Achieving a silent film look with a 5DMKII?

[timroz]

Is this possible? I'm looking to undercrank some footage a little but not sure if a 5D is the best way to approach this. Obviously there will have to be a good work done in post to achieve the aesthetic I'm looking for (vignettes, iris-in, iris-out, etc) but in terms of frame rate, I'm a little confused as to what I should do. Any help appreciated!

[Germy1979]

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Is this possible? I'm looking to undercrank some footage a little but not sure if a 5D is the best way to approach this. Obviously there will have to be a good work done in post to achieve the aesthetic I'm looking for (vignettes, iris-in, iris-out, etc) but in terms of frame rate, I'm a little confused as to what I should do. Any help appreciated!
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Haven't been following the Magic Lantern version on the Mark 3 lately, but there's a frame rate override feature on it that would let you do that.. You might look into that? Good luck!

[Axel]

To get the right motion resolution you should keep in mind that most of the old silent movies we see today were shot at a speed of around 16 fps. [i]Around[/i], because the film was transported through the film gate by the cameraman with a crank. They were being transferred to run @24 fps by frame doubling. This is how we ever got the chance to see these films.

>shoot at 24 fps, shutter 1/25.
>speed up 150 %, no frame blending, no optical flow or flow motion, this means throwing away 8 frames per second
> export this
> re-import it into a 24 fps timeline
> slow down to values between 80 and 85 % (to simulate the handcranking), again, only repeating frames

EDIT: I'm not sure if this is logical. I did this before, but I can't remember the details. But it's the principle.
EDIT 2: If you turn [u]on[/u] pixel flow in the last step, it will look like more motion blur, give it a try.