Birds in Slow Motion Sony XR500

Here's a little experiment. Sony's "Slow Movie Record" technology compresses 240fps for three seconds into a buffer and then processes it for another 12 seconds resulting in a 12 second shot. It appears to process at 60i. So I edited this in Apple's Final Cut into a 720-60p timeline, then used Apple's cinema tools to conform the sequence into 24p, resulting in changing the already slow-motion video to a relatively smooth 40%. If my math is correct, playback is actually 6.25% of normal speed. There is a significant loss of quality, but this video also has a bit of digital zoom, you should be able to tell which shots.

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Quality suffers with the slow motion over-cranking, so viewing at 720p full screen isn't going to be all that pretty. But in the standard window, its fairly tolerable.