Shutter speed footage

So I have some footage that has had the shutter speed changed as i done a manual setting on the camera(XLR2).
The reason i changed this was we had to film a presentation with LCD screens in the shot. So to stop the flickering of the screens i changed the Shutter speed. This obviously effects the picture. We filmed in 50i 16:9 25fps. I have now digitized the footage into fcp but obviously we still have a slight lag in the motion image. Is there a solution or effect so that i can have this footage looking more......"normal"..... rather than a little bit slow motioney??
Does frame blending help or hinder?
Thanks in advance
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bananaman-dan wrote:
So I have some footage that has had the shutter speed changed as i done a manual setting on the camera(XLR2).
Maybe you changed the frame rate not the shutter speed?
bananaman-dan wrote:
The reason i changed this was we had to film a presentation with LCD screens in the shot. So to stop the flickering of the screens i changed the Shutter speed. This obviously effects [sic] the picture.
It's not obvious at all from where I sit.
bananaman-dan wrote:
We filmed in 50i 16:9 25fps. I have now digitized the footage into fcp but obviously we still have a slight lag in the motion image. Is there a solution or effect so that i can have this footage looking more......"normal"..... rather than a little bit slow motioney??
Does frame blending help or hinder?
It's not obvious at all from where I sit.
You're saying you shot at normal shutter speeds of 1/50s for most of the scenes but these interiors with the screens were shot at, what, 1/4s? And you allowed movement to occur in the shot? do we have that correct?
You have recorded image blur caused by a shutter being left open while lit objects in the frame moved. There is no way to remove those pixels that leave trails behind the objects. You must reshoot.
bogiesan

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