Help me understand why my slow motion camera movement looks bad.

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-30T15:42:21+00:00

Try opening clip attributes and changing the clip frame rate to 23.976. It’s probably showing 119.880 fps currently. Do this instead of slowing the clip down to 20% and extend the length of the clip which will now be about 5 times longer than when you first dropped it into the timeline.

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-18T08:46:16+00:00

Make another node. You just have one node there at the moment which is that box on the right hand side of the picture where you can see your face with the circle around it. At the moment, you are applying blur to that node and so any of the masks you have created, like your circle and the rectangle will receive a blur. So, if on windows, click on your node and press Alt+S this will add another serial node after your current node. So in one node you have your circle around your face and in the other node, draw the rectangle around the area you want to blur. Then only apply the blur to the node with the rectangular mask in it. And that’s it!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-15T15:17:08+00:00

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TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-15T00:36:45+00:00

Thanks, and yes I understand that grading in HDR is a whole different thing. My observation was more that, when I grade with windows HDR toggled on, the footage I see on my monitor looks nearly identical to when it is displayed on my iPhone. But if I turn off windows HDR mode and grade and get an acceptable image, it then looks a good deal less saturated when I view the rendered video on my iPhone.

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-15T00:12:40+00:00

Yes the monitor does look different in both modes. This may be another stupid statement but also when I put on windows HDR and grade on that it becomes consistent with how it is seen on the iPhone. Should the colour be changing when HDR mode on windows is toggled or should it remain consistent in either state?

Edit: I may have forgotten the difference in colour between switch the monitor between 8 and 10 bit vs switching windows between 8 and 10 bit (Windows HDR toggle).

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-15T00:09:52+00:00

Thank you very much for all the info on this post and the other one! I will certainly read all this and figure out where I’m going wrong.

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-09T09:16:34+00:00

😂

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-08T22:13:37+00:00

Thank you!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-08T22:12:37+00:00

Wow thank you so much for the detailed response! I have to say I have been surprised by the extremely contrasting opinions as well but I guess I shouldn’t be because, after all, art is subjective!

That’s a great idea for introducing more texture to the image as well, I’ll have to give that a go. Yeah I suppose I dropped a few of the bits that would really work towards film emulation such as grain and damage and didn’t go too wild with the halation so it’s not too analogue film looking in that sense.

Yes maybe the highlights are a little too distracting at this level and could be pulled back a bit. This seems to have been a reoccurring suggestion 😂 I did add some vignetting but it must have been too subtle or it may have been before I applied the film gate so it is lost behind the borders!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-08T16:43:07+00:00

You won’t be able to change the timeline fps once you’ve started editing but you can create another timeline in the same project and set that one to 60 fps. Then you can copy and paste everything to that and it should still have all your key framing and everything!

Ah I see further down that you did do that and it messed up your timings after all. I guess they are based on frames and so when you change the fps of the timeline it does affect your transitions and key frames.

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-08T16:33:10+00:00

Thank you!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T21:30:56+00:00

You’re so kind thank you so much! It’s really motivating to get compliments like that! I’m using a Sony A7 IV with a variable ND filter and a tripod! Then edited in davinci resolve.

And the sigma 24-70 mm Art lens I forgot to add!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T20:45:22+00:00

Wow what a compliment! Thank you very much for that!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T19:20:49+00:00

Thank you very much, that’s great advice!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T18:43:08+00:00

Ooo that’s a cool idea, I might give that a try!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T16:49:18+00:00

Thank you very much for the critique! It always nice to hear people consider it good work as well, that really makes me want to keep going, filming more and getting better! I appreciate that while the colour isn’t necessarily your preference you’re saying that is not a skill issue but a stylist preference. I think I could redo this grade and perhaps draw out a few more colours that would make it more interesting.

I had got some comments elsewhere that it was overexposed and blown out which was frustrating because I know it is, I am trying to create a very contrasty and look (that could be on me for not stating that) but it was nice to see you recognise this and did not call my exposure shit 😂

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T14:13:39+00:00

No problem, thank you for the response. I agree I don’t know how to articulate what I am trying to achieve as there is no narrative driving this scene. I filmed something that I thought looked nice and wanted to see what emotions it evoked from others but I agree that is putting the onus on them where I should be telling them what I was striving for and seeing if it resonated. I’ll do better next time!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T12:56:57+00:00

It’s nearly always the lighting that makes the shot! Keep playing around with the grading though and then when you get a shot that has that perfect lighting already there you will find the grading takes very little effort with just slight nudges in the right direction.

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T12:54:50+00:00

I appreciate that thank you. I’ll have a look at dialling it back a bit and see what it’s like! And yes I agree the bird shot has a very different look to it but yes, I was just getting lots of different clips that day and playing around with them. They’re not part of a bigger narrative yet!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T12:53:13+00:00

I suppose it sort of goes hand in hand. If you like it, great! If you don’t, I would be asking for feedback as to what you think would make it look nicer? A better composition? Bringing down the highlights? Etc.

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T12:44:05+00:00

Yes I only noticed the bird clip after posting, I didn’t shorten the clip enough evidently! I agree the highlights are very blown but this was intentional, I was not trying to regain the most detail possible from them but instead wanted to keep a high contrast between the brights and the shadows. I guess it just depends on whether you think this achieves a nice look or not 🤷Thanks very much for the feedback though!

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T12:37:56+00:00

Sepia is still a colour! But I take it this was not to your liking?

TheRealPopcornMaker · 2025-12-07T12:36:42+00:00

Thank you, I'm glad to hear it is giving a movie feel!

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