Thanks Arnold, I like the channel you created

You simply speed up the music and have your actor sing to that sped up version. Then after your filming, bring the song back to normal speed, but slo down your footage. Voila!

awesome!!!!!! very nicely done. must try it... and great choice of music. 311 rocks...

Thank you, and yes I agree. 311 does rock

haha...interesting. I'll look into it. :)

Yea I don't know if there's a specific name for the technique but I've always loved the way it looked.

Thanks Charlie :)

I sped it up using Final Cut Express HD. All I did was drag the audio clip into the timeline then use the shortcut "apple J" to bring up the speed function. Then just speed or slow down however much you want. If you're using a PC I can't help ya. I'm a mac guy.

Thanks man

I see where you are coming from. But like the video title says, it's just an initial test. I plan on doing more of this with all sorts of crazy stuff happening. :) I think the slow mo looks good in this because there wasn't a ton of motion going on in the background or with my friend singing. He kept pretty still and that seems to show good results. I did another test with this on myself rapping to a faster beat song and even though the voices lined up, the motion blur and frame blending looked awful.

Thanks

What software do you use? I used Final Cut Express and After Effects to achieve this but it's also how you shoot it with your camera. I shot it at a high shutter speed, like 1500.

ok well one place you can get some pretty good info on this stuff and other cool things is VideoCopilot.net. From there, there's a "Basic After Effects Training" section that has a cool tutorial on time remapping. Check it out to get started. Good luck :)

Thanks man! :)

Hey thanks a lot, James. I shot this with a Sony FX1 and added the fake depth of field in After Effects.

don't mean to pry on your secret recipe, but did you use just a regular gaussian blur effect with feathered edges? amazing how good the DOF looks.

No worries man. I like answering questions about this kind of stuff. Yea, just a normal gaussian blur with feathered edges. I use it quite often

Thanks a lot. I use a Sony FX1 which, unfortunately, does NOT shoot in 24p. I just shot this with a high shutter speed.

Thanks man. It actually wasnt that hard to sync up the video. I simply sped my track up to 200 percent and played that back so the "actor" could lip to it. After that, we imported the footage and slowed that down 200 percent. Then it was just a matter of taking the normal speed song and lining it up in FCE.

Yea basically. Just speed the song up first to 200 percent or whatever you want, save it out, then play it while your talent sings along to it at "chipmunk" speed. You then have to slow down your video footage the same comparable amount to sync back up to the normal speed song. it'll take some finicking to get it just right but should look good in the end. Good luck!

Nope, just shot at 60i on a Sony FX1 and then slowed down in After Effects with the time remapping function.