Users of a new camcorder will be able to intercut bursts of slow motion as they shoot, without the need for tricky editing and without the blur which spoils most home video slo-mo.
When the 鈥淟ive Slow鈥� button on the 拢500 JVC camcorder is pressed, the camera temporarily stops recording pictures direct to tape and instead starts feeding four copies of each frame into a memory chip. When transferred to tape and played back at normal speed, the sequence contains frames to show smooth action at a quarter of normal speed. The effect can be used to highlight someone swinging a cricket bat, say, or an athlete jumping over a bar. When the slow-motion clip ends, the recording jumps back to normal speed.
