How To: Slow Motion - Skateboarding Cinematographer Russell Houghten - In Focus

[@CaptainMorgan32791]

i wish they still put these out every monday..

[@landenbrady8049]

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[@zechariahdonald6694]

@Landen Brady instablaster ;)

[@ride]

Thanks for your patience on new episodes everyone! We're super stoked that you like In Focus so much!. We're working on the 2013 schedule now with Mike Manzoori and will keep you posted on air dates.

[@KingSels]

Respect for this, respect for ALL cameramen around the world, without you all we wouldn't be watching these.

[@TeamFlamingStones]

Thank you so much! I haven't found anybody else explaining the gradual changes in time!

[@ThatSkaterGuyy]

That's the most helpful In Focus yet! Keep the editing videos coming!

[@JCramer420]

Finally an awesome tutorial for ramp slow mo.

[@LYCskateboardingZelve]

i love people like you:D show love for both! HD and VX all day

[@agerpic]

This is exactly what i needed to know! I love the quality of all infocus videos!!

[@ISMskateteam]

In Focus videos are the shit! love them

[@8shaky1]

Ben nordberg killin it for England!

[@Damahni]

I use Premiere as well. Shoot in 60 FPS, once your in Premiere, all you need to do is click on your clip and press Command R, or go to Edit and choose speed and duration and make it 50%. Simple. You can make it faster or slower if you want but it's important that you shoot in 60 FPS. Or else your footage won't be smooth.

[@nickmccack]

i love the vx because of the gnarly glitches

[@ThatSkaterGuyy]

For those who were as confused as me when they got to the graph part; you right click on the graph and pick "edit speed graph". Your welcome, saved you 30 minutes of research and frustration.

[@shogoluc]

for some reason Ae won't let me click and drag the grey box, what am I doing wrong?

[@hackysackett]

At the bottom, click on the little symbol two on the left from the Magnet (it's the Choose Graph Type button). Click "Edit Speed Graph" and you should be good!

[@FirstFallFilms]

About time! Only a week late!

[@davidmorefield2]

Please put up more episodes

[@romesnow08]

If you guys don't have money for the big cameras to do higher frame rates, you can use Twixtor. It creates clips in between the frames of your footage you already recorded. It basically creates super slo-mo out of regular footage. It's mostly for fun though because it does create some distortion unless the main "subject" is on a clean background. example: sky, white, wall, green screen, etc.

[@Roll4Eternity]

@RIDE CHANNEL is it more or less accurate using the graph and just a start and stop key frame and actually making the ramp rather than using the velocity approach ?

[@popcornwonk87]

Thank you!

[@Expensivestuff4]

omg thats a frickin huf jacket russel is wearin!!!!!!!!!!

[@adamturrisivideo]

@Matt Hunter, you're right...the problem isn't the cameras guys, it's the debate. Fuck it and go skating...it's the man behind the camera that matters too.

[@Asahugosk8]

So sick

[@Kreayola]

Thanks a lot!

[@45iLLusion]

do you usually do this stuff to clips before you add them into a timeline of a video? or is this just as an example?

[@KoiDigital]

badass tutorial

[@manekefa8968]

Are videos edited on a 30p 1920x1080 timeline or 720p 1280x720 timeline? Generally speaking, what is the preferred frame rate for skateboarding videos? Perhaps Ride Channel could make a tutorial on HDSLR videos for the Web: First - State the settings on the camera (Frame Rate, Shutter Speed). Second - Explain the conversion process Third - Settings on the editing program Fourth - Export Settings Timeline should comprise of: a line, a static slow-motion shot, a ramped slow-motion shot.

[@BMXerChrissy]

would you prefer a dslr or a camcorder for filming freestyle sports?

[@Steaktage]

wouldnt you want your editing timebase to be at a frame rate closer to 30 when slowing down 60p footage so that you are using the extra frames to slow the footage and not interpolating between frames? example would be i have all footage filmed at 60p. i set up a new comp in fcp or premiere (whichever you prefer) at 30p.

