Anyone interested in a HV10 time lapse sequence (50i or 25p)? I would only need a place to upload.

I would be innterested in this - dont mind 50i or 25p (or both!!!) How did you deinterlace?

How did you do the time lapse? What settings did you use?

Why not use filefactory? I know its a hassle to download from but I dont mind and its free and pretty easy to upload

me too !!.....

Me Three :).

Time lapse was done in Vegas, as well as deinterlacing.
I haven't used filefactory or any other upload space before, so I will give it a try ...

Alright, here you go:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/aba7a6/
http://www.filefactory.com/file/57e515/

I rendered it to 720p XVID to get the size down.

LOL !!

Great stuff.

:)

I thought you clip could do with some grading !! Here is a quick grade with a sweep between the 'before' and 'after'

http://www.filefactory.com/file/307e63/

Lee

Cool time lapse!

And forgive the newbie question, but does 'grading' mean color correction? Contrast enhancement? What editor did you use to do that?

Thanks,

Jim

Cool time lapse!

And forgive the newbie question, but does 'grading' mean color correction? Contrast enhancement? What editor did you use to do that?

Thanks,

Jim

Grading = make it look good.

Colour correction, brightness, contrast, blurring, sharpening even adding grain or vignetting the edges are all considered part of grading these days.

I did that in After Effects, although it is just the levels tool, so any old editing/compositing package can do the same.

Thank you, Lee, for your grading input. What filters did you use?

Here is another time lapse & freeze frame clip:

http://www.filefactory.com/file/57e515/

Thank you, Lee, for your grading input. What filters did you use?

Here is another time lapse & freeze frame clip:

Just the levels control.

Lee - could you give me any more details? I like what you have done.

Michael I think the second sample is particularly impressive - well done!
I'm a complete editing noob - any chance you could explain how you created the clips? Did you use a velocity envelope? I love the freeze frame and slo mo - how did you keep the chap at normal time in isolation?

Cheers
Fergus

Thank you, Fergus!

The editing was done in Vegas 7 using several (masked) layers of the same master shot.

Layer one: The (masked) old man in the center (normal speed)
Layer two: Time lapsed layer (factor 544) of the familiy around the old man (this was done using intermediate files, since Vagas can only speed up by factor 12 in one step)
Layer three: Freeze frame
Layer four: Slow motion (factor 4)

Thank you, Fergus!

The editing was done in Vegas 7 using several (masked) layers of the same master shot.

Layer one: The (masked) old man in the center (normal speed)
Layer two: Time lapsed layer (factor 544) of the familiy around the old man (this was done using intermediate files, since Vagas can only speed up by factor 12 in one step)
Layer three: Freeze frame
Layer four: Slow motion (factor 4)


Thanks Michael - I will have to invest some time in learning how to do this stuff!! How did you render to Xvid? Im not sure I have that option? Was this shot on the HV10? How long was the master shot?

Cheers

Fergus, the master shot is from the HV10 and about 40 minutes long. The render was done from Vegas 7.

Lee - could you give me any more details? I like what you have done.




Hi

I simply adjusted the levels and added a little sharpness (I think?). It was done very quickly and I didn't save the files !

But a quick re-grade later and here is a very rough idea of the kind of thing involved.

Attached is a screen shot for the levels panel in After Effects, there are four panels on display but in reality it is a single panel and you access the other three by pulling down the little selector at the top (circled in red).

http://img334.imageshack.us/img334/2619/levelsgz0.jpg

The controls I adjusted I have stuck a little green blob on.

The only guidance I would give you is to adjust the master 'RGB' levels first to get a good dynamic range (make the darkest areas black and the lightest areas white, instead of dark grey and light grey). See attached movie for a rough run through.

Level movie >> http://www.filefactory.com/file/90ce1a/

Lee

Thanks Lee - thats great
I havent really tried to use AE yet as I have mainly experimented with Vegas but I will give it a look.

I cant check the filefactory file at the mo since it says I have exceeded my allowance by downloading more than 1000mb (which I highly doubt!)

Just as an aside have you used the magic bullet 24p deinterlacing in AE? I just wondered if its worth the outlay?!

Thanks Lee - thats great
I havent really tried to use AE yet as I have mainly experimented with Vegas but I will give it a look.

I cant check the filefactory file at the mo since it says I have exceeded my allowance by downloading more than 1000mb (which I highly doubt!)

Just as an aside have you used the magic bullet 24p deinterlacing in AE? I just wondered if its worth the outlay?!


Magic bullet is very very good on some material, it is also very slow and very expensive, I only have the demo.

just seen the video - chees Lee fantastic stuff! So simple for such a great result!

Loved the way you sized the video! lol