How slow motion works
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- Опубликовано: 22 июл 2020
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Slow motion is a key part of modern visual culture, from iPhone selfies to movies. So how does it work?
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores how slow motion works and how it became a part of movie history. It’s a history that starts at the very beginning of photography, when pioneers like Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge discovered that capturing images required capturing motion, too.
Slow motion was key in the silent film days, in which camera operators would overcrank their cameras (slowing down footage) or undercrank (speeding it up). These experiments could range from goofy to dreamy. Soon after the addition of sound, Hollywood embraced a standard speed for movies - and slow motion became an even more important tool.
As the video shows, it showed up in sports reels, movie musicals, and artsy French dramas. And before long, it was part of the action movie landscape too, from Seven Samurai to Bonnie and Clyde.
Today, we take for granted that slow motion is one of the available tools to moviemakers, whether they’re working on an iPhone or a Hollywood set. And it probably won’t stop anytime soon.
Further reading
This issue of American Cinematographer is a time capsule look at the adoption of the key sound film technology used in early movies, Vitaphone.
archive.org/details/americanc...
Most academic writing that touches on slow-mo focuses on individual filmmakers, like this essay by scholar Ludovic Cortade.
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt46n...
Finally, if you really want to nerd out on film history, this is a copy of the Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers, in which they started developing a frame rate standard and discussed synchronization of sound and film.
archive.org/details/transacti...
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It's always strange to see people having fun over a century ago. Makes me wonder what people will think of our videos a hundred years from now.
They will look through a TikTok archive and will be like WUT
documentaries..
Make sure you look up "flagpole sitting." What a hoot.
Especially our only fans videos
we like slow mod... but not 100% aslow..
They didn't talk about how they moved the camera in slow motion for The Matrix. To move the camera as fast as you see in the movie while filming in slow motion, the camera would have to move impossibly fast. To make the shots possible they actually used more than 30 cameras at once. Each camera was in charge of taking one photo.
Because of this method, there is significantly less blur in each frame, which contributes to the sharp, manufactured style that to movie uses to represent the matrix simulation.
I believe they only used multi-cam setups in the sequences where Neo is dodging bullets or where he and Agent Smith ram into each other up in the air. They didn't use multicams for the lobby scene extracts, shown in this video.
@@Toppu They also used the multi-cam setup for Trinity's jump-kick at the beginning.
This is just amazing stuff. One could think is as easy as have a camera, smash some audio and done, but then there is all this terms that makes so huge difference in image quality and people engineering and combining techniques.
I seen the analysis in vfx geek crew ( I don't know name clearly).
I think you too
The multi-camera setup is usually referred to as Bullet time instead of slow motion.
Slow motion gives us the few moments which enables us to cherish and appreciate the beauty of every single shot that would normally go unnoticed.
I couldn't have said it better myself!
Y'all just the editing alone is already something that's good about these videos
Can't believe the matrix was released over 20 years ago.
Same
I remember seeing it in cinema.
Ah! When going to cinema was a thing..! :)
Still my favorite movie. The phones (mobile, hardline and phone booths) are dated, but the concept is timeless.
(for now)
I know that's way too new
Neo dodging bullets is quintessential slow motion..
r a d i o h e a d b e a r p f p o w o
Slow motion changed movies by making them slower, I believe.
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Big if true
noooooooo...... I never thought of that, you're a genius!
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*explosion.mp3*
Huh? The reason that Matrix scene is so good is BECAUSE it's cut with real time clips.
this.. It is also good because it is from just before the time movies started to be made from the point of VFX and not the other way around... There wasn't much VFX in the lobby scene, while there were plenty in The Matrix.
Yet it's known as the "best slo-mo scene ever made", which is the point being made: slo-mo is memorable
Raycon really throwing money at everyone hey
They should be throwing money at making an actually good product instead.
dude ikr they're literally sponsoring everyone 😂
rocke99582 they do make an actually good product lol obviously they don’t have the w1 chip or the equivalent for android yo pop up like the airpods or beats do but they’re much cheaper and no brand has that besides those two
@@timothy6769 they're repackaged Chinese products you can buy directly (without the raycon branding) for a fraction of the price at aliexpress. There are lots of videos about this.
@@timothy6769 Yeah, I've seen some reviews and they're not bad, but like walmart has these jlab ones for 30 bucks that sound just as good according to the reviewers.
