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Slowing down a shot in After Effects

Slowing down a shot in After Effects - After Effects Tutorial

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Slowing down a shot in After Effects

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- If your goal is slow motion there's a handful of ways to pull it off. You could choose to shoot it the correct way with a higher frame rate and then interpret it differently. Or you can rely upon after effects to try to stretch the footage and slow it down. The in-camera method is always best but After Effects can be combined with it for even better results. Let's take a look here at that over crank method. Here, you'll see that we have a 60 frame per second clip. When we play it back at normal speed everything looks to be standard motion. He takes a drink of water. However, I see that this is a 60 frame clip. I also have this clip as a 30 frame clip. Let's go with the 60 here fora moment and interpret the footage. I'll choose Main. And I'll conform to a new frame rate. In this case, 2997. And when I click okay, the footage is effectively going to be doubled. Now the duration is twice as long. If we take a look…

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