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Control time by shooting and editing in smooth slo-mo

•Enhance your videos with a slow motion effect

One second of video footage usually consists of 25 or 30 still frames, and when viewing the footage back the action appears to unfold in real time. If you want to inject drama into your clips, though, you can re-time your footage in imovie to slow it down. However, creating a slow motion clip in this way involves adding extra frames that makes playback jerky. Fortunately, you can create a smoother slow motion clip using your iphone camera’s ‘Slo-mo’ mode. This captures the action at a much higher frame-rate, enabling you to savour a sporting moment or add gravitas to a clip. In this walkthrough we’ll demonstrate how to adjust a variety of slow motion settings with your iphone and show you how to import the slo-mo footage into imovie so that you can enhance your projects with it.

A video like this would be over too fast to have any lasting effect in real time. Use slow-mo to build up the drama!