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Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them? by dragontamer on Thursday January 13, 2022 @12:27PM (#29923656)
> In 2010s slow-motion (high FPS played back at regular speed) was the thing. So every other video had the slow motion "water/colored dust hitting something" scene.

Probably more late-00s than 2010s, but IIRC, the optical-flow slowdown effect was created (and cheaply) distributed.

Older slow-mo effects required high FPS cameras. But with 00s technology, you could optical-flow time warp to any slowdown you desired, with mostly good looking results. 300 (released in 2006) was the first popular film that did this, but IIRC the effect was being used in a lot of action films all over the place.

Slow-motion was definitely the "Oh wow, that looks cool, and it costs so cheap. Lets do it" effect of the 00s.

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Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them? by basch on Thursday January 13, 2022 @02:37PM (#29925654)
>300 (released in 2006) was the first popular film that did this

Does Spider-Man count in 2002?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM7Eou4bV-Q&t=56s

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Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them? by dragontamer on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:10PM (#29926130)
That's definitely not the optical-flow slowdown trick I'm talking about. That spiderman slow-motion was some combination of 3d effects and maybe real-life cameras ("Matrix" style: https://beforesandafters.com/2021/07/15/vfx-artifacts-the-bu...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfdyroV7kc

This scene from 300 is very clearly just a wide-angle shot (initially), with someone playing with the Optical Flow timewarp effect (sliding it up and down). Its incredibly cheap.

See this demo in Premier Pro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErOc_LkZaIk

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That's the thing. 300's main innovation was using _cheap_ effects. Optical flow time-warp didn't appear on Premier for another few years, but the algorithm was popular and was just a custom filter / program that was getting passed around at that time.

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Re:Colors in movies and TV: What happened to them? by basch on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:37PM (#29927223)
Upon rewatch, im not even convinced its bullet time and not just a bunch of people standing very still. Which worked for the most part in Anna Karenina and that one video of kids playing basketball.

Your point makes sense though, the commonization of frame interpolation is a landmark moment.

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