Creating Slow Motion clips in Premiere Pro CC

Sometimes we want to make footage slow motion because, let's face it, slow motion shots are freakin' beautiful. But what is the best way to do so? A lot of people will recommend that you put the clip into your sequence, right click it, selected speed/duration, and then slow the clip down to whatever you like.
DO NOT DO THAT.

Often times, if you follow that method, you will end up with choppy footage that looks icky. And nobody wants that.

If you REALLY want nice looking slow motion, the answer lies within the frame rate of your footage.

I found this nifty little article on The Beat - A PremiumBeat Blog called Creating Beautiful Slow Motion in Adobe Premiere Pro

The article goes over different methods on how to create slow motion clips by setting clips at 60 fps to be 23.98 fps. The main one that I like to use is the second method - doing all of the clips at once haha.

Here are the simple steps (click the link for visuals):

1) Select your clips in your bin that you want to make slow-mo.
2) Right click and select “Modify>Interpret Footage.”
3) Select “Assume this frame rate” and set the value to your timeline’s frame rate.

And you're done! Super easy!

SIDE NOTE: In the comments Darkwing Productions has a good point about shooting in 60fps with the intention of slowing down:

"One other thing to keep in mind, you need more light to shoot in 60fps, because you usually want to try shoot at a shutter speed equal to twice your frame rate, which in this case would be 1/120. I shoot a lot of sports, and although I would love to use my 720x60 mode more often for the smooth slow-mo it can produce, but I find that the lighting often isn't sufficient.

When it comes to 24fps vs 30fps, I tend to go with 24fps if I need a tad more light (1/48 vs 1/60). It's not a huge difference, but when you're in a pinch, every little bit helps. I find you can barely notice the difference between 24fps and 30fps unless you're dealing with a fast moving subject."

Making Subclips in Premiere CC

Subclips are a great way to organize longer footage into smaller clips within your project bins. This helps if you working on something like a documentary and need to find particular parts of dialogue but don't have transcripts to help you scrub through all of the clips.

While researching how to make subclips, I came across this tutorial from Peachpit:



Just so happens that make Subclips is super easy! There are several ways to create them and then it's just about putting them into the right bins!

Happy Editing!

Optical Flares for After Effects

We have discovered a plugin for after effects called Optical Flares :) This helps out a lot in the SFX department and will help do some advancements in our future projects. However, first we need to learn how to use it haha

Video Copilot actually has a tutorial course that teaches you the basics of this plugin. It's two parts with part one being 16 chapters. It's an investment to watch - but chock full of information from working the design interface to working with mask positioning and shimmer animations. Everything you need to get started!

You can watch it here: Optical Flares: The Creative Lens Flare Studio

Installing Plug-Ins to Adobe Premiere Pro CC

So we recently updated our Adobe Suite to the Creative Cloud package (YAY!). However, when we do this, our plug-ins don't come with us, so we had to find the proper way to reinstall them.

I found this page that outlines the best ways to do this for both Mac & PC from Toolfarm: In Depth: Plug-ins Adobe After Effects CC and Premiere Pro CC

Basically, you have to follow this path:

Macintosh HD > Library > Application Support > Adobe > Common > Plug-ins > 7.0 > MediaCore

Once you have that path, you copy/paste your plug-in folders into the MediaCore folder. Then voilà! Your plug-ins should be ready to go after restarting that application :)

Adobe Creative Cloud

This may be a favorable alternate to buying new software from Adobe. The creative cloud is a membership service that allows the member to download all Adobe Apps and stay constantly (and immediately) updated at all times for a monthly fee.

For more info: Adobe Creative Cloud Overview