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How do I get slow-motion footage?

How do I get slow-motion footage?

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How do I get slow-motion footage?

Rich: Hi, my name is Rich Harrington. Robbie: And I'm Robbie Carmen. Rich: And welcome to this week's episode. We are talking all about slow motion. Now Rob, where do you see slow motion used a lot? Robbie: everywhere? Rich: Yeah, that's a pretty popular technique, music videos, right? Robbie: Yeah, music videos you know, that sort of traditional B-roll montage kind of look. You know, nice cityscapes nature, that kind of stuff. It's a really cool effect and the issue with it is that of course you can do it in post production. You can select a clip that's full speed and slow it down, but that technique doesn't really have the kind of organic feel of an in-camera slow motion. Rich: Yeah, what's going to happen is you're going to see a lot of blurring or stuttering and it just doesn't look very good. But fortunately, our DSLRs actually can shoot at higher frame rates, right? Robbie: Right, and that's the exact idea, Rich. Is that what we're going to do is we're going to shoot at a higher…

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