From the course: Repairing and Enhancing Video

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Retiming footage: Overcranking

Retiming footage: Overcranking

- One option you may have when shooting on a camera is to shoot at a very high frame rate. For example, my smartphone can record at 240 frames per second. This means that I can pull-off a 10X motion effect. Many other cameras can also shoot at 60 or 120 frames per second, even when capturing things like 4K. When you have these extra frames you can change how those frames are interpreted and how they play back. Here I've got a clip that's shot at 30 frames per second and one that was captured at 59.94. Now, one of the choices you have is you can right-click on the clip and choose interpret footage, main. This allows you to type in new frame rate. For example, I can switch this to 23.976 if I needed to go to 24p, and click okay. Now this clip is going to be about 2.5 times speed. It's going to move with nice gentle slow-motion. You'll see here for example, as he lifts the bottle and begins to take a drink that it's going to be very smooth and gentle motion. Let's just jump forward…

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