>Slow motion film is done by shooting at very high frame rates.
>Typically 200fps but often much higher or lower, depending on
>the effect desired. If you try to slown down footage that was shot
>at normal rates you will soon see the individual frames. I know
>that Aftereffects has a pretty nice frame blending function, but I'm
>not sure if premiere does it as well (haven't tried).
>
>Frame blending essecientially dissolves from one field to the next.
>This helps a lot to smooth out the motion, but it only goes so far.
>After that you get into software like Retimer (RealViz) that essentially
>morphs from frame to frame, but it needs a fair amount of hands on
>supervision to do a really good job. It also cost about $5000. Someone
>may have mentioned a cheaper (perhaps shareware?) solution a
>while back, but I know nothing about that.
Canopus offers the free DV Speed Control software download
that works well for slo-mo - not perfect, but not bad. Also,
Mini-DV can be captured while the camera is in slo-mo
playback mode...