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Video How-to Discussion (Time Lapse)

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by Trail X » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:16 pm

Thanks guys, it's step 1, of many.

My star view is really limited from my balcony, but luckily there seems to be many things that can get time-lapsed.

I think it's a cool artistic medium.

Working on a slider mechanism too... slowly. :photo:
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by Trail X » Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:37 am

This one came out pretty decent:

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by madmanvillain » Mon Jan 16, 2012 4:18 pm

www.hackaday.com has done a few builds on how to pan during a timelapse, and a ton of other cool photo hacks. Really they have a ton of cool hacks for a ton of stuff, most of them I have no idea what I would ever need it for but still want to build them.
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by Gordinho80 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:05 pm

My most recent Time Lapse... watch in higher res to see stars.

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by bgwolfpack » Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:09 pm

That's cool Mario. I love the contrast of the sky and clouds with the sunrise being a real surprise. :thumleft:
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by Trail X » Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:34 pm

Nice Mario, what interval were you shooting, and what was the ouput framerate? That speed on the stars worked well. Is that about 25mm focal length?
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by djthumper » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:07 pm

Nicely done.
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by Gordinho80 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 6:53 pm

Thanks guys. 1 minute intervals, 18mm focal length, approx. 12 fps, (0.08 seconds per image - Windows Movie Maker)
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by Trail X » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:57 pm

Mario, for some reason I thought when it down to fractions of a sec, it was out of 0.30 (my editor is that way at least). So 0.08 would be like 4 frames per second right? Maybe Movie Maker does it differently.
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by Gordinho80 » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:02 pm

Well, do the math. The lapse is 297 frames I think... 24 second long clip. 12.375 frames per second
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by Trail X » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:10 pm

Indeed!
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by Gordinho80 » Sat Jan 28, 2012 12:15 pm



Aperture Priority
Interval: 30 Seconds
Frame Rate:
Exposure: 30sec - 1/1000sec
F-stop: 3.5
Frame Rate (Winblows Movie Maker version): 0.08 seconds per image, translates to 12.5 fps
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by Trail X » Sat Jan 28, 2012 1:49 pm

Nice Mario! I still haven't tried one on Aperture Priority, but yours seems to do well!

Maybe tomorrow.
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by Trail X » Tue May 01, 2012 3:58 pm

Finally, some motion to my videos!

This is just a snippet of some of the cool stuff I've got cooking up from TECORE.

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by NC_IslandRunner » Tue May 01, 2012 8:43 pm

That was pretty cool James!
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by djthumper » Thu May 03, 2012 6:01 pm

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by Wahugg » Sun May 27, 2012 10:09 am

James, what software are you using to put together you time lapses?
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by Trail X » Sun May 27, 2012 8:47 pm

I would love to eventually get adobe premiere (maybe once I get a machine that can really handle video editing), but for now I have powerdirector 10. Works pretty well.
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by KE7WOX » Mon May 28, 2012 1:33 am

JamesDowning wrote:Finally, some motion to my videos!

This is just a snippet of some of the cool stuff I've got cooking up from TECORE.


Just curious, do you have a can holder somewhere on the left side?
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by Trail X » Mon May 28, 2012 11:28 pm

A cup holder? Nope...?
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