Looking for slow motion for program for avi and mpeg files

[method]

Hi all . I am looking for small good tool to produce good quality slow motion clip out of avi or mpeg file.I know adobe premier can do it but not a smooth one!!

[guns1inger]

Retimer - google it

[redwudz]

This is not authoring. Moving you.

[TBoneit]

guns1inger: Whoa, I just looked at the price, ouch!
I was seeing price in the hundreds.

is there anything for free maybe a plug-in for vdub?

Thanks

[TBoneit]

So far I did find that Windows Movie maker has a stackable slo-mo video effects filter

What I mean is it slows down by half, but in testing if I add the sane effect again then it runs slower and if I add it again it runs still slower. More testing needed and probably not as good as pro software but more my price.

Cheers

[guns1inger]

If you want professional, high quality slow motion, you pay for it. Otherwise, just change the frame rate in Vdub and be done with it.

[TBoneit]

For a once in a blue moon thing I do not want to pay for it, I'm not rich enough to pay hundreds of dollars for a "Gee that'd be a nice thing to do" once or twice a year.

I wonder if changing the fram rate in vdub gives better results than windows movie maker? Either way it seems like the video would have to be split up to avoid audio sync problems.?

[daamon]

Good slow motion (as seen in the movies) is produced by shooting the footage with a very fast framerate - in the order of a few hundred frames per second, or more, compared to 25fps (PAL).

This footage is then played back at 25fps achieving the crystal clear slo-mo we're used to seeing.

If you've got a standard fps cam (i.e. 25 for Pal etc.) then, as already stated, you either pay for good software or suffer the results.

If you do find anything effective, please report back.

Good luck.

[TBoneit]

I'm thinking the slo-mo in WMM is good enough for me. It doesn't produce worse results than a VHS or PVR/DVR Slo-mo playback and I lived with that for many years. I know it can't produce slo-mo quality like movies where they shoot a high frame rate and then play it back slow or the same quality as the dedicated hardware used at sporting events. OTOH it does match my budget. I will keep my eyes peeled for free high quality software that can take previous and next frames and create a decent inter frame, IE frame 1 and frame 2 and create a frame 1.5. Is that what the professional s/w does?

Cheers