Slow mode without a computer

You need to shoot at a faster frame rate than you'll be playing it back at to slow down the motion.

You may be able to get a lab to print several frames for each one on the original ffotage. This is mechanical, misses some motion increments and blurring, and thus is limited in what you can do without it looking bad.

In the heyday of super 8mm film making, we would load a really fresh set of batteries into the camera to get the motor to run fast and create a mild slow motion effect.

If your original footage is shot on tape and you're going to be crash editing, you can run a good playback deck in slow motion mode with the recording deck at regular speed.

I remember when in college I bought a cheesy video effects box from some cheesy catalogue like damark. It helped with fades and transition and some cheesaholic effects. One was called... can't remember, but what it did was create a strobeing effect like when you go to a dance club or something. Action seems to come at a slower rate because you see less of it. Kind of like blacking out every 6 frames out of 12 so you're only getting half the information in the same amount of time. It doesn't look like slow motion out of john woo... in fact it looks more like a 45 degree shutter a-la Gladiator or Saving Private Ryan and such. But it is a doable cheap stylistic effect on video. I believe I might still have that cheesy effects box.

Otherwise spinning the jog shuttle on a good 4 head VCR can give a copy of slo-mo to edit from. (I used to teach a course on editing with a small budget before digital stuff got affrodable)

I still have decks with pretty clean jog shuttles if you want to send me a short clip to slo down email me.

ADOMizer@aol.com.

Of course it will be a copy and going three generations on VHS can get hairy.

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