The lack of an interview with Gavin Free is disappointing, but still an interesting video
They even showed one of his scenes, if I remember correctly he worked on the slowmo in Sherlock Holmes, shown at 7:25
"How slow motion works?"
Me: *it's a motion, but slow*
It's not just slow motion, but the sound is equally important. It can enhances the feeling :)
“Tilt” up... ;) ... Pan is for left and right. Comes from panorama ;)
4:30 Confusion about playback and film speed was over?
*Cries in 23.976*
PAL speedup :(
This is another thoroughly engaging informative video with wonderful nuances added to it.
I remember your video on Dazzle Camoflauge being just as engaging to me.
From a fellow photographer: well done
Vox. You need to keep pumping these videos out. We wait so long! FEED THE ALGORITHM
Was expecting to see Gavin Free when they showed the Sherlock footage.
I cant see "phantom" and not think of 'im at this point
I hope it's not a coincidence that he picked out that scene. These guys do _a lot_ of research.
The real Gavin Free is in Achievement Hunter, the Slo Mo Gavin is all an act.
This was why the reason I chose it!
Nobody:
Not a single soul:
The first names of the majority of the film makers: *jEaN*
To get the fullest out of the video watch at. 5 speed
this is the most genius comment ever
@@jim6433 thank you
Slow motion... _in slow motion._
Vox trying to explain the first hurdle of photography AND videography in one video. Touché
Wonderful storytelling in this one. Thank you!
I once went to a showing of Nosferatu and it's really interesting how back then movies had a distinct, stop motion quality to them.
Great and interesting video. I thought it would segway into how sound design/editing also catapulted how slow motion changed storytelling in movies. You kind of touch upon it in the demonstrations. I would love to see a video about the development of sound design maybe like a followup to this one. Anyway I truly enjoy the impressive quality and expression of your work here in everything from thorough research, graphics/animations and editing to high educational value. Thank you :-)
If you have a 60 fps (or more) footage and Adobe Premiere Pro, before you put it into timeline, in the project window right click on the footage > interpret footage > set the movie standard fps (23,976 or 24.00). So from 60 fps it will slow down to 24 fps. Then put it into your 24 fps timeline
In FCP I would have to slow the clip down by 40%. Otherwise I’d either lose frames or get some frames doubled and some not.
*see u all in 6 years when this gets recommended again.*
But this was just uploaded today, most viewers are subscribers
Suprab Rajbhandari yeah but it’s gonna get recommended to us in a while lol
@@suprabrajbhandari548 I'm talking about RUclips's algorithm. They always seem to recommend highly veiwed videos years after they've uploaded.
Waiting for it
see u all in 6 years when these types of comments are overused but still used
Bravo Phil, immaculately explained as usual. And I would totally have bought the line about a pro juggler without the reveal! 😂
Fully expected Gavin from Slow Mo Guys to be in this as a source - I mean he filmed the slow mo scene at the end of the video from that Sherlock film
Also, for Top Gear as well (during the Clarkson, Hammond and May era) and other works.
Yeah, slow motion's awesome, but not for the character who gets stuck in a painful moment for all to enjoy!
Thanks Vox. I actually needed this.
Thank you for making this video
i love the videos made by this guy
Great job on this video!
Love these so much
This was, yet again, such a good video! 👍❤
Vox: how slow motion changed movies.
Max Payne Games: Are you challenging me?!
Yeah the Max Payne series is awesome
Well done! Nicely researched and presented.
Keanu Reeves helped The Matrix to be more breathtaking
wow 2 weeks without Vox .. what have I missed !
Phil! I’m loving the ‘stache. Looking good, boy!
I understood all of the motion picture: why early movies move quickly, the mechanism of motion pictures, and how slow-motion works.
The research you have to do, thank you
The ballpark box office at 4:43 is League Park in Cleveland, and the brick portion shown still stands today! (Random unrelated trivia from a native Clevelander).
And this us why I love Vox..
This guy should be the host for all Vox videos.
Phil's definitely gettin that Covid casual look in these work from home days!
This is the vibe I'm going for: ruclips.net/video/LXL5_tc8UyY/видео.html
The background music is very good!
Those very well done.
The advert at the end and was a bit creepy though, it was like a product endorsement more than an ad.
