Step Printing possible on set playback?

[Frank Barrera]

Hi

want to do step printing effect tomorrow morning with out a test. we are on build 16 and have been shooting feature for three weeks now.(full report to follow when I come up for air).

question is can we shoot 6 fps and play back at 6 fps?

the desired effect is step printing. or what i call "poor man's step printing" where you shoot film at 6 fps and transfer at 6fps and you get a nice smear to all action. like Doyle's early work with Wong Kar Wai

i'm thinking this would be straight forward in post to make it happen if we capture at 6 fps but would like to show the director something on set.

any thoughts would be most welcomed.

thanks in advance

frank b

[Evin Grant]

You should be able to shoot for the desired effect, but not play back in camera. Shoot 6FPS in varispeed and set your shutter to relative 1/48th/180º.
This will give you the proper blur. In post you will have to quadruple the frames to get to a 24fps step print look.

[Mark Crabtree]

Tape based cameras like VariCam have this figured out. The tape recorder is always recording the same number of frames. VariCam VTR at 60. So any reduced frame rate makes duplicated frames on the tape. Red is recording only what we shoot. It would be a nice feature in a future build to set camera frame rate and record frame rate independently.

[Stuart English]

We can currently do this during record when in TIMELAPSE mode, experiment with INTERVAL and STEP PRINT and see if that gets you close. We don't offer this in playback or normal record at this time however, one for the future perhaps.