My new favorite clip

kelmedia 12 Mar 2009 06:12


I like this one a lot. Took me a long time to figure out how to do a good galaxy. I wish the background stars showed through a little more in the preview though.
mwd86 12 Mar 2009 19:06

I've been enjoying my time lapses of downtown LA. It's always nice when they come together well.
dapoopta 12 Mar 2009 19:20
Very cool mwd! how do you get your movement so smooth?
stefgo 12 Mar 2009 21:34
Ken Burns Effect, applied to a video :).

Nice shot! I´m wondering what hardware resources are necessary to do something like this smoothly? My actual PC would probably "die" right away, but I´ll upgrade soon.

Thanks,
Stefan
zygistudio 12 Mar 2009 21:48
Hi!
I can guess that time-lapse of LA with clouds (mwd86) you can do from ~10Mp still images using AE, but may be I'm wrong.
Zygis
kelmedia 12 Mar 2009 23:26
zygistudio is right. It could definitely be done that way in AE. The picture size is much larger than 1920x1080, so you put them into a comp the size of the pictures, open up a 1920x1080 comp and keyframe a pan in the direction you want the "camera" to be moving.

Very nicely done by mwd86 by the way.
ironstrike 12 Mar 2009 23:41
Ive made some fake scenes with AE
but if you want to do it naturally you have to have a motion controled crane like this guy: http://www.timelapsecrane.com/home.html
stefgo 13 Mar 2009 00:57
Thanks Zygis and Kel!

I have used this technique before with 10 MP stills (not for stock), but for doing a supersized timelapse and panning in it, my PC is not fast enough. That´s why my question was a little directed towards the hardware configuration (cpu,frequ.,ram...). Would a 2009 ed. 17 inch MacBookPro do the job as well (in case I buy one)? Or only a Quad core PC or MAC Pro?

Great video, thanks Mark! A fast computer is probably "a little" cheaper though...(but you can charge more if you use the crane :).

Cheers,
Stefan

PS: I moved this question to the tech discussion, to avoid another hijack :)...
Hdrskies 13 Mar 2009 01:02
Wow thanks for the link ironstrike, great time lapse shots !
ok now i want to play too :)
talking about motion time lapse here is one my favorite, recently added one :

dapoopta 13 Mar 2009 01:49
How did you do that one Komkaneda? using a jib and a still camera?