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Orcavue Can Bullet Time Your Camera!

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On the eve of March 31, 1999 the world was exposed to a new type of visual effect thanks to the release of a movie that changed and influenced movies for the next decade. The Bullet Time effect as it came to be known created a sense of slow motion combined with orbiting camera motion that let you for the first time move away from the constraints of a stationary or dolly only camera move.

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HOW TO ELIMINATE FLICKER IN SLOW MOTION VIDEO PART 4!

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In previous parts of this article we saw three methods to combat flicker in some form or another; in this part we will look at what may be the most advanced Flicker Removal tool available since the inception of software.

Flicker Free by Digital Anarchy is a plugin for “Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere and Final Cut Pro 7 & X, Avid Media Composer and Da Vinci Resolve” Mac and Windows that eliminates most any kind of flicker with ease. → Continue Reading Full Post ←

GH4 firmware update 2.1 – No Slowmo Improvements!

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Today Panasonic has released the GH4 Firmware v2.1.  It is mainly a usability/performance and external recorder update. No slow motion bit rate or frame rate improvements on this release. We analyzed a before and after on the files and detected no change in data.  However recorded 4k footage has performance improvements.  It is good to see that the camera continues to be updated by Panasonic and adding features filmmakers care about.

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How to Eliminate Flicker In Slow Motion Video Part 2!

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Continuing with the free ways to combat flicker in timelapse, slow motion video and regular video we now turn to Virtual Dub and the Deflicker Filter for the app created by Donald Graft.

Virtual Dub is a GNU Public License distributed application for Windows in 32bit and 64bit versions.  The Deflicker plugin only works in 32bit mode so stay with the Virtual Dub distribution in 32 bit only. → Continue Reading Full Post ←

How To Eliminate Flicker in Slow Motion Video Part 1!

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Flicker is the “F” word of the slow motion video world.  It can ruin shots or make them distracting enough to fail in conveying the message to the viewer.  It is hard to detect while recording and even with tools to minimize it on set it can still show up later as faint throbbing light.

There are however a few solutions that can take care of the flicker of a vast majority of affected shots after the recording has been made. There is no do it all Swiss army knife for fixing flicker on a shot; no real 100% foolproof plugin or method to get rid of it exists. However a few solutions come very close and that means great news for people on an inexpensive light budget. → Continue Reading Full Post ←