Graham Hancock

Overcranking with the HMC-150

Spent my Saturday afternoon playing with a filmmaking technique called overcranking. It’s when you shoot at a high frame rate and then slow down or “conform” the footage to a lower frame rate. In my case, I shot all of the footage below at 60 frames per second and then conformed it to 24 frames a second. What that amounts to is everything that happens in 1 second of video, takes 2.5 seconds to play back. What that means is you’ll have slow, fluid movement across the frame. A cool effect, and a great technique!