That was a pretty decent technical explanation of slow motion, and your choice of camera is fantastic: Sony A7M3 😬
wow ya'll are really doing creative work, boundary pushing content
That ending was kind of beautiful
Thanks. vox for bringing this.vidoe
Yo!!! Thanks for this video!
The best slow mo scene is the lobby scene. The most iconic slow mo scene is the dodging bullets. Both from the same movie.
I really like the German word Zeitlupe
[literally: time-magnifying glass]
great video!
Well very fitting video for 2020 as we are all living in Slo Mo now
Very nice explanation and history lesson. I wish you would add a bit info about artificial fps doubling using neural networks like the famous DAIN app.
Good one, Phil. The commercial at the end was kinda long, though.
“Bad juggling becomes a story of time and light.” Self referential punch line :) I like video.
"it's like a Wes Anderson epilogue" is my new favorite sentence.
Brian de Palma's version of Eisenstein's staircase scene in the Untouchables is also great.
The real reason why that Matrix scene is so good is because Keanu Reeves was in it
This was so interesting
Phil Edwards rocking a real dad 'stache these days. 👍👍
Also. Cheeky feature of a Sony E mount there 👌👌👌
Nitpicky here; when explaining the faster shutterspeed needed for a higher frame rate. You mention two out of three ways to compensate, ISO and Increase light but forgot opening up the Aperture helps too. But for those ridiculous 1000fps videos, it's mostly light lots and lots of light used so much so operators need eye protection.
AWESOME !!!!
"A struggle of time and light...Raycons last for 6 hours!"
I was so waiting on the section about phantom cameras.
How the vox is able to make awesome video essays with obvious things is beyond me....
I Was Waiting For Some New Content And Then
7:03 "Notice that noise? That's the phone compensating for less light, by making the sensor more sensitive, raising the ISO." I didn't know the phone was making those noises.
That Matrix Scene is very iconic up to this date
7:51 Zlatan Ibrahimovic XD
Great video
Awesome video, is cool
Just watched the matrix trilogy so this was great timing
Same
Welcome back vox
The matrix wouldn’t really be the matrix without the slow motion and the panorama view. Simple things just change everything so drastically.
Good stuff
We now need a followup on the use of downward frequency sweeps at the start of slow motion transitions.
Wow so this is how popular vox is when you are early!
Why is nobody mentioning the slowmo scene from "300" ?!
that was a unique one as well!
Noice! How about a video about the ubiquitous "depth of field" that (AFAIK) Orson Welles introduced in Citizen Kane and now is everywhere?
Finally Vox you are now a real RUclips channel...cause...you're ain't a RUclips channel if you don't have slow motion B-rolls right??
Woah I've never been this early on this channel. So, this is what it feels like huh?
So you're telling me VOX did an entire video about slow motion without inviting the Slow-Mo guys to it?
You mention, I think, motion burr near the beginning of that video, then never explain what is done about it when producing slow motion.
To get a smooth replay, it is the recording that must be speed up. Less light per frame means reduced resolution.
Specialized high speed camera may help. But what is done about motion blur?
Just a reminder: our brain analyze the direction and speed an object move relative to a fixed background by finding the most blurry edge for direction and the thickness of the blur as estimation of speed.
Old 2d video games don't bother to create blur, so objects appear to slide artificially instead of feeling like moving inside a real scene.
That famous Babe Ruth clip always strikes me: he missed big-time. Caught it closer to the handle rather than out on the sweet spot. You can see him react to getting jammed, plus the trajectory off the bat suggests a pop-up, probably foul to left.
Sometimes when i see unfortunate events like falling glass, or feeling dejavu, i see it in slow motion mode
Also slow motion play important role for over-dramatic scene, dont forget the lightning strikes effect
8:20 Why is Raycon flexing with 6 hour battery life? My JBL for the same price easily double that 😂
You made me look up JBL earbuds. Unfortunately they have a million models. Can you recommend yours and which ones are yours?
Missed an opportunity to have the video displayed in 60FPS
i legit laughed to hard at the juggling gag
It also makes a great RUclips channel. Shout out to the SlowMo Guys!
I would have called this the history of slow mo... I didn't see much content reflecting the title.
But as always good engaging video.
7:16 one of the slo mo guys actually worked on this
There's programs that can make slow motion out of standard speed. Would be cool to explain how that software works
Am I the only one who immediatley changed the speed on this video to play it faster? :D
This video really should've been uploaded at 1080p 60fps