Help with High Speed Footage

I'm reaching out for some help on how to convert some high speed footage to a usable internet format.

Here is what I have:
- A video clip shot with a Olympus i-SPEED camera.
- Format is WRAM.
- 500 frames per second.

I can convert it with Quicktime Pro but the problem is that it convert the footage to real time playback. I need the "super slow" effect by taking the many frames and making them into a longer clip. So 500 frames on one second becomes 10 seconds worth of video at 50 frames per second.

Can anyone help?

Hey Henning, most editing software should handle this no problem. I know using Vegas, you would use the "Time compression/stretching" event functionality.

Edit: Another method is doing a "resample". Most editing tools (consumer & pro grade) should have the option of using either method. Resampling is easy with Vegas, you just click the option from the "Render as" dialog box before rendering the project. If you have half an hour of this 500fps video, be prepared to leave your computer for awhile.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on Dec 18, 2007]

I was looking for a small program to do this similar to Quicktime Pro.

Well in that case, (and if you just want to simply change the frame rate), there are I think some open source utilities that let you modify the frame rate of an avi file or stream. Try google "AVI Frame Rate Changer" and have a look at some of the options.

The "Open Video Converter" open source utility may be another option, but I've never tried it myself.

[Post edited by Skyhawk on Dec 18, 2007]