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Rather new to video, but I am starting to experiment with it for natural history. Now, I have a couple of questions that I’m hoping some body could help me with..

I want to start shooting slow motion on it (according to the manual, it seems pretty decent! ) however when I try and access the slow motion, it is “grayed” out and won’t let me select it in the menu? This is despite having it in the manual movie mode shooting on the main command dial.. I’m pretty stumped, can anyone help me please?

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You may have to manually select a higher frame rate before the camera will let you access the slow motion feature.
 
paul.w said:
You may have to manually select a higher frame rate before the camera will let you access the slow motion feature.
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Thanks Paul, I’m sorry to sound stupid but can you direct me? I’ve searched the web and read god knows how many times I’ve read the manual it doesn’t hit me!
 
I'm not overly familiar with the settings of the fz1000 (although I have a fz2000 on order). But I think you need to set a frame rate of around 120 frames per second minimum for slow motion to work. You may need to toggle through the recording formats until you see VFR available (variable frame rate) then up the frame rate to 120 fps.
If you record at 120fps, and playback at 30 fps you will get -4x slow motion.
 
paul.w said:
I'm not overly familiar with the settings of the fz1000 (although I have a fz2000 on order). But I think you need to set a frame rate of around 120 frames per second minimum for slow motion to work. You may need to toggle through the recording formats until you see VFR available (variable frame rate) then up the frame rate to 120 fps.
If you record at 120fps, and playback at 30 fps you will get -4x slow motion.
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Thanks Paul. I've managed to do that, it's jut the higher speed ones that I'm having trouble - a search on the web reveals that it does 240fpS at the lower res.. but it never appears. It's completely doing my head in, will call Panasonic tech support in the week I think. Thank you for your help though, much appreciated
 
No problem mate, I'll have a think about out as well, I'm sure there's a simple solution.
 
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