editing.
So hit Command + J,
which brings up the speed duration adjustments
and just start playing around.
I noticed going lower than 20%,
begins to give you some choppiness and glitch
and your slow motion isn't quite as smooth.
Another way to do it,
is to go to the clip you labeled slowed, right-click on it,
go to Modify, Interpret Footage,
and adjust it to be whatever frame rate your sequence is.
In my case, because I'm here in America,
it's 24 frames per second.
You'll notice your clip is longer now,
and it's natively playing the clip at 24 frames per second
which will give it that slow motion effect.
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Now, you can drag this clip into your timeline
and again, adjust accordingly.
Boom, that's two ways to play around
with slow motion footage from your camera.
Now to your iPhone footage, it's essentially the same thing.
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So, yeah, that's how you can shoot, import, and edit
slow motion footage.
Go out and experiment.
I find that shooting really mundane things in slow motion
adds a flare to my every day life
and sparks creativity for me.
Just taking in the detail and noticing the green on a plant
or the intricacies of boiling water,
it gives me a whole new appreciation for existence
in all it's forms, just saying.
I would love to see what you all create.
Link to anything you shoot in slow motion
in the comments below,
or throw it up on Instagram and add me,
I'm @Halleasebeast.
Anyway, I hope this helps and I'll see you when I see you,
which in this case will be tomorrow,
because it's Veda.