Slow motion gun editing.

Today I worked on the second shot which is taken by the main actor, Rowan. As I was shooting at the highest frame rate that the camera I was using could shoot at (30 fps) I was left to figure out a way in after effects to slow down the footage without reducing the quality. I carried out some research on YouTube. A large number of people suggested to use a plug in called Twixter. Additionally people stated that after effects is the most useful program in comparison to final cut pro when using the Twixter plug inn. Following this I downloaded a trial version of the Twixter plug inn. The video which is below showed the best results in applying the program to slowing it down. As the footage was only at 30 frames per second, it means that I could only really slow down the footage to around 55% of the original speed. This is still a significant amount, and when applying it to the footage really helped to create the action slide back of the gun. This links into the reason why I chose to have a gun which has a blow back feature. After adding the slow motion feature I started working on the muzzle flair. As I didn't have a live action muzzle flash to use, I had to create one. I did this by using several different stock muzzle flash footage and having them slowly getting bigger from the barrel. This can be seen in the screen shots below of the muzzle flash opening up from the gun. Additionally, I added a 3D layer to each of the muzzle flashes in order to bend the z and y axis to make the muzzle flashes look more like they are in the seen. To help add the effect of the muzzle flash I added another adjustment layer to the scene when the muzzle flash is at its brightest, through the use of brightness color correction.

Below is a screen shot of me working on these effects in after effects.