Question for professional videographers

[Auggie]

Last edited Tue Apr 7, 2020, 08:11 AM - Edit history (2)

I'm going to be filming some recipe videos similar to what you might see on Facebook -- mostly overhead shots, from assembly to plated dish.

My question is how to speed up the action of certain segments.

Is it better to shoot at a slower frame rate, or speed up the clip segment in editing software? Is there a difference in video resolution or clip quality of any kind?

Only drawback I can see to filming at slow frame rate is that if I change my mind I'd have to reshoot the sequence. If I speed up in editing I can always change back to real time.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

[Major Nikon]

1. I'm not sure what you mean by filming at a fast speed

If you increase the frame rate it doesn't speed up the video, so if that's what you mean what it's doing is adding more frames per second. I suppose it's possible you might have some kind of camera that might do it natively, but I don't see the advantage over doing it post processing besides saving rendering time.

[Auggie]

2. Apologies. I meant slow film speed down.

Fixed on edit.

[ManiacJoe]

3. I would do the speed up in the software editing.

I am certainly not a video pro.
I like this approach because you can later change your mind, like you have stated, and because there are no camera setting changes once you get things setup as you like them for normal speed.

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4. Thanks. That's what I'm thinking.

There's an artificial gimmicky feel to it as well, and that's okay IMO -- viewers know you're doing it to speed up the mundane or for comic effect.