Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 10 minutes ago
In today's tutorial we're talking about getting super slow motion out of you camera for free in DaVinci Resolve 16. Using features in the free version of Davinci resolve you can easily turn your 60 FPS footage into smooth 480 FPS shots making it 8 times slower.
Everything I show in this video can be done in the free version of DaVinci Resolve, aside from using the speed warp motion estimation.
Download Davinci Resolve for Free: blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
part 1: youtu.be/ZFdIknSnG7o
Notes:
The optical flow feature in combination with Speed Warp takes full advantage of Davinci Resolve's Neural Network were they utilize AI to help perform tasks. While only Speed Warp does use their neural network (that's the impression I get from reading the manual, reference listed below) the results you get without speed warp are comparable.
You can also see this AI in action in their facial recognition feature which I also did a video on: youtube.com/watch?v=Yr-wxQS1SkU
Now as I go over in the video there are a number of limitations and the key one being speed. If an object is moving so fast that a large number of changes occur between the frames that you capture then the AI is going to have a difficult time creating frames that accurately display what it should look like filmed at a super high frame rate. Decreasing motion blur can absolutely help get a clearer picture, but it's not magic. That being said as AI improves I think there is reason to believe that features like will also get better in the years to come.
References:
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
In today's tutorial we're talking about getting super slow motion out of you camera for free in DaVinci Resolve 16. Using features in the free version of Davinci resolve you can easily turn your 60 FPS footage into smooth 480 FPS shots making it 8 times slower.
Everything I show in this video can be done in the free version of DaVinci Resolve, aside from using the speed warp motion estimation.
Download Davinci Resolve for Free: blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve
part 1: youtu.be/ZFdIknSnG7o
Notes:
The optical flow feature in combination with Speed Warp takes full advantage of Davinci Resolve's Neural Network were they utilize AI to help perform tasks. While only Speed Warp does use their neural network (that's the impression I get from reading the manual, reference listed below) the results you get without speed warp are comparable.
You can also see this AI in action in their facial recognition feature which I also did a video on: youtube.com/watch?v=Yr-wxQS1SkU
Now as I go over in the video there are a number of limitations and the key one being speed. If an object is moving so fast that a large number of changes occur between the frames that you capture then the AI is going to have a difficult time creating frames that accurately display what it should look like filmed at a super high frame rate. Decreasing motion blur can absolutely help get a clearer picture, but it's not magic. That being said as AI improves I think there is reason to believe that features like will also get better in the years to come.
References:
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
