Slow Motion Fire Tornado

November 23, 2015 10:43 AM

We've seen 'All-Natural' Fire Tornadoes and 'Home-Made' Fire Tornadoes, but The Slo-Mo Guys have finally brought us a Slow-Motion Fire Tornado.
posted by Confess, Fletch (6 comments total)

This is not their most interesting one, because there is not really anything special or extra that is revealed by the slowmo. But overall these guys are excellent. And I especially like the sound effects they use for the slow down / speed up transition.
posted by Meatbomb at 10:52 AM on November 23, 2015

Gavin Free has talked (briefly) a few times on the Rooster Teeth podcast about how doing the sound effects/foley work tends to be the most time intensive part of the videos. He really does take great care and time to get the entire presentation right.

I think there might even be a vlogish video on Slow-Mo Guys that discusses it too.
posted by mayonnaises at 11:23 AM on November 23, 2015

You can get almost the exact same sound by saying "Testing-1-2-3" into your computer microphone, loading it up in Audacity and Ctrl+A, Effect->Paulstretch "20" and clicking OK.

May want to run a low pass filter and pitch up 1-2 semitones as needed to achieve the pitch you're targeting, but the result's basically identical (verified in under 30 seconds prior to posting this).
posted by Ryvar at 11:32 AM on November 23, 2015

The slow motion sequences looked like a baby shoggoth, only made of fire.
posted by GenjiandProust at 11:42 AM on November 23, 2015

All excited, I tried Ryvar's suggestion, and apparently my speech is actually constructed from foreboding hell-chants.
posted by lucidium at 5:41 PM on November 23, 2015

I lost like an hour and a half this evening watching their stuff. I think my favorite might be the one where they have two droplets colliding, for sheer beauty.
posted by leahwrenn at 11:13 AM on November 24, 2015