How do I slow down footage and make it look smooth?

[Zilla Magilla]

I’m currently making a fan-edit of Godzilla Raids Again. One of the things I decided to do was slow down the monster fight footage. It was infamously shot at a framerate that sped up the footage instead of slowing it down, destroying the illusion of weight.

Here’s where the issues start. Each of the slow motion settings either make the footage look jittery or have artifacts. I’m using Adobe Premeire Pro.

Does anyone more experienced have advice on getting a smoother slow-mo effect?

 

[addiesin]

Grab Flowframes. It's new and free. Uses AI, works like a charm.

It interpolates new frames into a video but keeps the same duration. So you could set it to be 4x the frames, then take the output and slow it down in Premiere by 4x and you would have slower footage at the right frame rate with zero duplicate frames.

Premiere alone will duplicate frames to achieve its slowmo. "Optical Flow" in Premiere is the best setting but doesn't hold a candle to AI interpolation.

 

[Zilla Magilla]

Thanks! I’ll definitely give that a try. Downloading it right now.

 

[MusicEd921]

I second Flowframes. Takes a few to understand how to use it, but works wonders.

 

[Zilla Magilla]

I second Flowframes. Takes a few to understand how to use it, but works wonders.

I’m sure there’s tutorials on Youtube I can watch. It’s how I learned Premeire Pro and everything.

 

[Zilla Magilla]

Grab Flowframes. It's new and free. Uses AI, works like a charm.

It interpolates new frames into a video but keeps the same duration. So you could set it to be 4x the frames, then take the output and slow it down in Premiere by 4x and you would have slower footage at the right frame rate with zero duplicate frames.

Premiere alone will duplicate frames to achieve its slowmo. "Optical Flow" in Premiere is the best setting but doesn't hold a candle to AI interpolation.

So I downloaded it and tried it, but I keep getting the same error message. It says my input file might be incompatible. Any idea on how to input a compatible file?

 

[addiesin]

So I downloaded it and tried it, but I keep getting the same error message. It says my input file might be incompatible. Any idea on how to input a compatible file?

It's been a little while since I've done it, but what worked best for me is to load the source video in Premiere and export your clip you want to lengthen as a sequence of PNG images in a folder together. Flowframes can take the whole folder as a clip.

The itch page claims the following:
Can read MP4, GIF, WEBM, MKV, MOV, BIK, and more video formats
Can also take image sequences as PNG, JPEG and more as input
Output as video (MP4/MKV/WEBM/MOV), GIF, or frames

 

[Zilla Magilla]

It's been a little while since I've done it, but what worked best for me is to load the source video in Premiere and export your clip you want to lengthen as a sequence of PNG images in a folder together. Flowframes can take the whole folder as a clip.

The itch page claims the following:
Can read MP4, GIF, WEBM, MKV, MOV, BIK, and more video formats
Can also take image sequences as PNG, JPEG and more as input
Output as video (MP4/MKV/WEBM/MOV), GIF, or frames

I’ll give this a shot tomorrow. Thanks so much for your help.

 

[Zilla Magilla]

It's been a little while since I've done it, but what worked best for me is to load the source video in Premiere and export your clip you want to lengthen as a sequence of PNG images in a folder together. Flowframes can take the whole folder as a clip.

The itch page claims the following:
Can read MP4, GIF, WEBM, MKV, MOV, BIK, and more video formats
Can also take image sequences as PNG, JPEG and more as input
Output as video (MP4/MKV/WEBM/MOV), GIF, or frames

This method worked. Thanks again for your help. Do the rules allow me to share before and after clips?

 

[addiesin]

This method worked. Thanks again for your help. Do the rules allow me to share before and after clips?

Yeah, as long as it's streaming and not a download link. YouTube or Vimeo are usually good.

 

[Zilla Magilla]

Yeah, as long as it's streaming and not a download link. YouTube or Vimeo are usually good.

Here's the comparisons! It's privated on Youtube for extra safety.