Slow Motion Quality in MSP8

[Ted222]

How good is the quality of the Slow Motion in MSP8, and what are the available parameters to adjust it?

thanks,

Ted

[Dr Mordrid]

MSP8 Speed control:



As shown it can handle fixed, fit to duration and variable keyframed speed changes.

MSP8 example (2.5 mb WMV8):

http://digitalvideo.8m.net/msp8/varispeed.wmv

As noted in the image the clip starts out at 20% then ramps to 50, 100, 500 and 1000.

The limiting factor in MSP8's speed control is that it doesn't do frame interpolation to smooth the result and replace dropped frames, but then hardly any editors do. This is the perview of programs like DynaPel's MotionPerfect, Boris or AE. I use MotionPerfect quite a bit;

http://www.dynapel.com/index.shtml

Dr. Mordrid

[Brian Ellis]

The Speed control works best (smoothest action) with integer multiples and divisors of 100, I find.

[Dr Mordrid]

As do I with high speed playback. I also don't use any editors speed control to do less than 50%. Oddball values or those where a very smooth slowmo are required get the MotionPerfect treatment. It's also very useful for sequences where frame drops are an otherwise unresolvable issue.

Dr. Mordrid

[Ted222]

Well, thanks for all the info guys. Guess this means I won't do much Slow Motion with MSP.

Ted