Hi-speed shooting?

[maxxDV]

You know, the bullet going through the apple, the water drop falling into the water, etc... Other than spending tens of thousands of dollars of high speed cameras is there ANY way of capturing high frame rate video?

[SingSing]

A very bright strobe light, and set your exposure time to as low as your camera can.

[maxxDV]

well most cameras don't list shutter speeds as FPS, is there a chart or some other reference material to let me know how many FPS a certain setting will be? thanks.

[igor_video]

have you tried deinterlacing a 30fps dv-avi into 60fps and then using free fancy plugins to slow down the video? Just create a text file (e.g. with a text editor like notepad) with the following content:

AVISource("Yourmovie.avi")
separatefields

Be sure to install AVIsynth beforehand though. Check out some examples near the bottom of the page http://www.100fps.com/

[Steve Stepoway]

NTSC video is always 30 FPS (well, 29.97 approximately), and PAL is always 25FPS. Shutter speed doesn't change that.

Steve

[maxxDV]

so nobody has figured out how to really do high FPS stuff on a budget?

[igor_video]

Check out some examples near the bottom of the page http://www.100fps.com/

[liquid217]

If you use a fairly high shutter speed, you can probably get good results with this avisynth function.

https://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?p=1533994#1533994

[maxxDV]

ok well even though NTSC DV is shooting at 29.97fps and that cannot be changed changing the shutter speed should allow you to record fast moving people/objects with little to no blur, therefore helping the post production slowmo software to actually make something you can see. so even if you're going to be doing post production slow motion you should still film with a high shutter speed, correct?

[liquid217]

The idea behind the use of mvtools and I would assume any other slow motion software like dynapel is that it will track the motion of the object and create generated frames that estimate where the object would be. If you camera has a fairly high shutter rate, that should minimize any blurring or ghosting, compared to a camera with a longer exposure time.
As igor mentioned also, if you choose to use one of these software packages to make it appear slower, you should deinterlace that material.

[maxxDV]

yeah I know all about deinterlacing. at first I was considering using one of the cameras from the studio I work at, but upon closer inspection I can save myself the trouble and risk of using a camera that doesn't belong to me, since my little Sony HC20 miniDV cam has an adjustable shutter setting.

So here's what I'm going to try for some really nice slowmo stuff:
*film at high noon, bright light
*film at high shutter speed to reduce motion blurring
*import and de-interlace footage
*try one of the "slowmo" plugins/filters discussed

I'll try to remember to post an example of how it came out once it's done. Thanks guys.