How to Get Extra Slow Motion using Speed Warp - DaVinci Resolve 16 Tutorial
In today's tutorial we're talking about retime effects in DaVinci Resolve 16 and the incredible results you can get with Speed Warp using Optical Flow. This can allow you go get extra slow motion out of shots and can be used to get some pretty extreme shots, but it also has a lot of use in everyday situations where you need a shot to be just a bit longer to fit the edit. So something shot at 24fps could be stretched out to 48fps or more to fit your needs.
I will note that speed warp is only available in the studio version but everything else I show can be done in the free version.
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Notes
So it's worth noting that by conventional wisdom there's typically specific frame rates you should adjust your shots to based on your timeline frame rate. For example having 30fps footage on a 24fps timeline using the nearest frame mode would cause certain frames to drop resulting in stuttered playback, whereas if you had 48 fps footage every second frame would get removed resulting in smooth playback. This is why in the video I typically adjust to double the frame rate. However, with the use of optical flow I'm under the impression that it could result in smoother playback at different rates, but I haven't done enough testing to fully back that idea.
Also I hope you enjoyed the beginning clip, it was fairly goofy and set up super fast so I did some heavy lifting in the color grading department to get it looking close to what I had in mind. I'm planning more dramatic intros like that cause I feel like they're a fun way to demonstrate the effect before we get into things.
Reference:
To learn more check out pages 833-834 of the DaVinci Resolve March 2020 Reference Manual which can be found int the help tab of DaVinci Resolve.
Gear I use:
Camera - Black Magic Pocket 4k
Microphone - Rode NTK
Main Lens - Meike 12mm f2.8
Other lenses - Meike 35 mm f1.7, Rokinon 50mm T1.5, Rokinon 24mm T1.5
Tripod - Velbon Videomate 638
Computer Specs:
CPU - Ryzen 1700x
GPU - GTX 1070