[@robertblackettt]

Something is wrong with this because I do what he says and it does not turn out the same whatsoever. It just shows some diagonally increasing line and when i move anything the video gets reversed. EDIT: I did not notice that the graph was automatically set to time and not speed...

[@Steaktage]

all 60p footage will play using half the frames but still at full speed until you choose to use them by slowing down the footage thus making use of the extra frames instead of slowing 60fps down more thus defeating the purpose of higher fps. am i completely misunderstanding some logic?

[@604idan]

awesome

[@mouman]

As a filmer & editor the way he is teaching how to ramp slomo the clip has 4 things that make it was longer & more complicated then it has to be, watch other tutorials on AE on how to ramp and itill save you some time.

[@dinchcrinto17]

Ben Nordberg is unreal!!!!

[@LiamWhoFilms]

Where was the in focus yesterday, it's been 2 weeks now and it's starting to become a habit, and please to a video on the editing side of thing, preferably one that explains about colour correction and curves thank you

[@PUSHINGPIXELSTV]

will we get another one next week since we didnt get one last week ? :D

[@hoffmannglh]

they should do one on how to get noticed for filming and editing in the skateboard world. and how to make it look better

[@SwagJunt]

whats the difference in this method of ramp slow mo to just editing it on the graph? it seems a lot more work this way

[@BMXfreak0123]

what kind of computer do you use? mine would no joke take about 10 minutes to do one clip like that.

[@MiLD.SkateCO]

ramp slow mo in final cut pro x takes 5 seconds to do, i love it

[@max0ates42]

What lens did you guys shoot with on those clips on the 60D?

[@ClairtySkates]

On some cameras in the menu there is a option called smiths slow record which does awsome slow motion but sacrifices audi

[@starzyniezdolni6781]

me too. did you try to drag just one keyframe?

[@omarapplesauce]

do you guys have tips for doing slow motion when recording at 30fps?

[@markus4gtown]

i hav a problem: when i click on export, it doesnt show "add to render queue".. only the other 3... can someone help me?

[@Leafonacloud]

But how do I edit slowmo with a camera phone ? Like wanna make it slow then back to regular speed

[@ftacream]

if i want to make the curve so i drag everything to the right, than the part that i drag goes to the right but it also go's up. so if i'm done with my slowmo my last part is fast forwarded. how can i fix this ?

[@risokvideos]

hi, i've got a problem, my graph in after effects looks like this shrani .si/f/3A/68/1469s0T2/after.jpg what do i do to make it look like on the video, a straight line? thank you

[@jjhaston]

If you guys are this late, the next episode better be kick ass!

[@HardiHolpus]

good!

[@kdog323]

I think it means the playback heads or the recording heads on the camera were dirty. I used to get those all the time on my old mini DV cam.

[@MatthewCoote]

yeaa nords!

[@DvizehEdits]

can u use Sony Vegas Pro 10?

[@TylerMaceyFilms96]

Make a color grading tutorial with Russell!

[@Bryant91]

After effects wont playback footage in realtime!? Any help, or can this be done in Premiere pro also?

[@kumohashira]

yeah buddy

[@canineoa.2293]

Anyone can help me!!!!!! i'm using after effects CS5 and when i turn on the time remapping effect in layer menu and add the keyframes works the same as in the tutorial. but when i change the incoming velocity to .5, it goes to 5 seconds. and the graph editor don't look like that one

[@RyanWilkinson15]

Sweet

[@Crunch_Andy]

what dose it mean when u get those green bars on vx footage????

[@enialBYoLo]

Yo can someone help me i was shooting with my canon hfs100 shooting 60 frames per second, i drag it into after effects and then a green screen flashes through the clip every half second or so. Anyone know why?

[@danpochtrager]

He's not saying don't edit in FCP. He's saying generally you edit the effects elsewhere such as AE then you can bring them back in to FCP. You have better results and more control in an application such as AE.

