RED DSMC2 - Slow Shutter Effect

[Phil Glowskey]

Hi, I would like to get a "slow shutter" effect on my RED, as in the video below. However, the shutter settings I have are only 360 degrees at 25 frames
here examples:
https://youtu.be/NX0H4G1Ug1M

Thanks!

 

[Phil Holland]

What you are not seeing in that video is that is impacting the frame "automagically". There is no automagical happenings on digital cinema cameras, you need to be rather deliberate.

What you want to do is go to 12fps or 18fps and likely give 360 shutter a stab, then slowdown your playback in your 25fps so it's playing at that fps for that slight staccato effect. You can try 4fps or whatever if you need to go extreme.

Must be something in the air due to a video or something that came out recently. I've had Arri, Sony, and RED shooters all ask about this.

Shutter tops out at 1 second on DSMC2.

 

[Phil Glowskey]

Thanks PHIL for the quick reply. By the way, I thought to write to you in a private message with this question ... I entered the forum and saw a professional response from you! This is what I thought to do later in the post production 'slow motion' of this material that is recorded 'like timelapse' I also noticed that more and more people want to achieve such an effect - once, 20+ years ago, such an effect was used quite often in music videos. I will try to record as you wrote and then release it in Adobe Premiere and let me know! Thanks Phil, you are the champion!

 

[Alex Lubensky]

As Phil mentioned, it's not only a wide-open shutter, but also a slower frame-rate. In the example you've mentioned it's about 4-6fps with 360 deg. shutter. I find 8-12fps much more fluid - it doesn't look so stop-motion like.

Also, as Phil has already mentioned, Project frame rate is still 24\25\30fps, and you'll have to slow down your footage in post in order to playback as you've seen it while recording. 12fps is 50% slowdown for 24fps project etc.

Below is the example of 9fps still from Music Video with 360 shutter:

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[Alex Lubensky]

Also, what you can do - is set frame averaging to something like 4 frames. It'll give even more motion blur while maintaining fps (on the fps it'll show something weird like 1.63 fps, but your actual fps won't change - if it was 8fps, it'll stay the same, but each frame will include motion blur from 2 previous and 2 next if set to average 4).