Edison - FrameFusion

Rethinking Frame Rate.

Shoot your videos at 100FPS 360° to gain full control with EDISON.
Our plugin allows you to change the shutter speed and frame rate of your footage in post. Variable Frame Rates & Creative Shutter enable completely new ways of storytelling.
Right inside your DaVinci Resolve Timeline.

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Shoot Slow-Motion and Cinematic Motion at the same time

With EDISON you can now shoot everything in Slow-Motion (Higher Frame Rates - HFR) and choose your Frame Rate Look in Post-Production. This comes in especially handy for events where you need to shoot a lot of your footage in slow-motion but you might still need to playback at a regular frame rate with a cinematic look.

Slow-Shutter Look with EDISON

Shoot in 100 FPS and 360° to create a Slow-Shutter effect with EDISON.

Unmatched simplicity.

No external software, no exporting and importing. No additional rendering.

We designed EDISON to integrate seemlessly into your DaVinci Resolve workflow. You can change the frame rate and shutter speed of your footage right inside your Resolve timeline and playback the results right away.

Our simple and effective workflow takes away the technical hassle and leaves room for the important things: Telling stories, creatively.

Change the Shutter Angle in post.

With frame blending in EDISON you can change the shutter angle of your footage in post production. With our linear gamma conversion we ensure realistic and physically accurate results*.

*footage has to be shot at a 360° shutter angle

What nobody tells you about Frame Rate

The Standard Frame Rate of 24 or 25 fps was once established due to technical limitations of the film cameras. It was the lowest value that allowed for a barely fluid representation of movement, while saving as much of the precious film material as possible. The film could only be exposed for half of the frames duration (180° Shutter) because it had to be transported mechanically between the exposures. In the digital age, we don't have to oblige to these limitations - we can shoot "RAW" frame rates.

Benefits of shooting HFR

More is more

When it comes to resolution, bit depth or compression, we usually aim for the highest quality possible. 8K, 14bit, RAW recording are commonly used with the justification "the more information we capture, the more possibilities we have to edit in post".

This concept also applies to frame rate. If we capture more motion information, meaning 100+ fps at a 360° shutter angle, we can change all motion related attributes in post.

This opens up completely new possibilities for story

Temporal Downsampling

The concept of motion interpolation is not new. If we find that a certain shot was captured with insufficient frames per second, we try to enhance it later in post. This process relies on estimating the movement that was not captured between the frames. While it sometimes works out, most of the times we have to deal with motion artefacts and physically inaccurate results.

It is much better to reverse this process and downsample a high amount of information down to what we want or need.

With temporal downsampling, we can segment the continuous temporal stream that we capture with HFR 360° material into every output that we need.

If a scene is shot at 100fps with a 360° shutter, it can be easily downsampled to a 25fps 180° shutter look if desired. Try that the other way around.

You can always avoid the "soap opera effect" by downsampling your HFR material, and use the extra motion information when you need it (fast moving objects, panning, tilting etc.)

Sharper images

By shooting at a higher frame rate, we automatically (have to) decrease the shutter angle, hence the shutter speed or exposure time of each frame.

This results in sharper frames with less motion blur that can actually make use of the high resolution 4K or 8K sensors.

With temporal downsampling, we can always blend frames together to regain the traditional motion blur. But not the other way around.

Exposure? Not a problem.

Of course, the shorter shutter speed results into less exposure on the sensor. But it's not as bad as you´d think.

By shooting at a 360° shutter angle, we gain one stop of light compared to the traditional 180° shutter approach.

That means shooting 100fps at 360° only demands one stop more light compared to the traditional 25fps 180°.

That can easily be handled by modern cameras and doesn't necessarily require more lights or faster lenses.

Compatible.

EDISON works with footage from all popular camera manufacturers. The gamma linearisation for physically accurate shutter emulation is compatible with all relevant logarithmic formats.

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