Slumdog Millionaire flashback effect

[Stephen Pruitt]

Hi all. . .

I just watched "Slumdog Millionaire" again last night and decided that "jerky" flashback effect they used in that film would be perfect for the flashbacks in our new film.

We're in post now, and the footie was shot 23.976 so I can't undo any of that. Is that a post treatment that is relatively easy to do?

I'm editing in Premiere Pro CS5.5, shot on RED One MX at 4K.

Thanks much.

Stephen

 

[Drew Baird]

Can you find an example of the effect online? I don't own the movie but may be able to help.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Footie?

If it's a stutter cut or something like that, you can do that with Filters in Final Cut Pro or After Effects:

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/8/1147035

http://forums.creativecow.net/thread/2/1009691

 

[Drew Baird]

If you are talking about the low frame rate effect we see in the trailer maybe you can try dropping your clips into a 3-10 (I would imagine somewhere around 6fps) fps timeline in Permiere, and if Premiere won't do it you can probably pull it off in After Effects. I don't have my computer in front of me or I would test it out. You'll more than likely need a to pre comp it but I didn't see any frame blending so that should keep the process behind the effect straightforward.

 

[David Mullen ASC]

If you had already shot at 24 fps, to create the effect of shooting at something like 6 fps, which would give each frame a shutter time of 1/12th of a second -- so a lot of blur but a steppy motion from the low sampling rate -- you'd have to drop frames and then stretch the remaining frames back up to 24 fps, and create motion blur in post. Not sure what the exact post technique would be.

 

[Stephen Pruitt]

Thanks very much for your help, gentlemen. I'll try a couple of things and see what happens! The problem now is that my timeline is locked to the music, so whatever I do, I'll have to keep it the same length.

I tried something in Premiere where I cut every shot frame by frame and then doubled some, and removed others to make the time come out the same. It looks very much like that effect, but boy is it ever time consuming!

Stephen

 

[Kemalettin Sert]

They shot that scene with Canon 1Dmk3-4 something like that on burst photo mode.

 

[Hrvoje Simic]

Thanks very much for your help, gentlemen. I'll try a couple of things and see what happens! The problem now is that my timeline is locked to the music, so whatever I do, I'll have to keep it the same length.

I tried something in Premiere where I cut every shot frame by frame and then doubled some, and removed others to make the time come out the same. It looks very much like that effect, but boy is it ever time consuming!

Stephen

You can shorten that process by exporting an image sequence and importing it back on the timeline. Create a 1 sec or a 3 frame matte as a visual temporal reference on the timelime, multiply it across the whole sequence you wish to edit, put it on a track under the sequence then simply pluck out every 3rd frame based on visual markers from mattes below (selecting each third frame then moving all selected on a separate track), select that whole 6fps image sequence and extend frames across those 2 missing frames. Less tasking route.
You will need to compensate for the shutter as David suggested though.