By applying EDISON to your Higher Frame Rates (HFR) video shot at 100 FPS or above with a 360° shutter, you can change the Frame Rate and Shutter Speed of your footage in Post.

Edison allows you to emulate multiple different frame rates within one timeline and even within a single clip. You can ramp the frame rate slowly or use sudden changes to underline your story.

Variable Frame Rates are a completly new tool for storytelling, that has never been as accessible as it is now with EDISON.

Additionally, EDISON can blend together multiple single frames to simulate different shutter angles. You can decide how much motion blur you want to have for each shot or keyframe the motion blur throughout.

EDISON also allows you to emulate shutter angles that are physically not possible to capture in camera. For example, a shutter angel of 720° results in a long exposure effect that blurs movement. This can be used as a cool, creative effect for your next commercial or narrative.

To have the most flexibility when it comes to shutter angles and frame rates, we recommend that you shoot your footage at 96 FPS or higher with a 360° shutter angle.

Shooting a 360° shutter angle is important for the frame blending to deliver physically accurate results.

Remember: EDISON allows you to always retrieve your traditional cinematic 180° shutter look, while also leaving room for more creative decisions in post.

Well yes and no. You will need a clip that it is at least 100 FPS 360° shutter (same applies to 96 FPS 360° for a 24 FPS baseline). But if you have a clip at 50 FPS 180° shutter you can use an optical flow algorithm (that comes with DaVinci Resolve) to interpolate every other frame and render a 100 FPS clip. That you can then reimport. Since a 180° shutter for 50 FPS is shot at 1/100 second the interpolation results in 100 FPS at 1/100s, or in other words a 360° shutter.

If you have the put the wrong settings the video will not play back accurately. Therefore it is important to interpret the footage in DaVinci in the right frame rate, else it will assume to frame rate of your timeline.
To do so right click on the clip in the media pool and go to Clip Attributes there you can set the Video Frame Rate. If you have imported the clip to the timeline before you have to remove it and reimport it again after this.

Another issue could be that you have set the wrong Source Frame Rate in our plugin. The Source Frame Rate should be the same the video was shot in and the same you have set the Video Frame Rate in the Clip Attributes to.

As of now, EDISON is available for DaVinci Resolve. Resolve ist free to download and has become the new industry standard for video editing and color grading.

We are also working to bring EDISON to more editing software, like Premiere Pro or Final Cut Pro.

EDISON is supported under DaVinci Resolve 17 and above.

We offer EDISON for macOS and will publish a version for Windows soon.

We recommend to use EDISON on an Apple Silicon Mac or a CUDA graphics card on Windows for the best performance.

Make sure that you have Metal / CUDA graphics activated in your video settings in DaVinci Resolve.