hi so this video is just going to be talking about slow-motion the different kinds you
can get how you set it up in your camera what they all look like and ultimately how
you edit it so if that's something you think you're interested in stick around
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of my channel help me to help you guys learn stuff by helping me grow this channel so this is a guide
basically for people who are brand new to slow motion they want to learn about it how it works
that kind of thing so everything I talk about today is going to be related to specifically Sony
cameras now you can apply a lot of this to Canon and Panasonic to the basic principles are all
the same so a lot of modern-day cameras now have the ability to shoot in slow motion there are two
different kinds of slow motion currently available in most cameras 60 frames a second and 120 frames
a second so your camera may have one of those modes obviously 120 is going to be better but
60 frames a second is still good and still very usable so more often than not when you're shooting
with your camera you're gonna be shooting in a regular frame rate which is probably 24 frames
a second or 30 frames a second the first thing you need to be able to do to film properly in
slow motion is to set up your camera so that it's either in the 60 or 120 frames a second that's
gonna allow you then when you're editing in Final Cut or Premiere to slow it right down alright so
I'm gonna show you the settings here in an a6000 remember I said you can't apply the same things
to your Canon or your Panasonic you just have to find kind of the similar menu same thing goes for
if you're shooting within a 60 360 500 or another Sony camera look for the menu that looks very
similar to this it's gonna be one of the first menus that you can see so let's see if I can do
this backwards while close up to the camera here so you're ready to take a picture or shoot a video
you tap on the menu button there you're gonna be in the first tab and you want to scroll to number
two wrong way so first tab number two and you see how there you have the record setting if you click
on that you have 60 30 and 24 that refers to your frame rate so 24 or 30 is what you'd regularly
shoot most video app and the 50m there means megabits per second the higher the megabits per
second the better the quality the video is going to be we only have the 50 option here if you're
shooting a different Camry you might have 160 is what you're going to want to select for 60 frames
a second which is basic slung on if you have 120 it will be in here too but we're gonna select 60
there's one other kind of rule or guideline that you might want to apply when shooting in
slow motion you don't have to do this by any means but it just kind of makes everything look a little
bit more natural and that is to double the shutter speed over your frame rate so what I mean by that
is if you're shooting in 60 frames a second your shutter speed wants to be doubled out as close
as you can get to that so if you're shooting in 60 frames a second you would want to have your
shutter speed as close as you can get to double that which would be 125 if you're shooting in
120 frames a second you want to shutter speed to be probably like 250 or as I said you don't have
to do this by any means it's just kind of like a one of those rules that's like a guideline kind of
thing so as you've got everything set up now you just go ahead and shoot your video as normal so
now I'm gonna shoot exactly the same thing with both my cameras the a6000 and the 6300 so the
a6000 i'm gonna shoot at 60 frames a second and the a 6300 Aengus to 120 frames a second and then
I'm gonna show you both slowed down to show you the difference you can get between the two this is
what 60 frames a second looks like slowed down and this is 120 frames a second looks like slowed down
as you can see there's a big difference in the ability of how slow you can get it that's because
you're shooting a lot more frames per second 120 versus 60 120 frames a second will give you a lot
more flexibility to slow down a lot more when you're editing later on 60 frames a second you
can slow down from anything - like 50 to 70% of its regular speed and it still looks smooth
with 120 frames a second you can go down as low as 35% of its regular speed and it still looks
really smooth those are kind of my rules in terms of how slow I go down when it comes to editing in
post let's quickly talk about video quality - so I'm not going to go into the details as to why it
does this but you just need to know it does the more you slow down video the lesser your quality
is going to be if you're shooting in 1080 it's still gonna be 1080 it's just your quality isn't
gonna look as good and the reason for that is to do with the megabits but I said I'm not gonna bore
you with that so yeah if you're interested in that just look it up somewhere else all right
now let's go to premiere because that's what I use and we will show you how to edit so hold on to the
computer to show you how to edit in Premiere Pro let me just start by saying I know there's other
ways to do this you may know a different way there are more technical details involved with
things like frame rates importing one frame rate into a different frame rate sequence that kind of
thing I know I get it this isn't for those people this is for people that maybe have never slowed
down clips before in Premiere and they want to learn how to do it so real basic tutorial
on just how to slow it down in Premiere that's what we're doing today okay let's do it I have
my footage saved here in a folder called slow motion let's go ahead and load up Premiere Pro
all right so once it's loaded create a new project head over to where you have saved your footage in
my case on the desktop in a folder called slow motion and specify that as the place you want
to create your project this is going to load up a window there is no sequence in here already
as you can see it says drop media here to create a sequence that's exactly what we're gonna do import
the footage to the desktop slow motion and import that this is where I said there are more technical
details you can deal with when you drag a clip into here it's gonna make your sequence entirely
based off of whatever the settings are here so if this is 120 frames a second your sequence
is gonna be 120 frames a second I don't want to get into the detail of that too much that could
be another video this is basic how to slow down your footage so let's drag in two Clips one 121 60
frames a second let's do the car there that's 28 6300 so 120 frames a second and then let's do it
the same thing with the a6000 which is 60 frames a second so two ways you can slow down the footage
quickly and easily the first way right click on the clip go to speed a duration and then basically
it percentage so if you want it to be half as fast it's 50% a third as fast 30% just know that
with 120 frames a second 35% is about the limit you can go to before it starts to look a little
less smooth so let's go 40 just to be safe 40% of its regular speed there is one other way you
can change the speed let's do it on the other clip so command + R that's a shortcut using a keyboard
much quicker less clicks with 60 frames a second video you can actually slow it down to about 50%
and it still looks good so 50% so now if we look at the same shot so this is 120 frames a second
see you there crazy smooth really nice and slow let's look at the same thing on 60 frames a second
still smooth it's just not quite as slot so there you go that was quickly how to slow
down your footage in Premiere Pro once again right-click on the clip speed duration specify
the speed you wanted to go in terms of a percentage the other way command and are
and it will load up the same window and slow it down that way let's go back to the video quick
pro tip for you if you have the option available inside your camera and on some Sony's you do the
a 6300 I am shooting with I have this option 6000 they don't but I'll show you where it is you have
on your dial options for saving favorites you have a one in the - I have my option one set to
shooting at 120 frames a second and then option two at 24 frames a second but in 4k so you can
quickly swap between the two without having to go into all your menus and fiddle around
every time good pro tip so I hope I taught you something today your quick video about
slow motion how you choose slow motion what it looks like and how you did it too so if I taught
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