Using camera's shutter speed options

[ShBm]

I'm going to make a film with both slow motion, and a "fast motion" effect. My camera has 1/60 and 1/1,000 as the highest and lowest shutter speeds. Will using those improve my ability to alter the speed of the footage (which will mostly bedone in post)? I've heard of this, but I don't know if these are low/high enough, and I'm not sure which speed to use for slow and which for fast.

[daamon]

Hi ShBm,

I too have a cam where the shutter speed can be changed, and I too wondered if I'd be able to shoot normal speed events with a high shutter speed and hence, on playback, effect a slow motion look.

My experiments, however, revealed that the cam still recorded in 25fps (I've got a PAL cam) - meaning that the shutter speed seems to have no effect on the framerate that the cam records at.

The only thing I could conclude was that the shutter speed controls how much light comes in - a faster shutter speed for brighter conditions.

[pijetro]

Your shutter speed won't get you the final outcome you're looking for...
All it will do is allow for clearer "frame to frame" motion with fast moving objects..But if you use a slow shutter speed, then images tend to look blurry...
I don't know how much you know about cameras or post editing, so i'll just suggest to stay in auto exposure mode, and pick the settings that you're working with (ie dark,spotlight,outside,snow conditions, etc...).

On the good side, most advanced NLE's allow for slowing and speeding up footage, and do a good job of it. Just make sure your footage is clean to begin with..