Steve here again, I'm still very new to videopad, and relatively new to video editing in general?
Is there an inherent loss in quality, when a clip is slowed down?
For example, see these clips (about 30 seconds each)--
Full speed:
2/3 speed:
I used Videopad to cut these clips out of the raw footage, and to slow down the one clip to 2/3 speed.
Both on vimeo, and in the actual clips (as seen on VLC video player), the 2/3 speed clip is blurrier than the full-speed clip. In particular, if you randomly hit freeze-frame as you play back the 2/3 speed clip, you'll often land on a frame where some of the features are rather blurry, or where there is a fainter "ghost" second image offset from the main image. This is particularly obvious if you look at the long white straps that extend forward in the frame. On the full-speed version, no matter where you freeze the playback, the picture is usually sharper, and never contains a second "ghost" image.
Does anyone have suggestions to avoid this loss of quality?
The original footage was from a Go-Pro camera, 1280x960 pixels, 29.97 fps. Those are also the settings I entered into Videopad, both for the full-speed version and for the 2/3 speed version.
I'd appreciate any suggestions. Hoping to get better results with slow-motion video, was one of the reasons I abandoned the editing software I was using previously.
Steve