Here is a quick teaser for a timelapse video I will have up later this week.

Ok it’s not really a teaser as the image pretty much gives the whole thing away.

Enjoy!

Making timelapse videos in the middle of winter is not an ideal situation, but it turned out not to bad.

You can see the CN Tower in the background on the left and Don Mills and Shepperd intersection in the foreground.

The timelapse was 490 frames over 26 minutes.

My first attempt at making a timelapse video.

I recently purchased an intervalometer from Linkdelight (works great, cheap too!) so I was pretty excited to do some timelapse photography.

My settings.

1/20 sec

f.27

iso 100

1 frame every 10 seconds for 20 mins

This is my last post till the new year

Happy Holidays!

Thanks to the great tutorial – http://greyscalegorilla.com/blog/2009/12/shatter-and-destruction/

Check the comments in this link for a link to a Windows version of the plugin.

Created from my blog using the Wordle word cloud generator

http://www.wordle.net/

Inspiration – A great timelapse video shot in Ottawa!

I really need to get a intervalometer so I can start doing these kind of videos.

The highlights for my first HD project. This was shot on a Sony XDCAM Ex3 which is file based HD.

The workflow is pretty simple but kind of a pain when it comes time for output.

Ingesting the media is simple. In Avid MC 4 all you have to do is copy the footage to your HDD then in Avid go to File -> Import AMA volume and select your folder. Its a pretty quick and easy process.

In Avid MC 3 you have to export your clips from Sony Clip Browser as MXF files and then import them into Avid. This takes forever if you have a lot of media.

For outputting you have 2 options.

1. If you are outputting back to tape (such as DvCam) You have to make a video mixdown to SD res and then output from that. This can also be done for outputting to Dvd or Blu-ray (HD mixdown) as it is quicker than option 2

2. Export Quicktime movie - I haven’t experimented to much with this but a 2 min video exported at full HD res came in at 15gbs.

Option 1 gave me a lot of problems, I kept getting decompression errors but was able to get rid of most of them by switching back and forth from timelines and freeing up some HDD space seemed to help as well. But in the end I had 1 frame that kept getting the error no matter what I did, so I ended up having cover it up with another shot.

Farm House

Out for a nice fall drive today and got this nice old farm house. The great thing is that this wasn’t the original reason for stopping to take photos.