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What is high-speed and tabletop video?
High-speed video captures footage at very high frame rates, often 1,000 frames a second or more on cameras like the Phantom, so a split-second action plays back in smooth, dramatic slow motion. Its the half-second that makes your product impossible to resist. Tabletop video production is the close-up, macro craft of shooting food and product with precision lighting and styling. Together they bring out the details and textures that define premium food and beverage cinematography.
Why invest in high-speed and tabletop?
Because slow motion does something no other technique can: it makes an ordinary moment feel extraordinary. A beer pour at full speed is a pour. Shot as a slow motion food video at a thousand frames a second, it is a hero shot, every bubble and every cascade in hypnotic detail. These are the moments that anchor a commercial, stop a scroll, and make a product look worth its price. A few seconds of high-speed footage stretch a long way. One hero shot can headline a TV spot, loop on socials, and live on a product page, which makes it some of the highest-impact footage in any beverage commercial production.
Pours, splashes, sizzles, and the perfect drip
We shoot the moments that sell food and drink - the core of our high-speed food videography: Liquid pours and splashes in slow motion. Carbonation and condensation up close. Sizzles, steam, and the sear. Powders, spices, and ingredients in mid-air. Melts, drips, and the cheese pull. Whatever the hero moment is, we capture it with the frame rate and macro detail to make it unforgettable.
The gear, and the people who know how to use it
High-speed is unforgiving. Frame rate, exposure, lighting, and timing all have to be right before the camera rolls, because a missed take at a thousand frames a second cannot be recreated. That is why this work lives or dies on experience. We shoot on Phantom high-speed cameras, and when a shot calls for motion-control rigs like a Bolt, we rent the gear and bring in the right people: our DP roster and creative director Nico have run this kind of work before. You get a roster of specialist collaborators built for tabletop video production and food and beverage cinematography, not a generalist crew guessing at settings.
Our Process:
We follow a simple, well-tested approach to ensure every shot is planned and executed with precision:
Discovery Call
We learn your product, the hero moment, and where the shot will run.
Concept & Look
We design the shot, the frame rate, and the styling to land it.
Creative Collaboration
We confirm the rig, camera, and approach with you before the shoot.
Production
We shoot on Phantom and high-speed gear, styled and lit for the perfect take.
Retouch & Delivery
We grade and deliver the hero shot plus cutdowns for every placement.
What Our Clients
Are
Saying About Us
Chicken Farmers of Canada have had the pleasure of working closely with the Gotham Studios team for the past two years and they’ve really helped us take our recipe and food photo and video content to the next level. Their team is knowledgeable an knows how to make recipes and food look great! Thanks to their remote production capabilities and streamlined processes, our team has been able to seamlessly oversee filming and photography sessions without ever leaving our Ottawa offices. I would highly recommend working with Gotham.
JJ Hochrein
Director, Brand Marketing
Chicken Farmers of Canada
Working with Gotham Studios gave us a turn-key production solution to quickly scale up our content library with high quality assets which our internal team was able to leverage to spin up ads, posts, and content across all of our organic and paid channels.
Corey Dubeau
Chief Marketing Officer
Pulp & Press
We’ve worked with the team at Gotham Studios on multiple occasions. They’ve shot food photography for us, images in our plant, and at our farms on Manitoulin Island. Nick, Chris, and the rest of the team are always responsive, professional, and easy to work with. We are planning to work with Gotham for more shoots in the future.
Harrison Cole
Owner
Cole Munro
Our Work
Frequently Asked Questions
A high-speed camera, such as a Phantom, records far more frames per second than a normal camera, often 1,000 or more. Played back at standard speed, that footage becomes ultra-smooth slow motion, which is how you capture a splash or a pour as a crisp, dramatic slow motion food video.
Pours, splashes, and droplets. Carbonation, steam, and condensation. Sizzles and sears. Powders, spices, and ingredients suspended in mid-air. Melts, drips, and cheese pulls. If it is a hero food or drink moment, high-speed and tabletop is how you make it unforgettable.
Yes. When a shot needs a motion-control rig like a Bolt for precise, repeatable moves, we rent the gear and bring in our experienced DPs and creative director, who have run this kind of work before. You get the capability without paying to own equipment that sits idle between shoots.
This is video. High-speed and tabletop is about motion, so it lives on the video side. If you also need still product imagery, our Stylized Product Photography page covers that.
It depends on the shot. Frame rate, camera, lighting, styling, and whether a shot needs a motion-control rig all change the scope, so we quote each project individually. It is often shot as part of a larger commercial or as a focused high-speed day. Tell us the shot you want and we will scope it.
Absolutely. High-speed hero shots are often captured as part of a commercial production, giving you both the full spot and a set of slow-motion moments to use across social and ads, which is the backbone of strong beverage commercial production.
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