[@GeorgeJBskate]

do more of the SKATE series videos

[@leotownsend]

russel is one of the best out but srsly one of the longest way to remap and changed in the graph editor all his precise numbers. start in the graph and end in the graph section, way better

[@levmyshkin8366]

i used up all my snappysnaps, so now i have to draw any footage i want. it's long af, i gotta turn up like 2 hours early to draw the background

[@jakegnaw]

Already Did

[@Volume3Productions]

It would have been nice if Russel had mentioned moire and aliasing problems with dslrs when shooting 60p.

[@2JZ_Cressi]

what if i want to use slow mo to sync tricks to a beat?

[@JakeSkate306]

It took an extra week for this?

[@adesquaredd]

"Try not to overdo these slow-mos" - Ha, he saved the most important information for the very end :P There's seriously few things that annoy me more than un-neccesary slow-mo overkill.

[@tom_davies147]

most beautiful*

[@FCScooters]

were are the new episodes

[@tom_davies147]

already up a while ago

[@theninjacat898]

Is it possible to just subscribe to In Focus.

[@CSphotovideo]

which sachtler tripod?

[@HTIOGranka]

How to you get a 60D to film at 60 fps? I have a 60D but it's only goes as far as 50 fps.

[@Greerskateboards]

change it from pal to ntsc mode in the menu settings

[@MattSezer]

You probably have it set in PAL. Change it to NTSC.

[@quackapatth]

i suppose, I don't care for it i just think vx footy looks sicker. but i love me some good hd filming

[@CSphotovideo]

Which sachtler head is that

[@omarpx23]

Is 50p good?

[@tice_images]

"That's awesome love this camera" Oh the condescending in his voice.

[@sendlove]

You can do a ramped slow mo in After effects way quicker too...I don't know why he did this in such a long way...

[@blainefairchild]

wow. hating on skateboard filmers when he is one. good guy!

[@sk8typek]

is that possible in sony vegas?

[@pmdanielofficial]

Of course it is. Just search for "Ramped SlowMo Sony Vegas" on YT and you'll find what you're searching for.

[@Jellypo123]

Sony vegas or Final cut? Btw i am a mac user

[@williamholloway2747]

Sony vegas

[@SuicideSkating]

Sony vegas on a mac? Nah dude. wont be able to run it Use premier and After effects or even Final Cut. but you want this ramped slo mo so use after effects. Premier can do it too but not with audio i believe

[@polobubblevest]

damn that vx footy was raw as fuck

[@Fikrabhinaya]

for the vegas pro please

[@LykkePilleMedia]

Pretty Sweet is edited on Final Cut

[@delcarpio96]

you need to change from PAL to NTC to can shoot at 60fps

[@ThatSkaterGuyy]

HE didn't need to because he's done it before. My settings and possibly other people's settings was on auto select graph and it selected the wrong graph. Just trying to help people who had the same problem; obviously yours worked correctly though...

[@CaP17A]

Russell Houghten should have done a tutorial for the incredible time lapse masking he did in Open Horizon.

[@RustyCanadien]

open your eyes right under the home key and above the up arrow key ...

[@Planabcd]

What about vegas pro?

[@tmoney0212]

they needa make a skate video with all slowmotion parts

[@GillesA99]

the curvy guy isn't there on my after effects??

[@SuppiT1]

@Cody McDonald that were bgspin flips

[@xRantsReviewsx]

Yea there is an easier way, but the way he does it gives you total control on your ramped slow mo

[@skatertwig26]

Never did it this way, very easy!!! But when I go to the graph I do not have the curves. It still looks great without it.

[@appleshampoo324]

+skatertwig26 Look in the comments. The dude in the video commented: 'At the bottom, click on the little symbol two on the left from the Magnet (it's the Choose Graph Type button). Click "Edit Speed Graph" and you should be good!' I was stuck on this too.

[@skatertwig26]

***** Okay, cool thank you!!!

[@suttlemedia715]

+RF BRCK Nice one i was super stuck aha

[@starzyniezdolni6781]

click COMPOSITION>ADD TO RENDER QUEUE

[@dontgetittwisteddockclock]

he should do a time lapse tutorial

[@mitchn12345]

@blankbrian hook it up with the secrets then, man!

[@BeastoftheEastPh]

"N" for end.. for the render preview bar..