it’s been a while since i shot my last time lapse clip and i am happy to finally present the candle clip that i intended to shoot for a very long time:
the clip consists of 3100 jpgs combined using virtualdub and exported as an xvid avi file. it runs at 36 frames per second with the pictures being taken each one second apart.
the equipment I used was:
canon eos 5d mkii @ iso 100
tokina at-x pro 100 f/2.8 @ f/8.0
tc-80n3 timer remote @ 1second intervals
manfrotto tripod & head
the pictures were taken in jpg form to save space, then imported to lightroom, resized to 1280×853 and then exported. virtualdub was used to merge the jpg files into a video clip with the nine inch nails song “36 ghosts iv” as atmospheric background.
total working time (shooting and post processing): about 3 hours.
i might produce a full hd version of the clip later down the line and release it via bittorrent.
i ran into some troubles yesterday as i was trying to convert some full hd video footage of the canon eos 5d mkii to be used on youtube in high definition.
on the mac i used imovie hd which performed quite well when it came to editing, though it lacks some editing features which is why i chose to try out some other editing tools.
it came down to this:
adobe premiere elements 7 (trial) versus apple imovie hd (ilife suite that came bundled with my macbook pro in 2007)
this is one of my earlier tutorials i pulled off my old website.
it doesn’t show the lightroom ui that i used to have on the pictures with “making of: fade” but it shouldn’t be too hard to follow.
as of yesterday i have a new computer and today i started to move as much of my stuff as possible from the old machine to the new one.
here is how it turned out.
i truly believe that by giving away knowledge of a particular item of interest will increase the overall value of the items that you will get back in the end.
what do i mean by that?
i made a picture that i called “fade” – people started asking about how i did that. the process is really simple, yet the outcome makes you look.
seems like it’s time for a making of… (more…)
