12fps time base on the Red Epic?

[aemilia scott]

Hi everyone,

I'm going for a sort of smeary, about-to-pass-out kind of thing of shooting 12fps for a playback timebase of 12fps with a 360 shutter angle. I can't seem to get the epic to go lower than 23.98. Am I missing something?

My apologies if this is an incredibly simple question.

Cheers,
Aemilia

 

[Phil Holland]

Press and hold the FPS on the touch screen and you can manually dial in any number you'd like.

 

[aemilia scott]

I've already shot the footage now, and had it at 23.98 timebase. Is there a way to change the timebase of a clip manually? Either in RedCineX or Premiere CS6?

Thanks! I appreciate the reply.

Cheers,
aemilia

 

[Shaun Cammack]

Well, I don't know that you can do it in RedCine-X, but in Premiere, I would see how it comes in. More than likely, it's playing twice as fast as you expect it to, right? If you go to the bin where the clip is, right-click on the clip, go to Modify-->Interpret footage, you should have the option of changing the frame rate to whatever you want. If you changed it to 12, you should be at real-time, if played back on a 23.98 timeline. At least this is how I would approach it.

 

[Steven James Eaton]

I've already shot the footage now, and had it at 23.98 timebase. Is there a way to change the timebase of a clip manually? Either in RedCineX or Premiere CS6?

Thanks! I appreciate the reply.

Cheers,
aemilia

You could cut the frames in half in your edit, render at nearly 12FPS, then Twixtor or Kronos up the motion blur, then double frame it if you are going for that Ridley Scott kind of Gladiator thing.

 

[Costelloe Michael]

Guys,

Gotta love reduser at times. Aemelia, I've been doing this for a few years and didn't know you could manually enter the timebase. Got to try this today! Great question and thanks for sharing you guys.

 

[aemilia scott]

Haha! Well, I'm glad at least it wasn't a completely dumb question.

In Adobe Premiere, I found a way to change the timebase for a clip. Right clicking on it and selecting Modify... Interpret Footage. There you can select a new timebase. I dropped it into a sequence, opted to have it change the sequence to the clip's settings, and then rendered out a 23.98 version of that. Nice and smeary-trippy... kind of like the hotel registration scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.