• Panasonic Cameras

  Varicam Timelapse???Best way to do it

  Posted by Sean Fine on May 9, 2006 at 1:05 am

  I have been tryiing to figure out the Varicam TImelapse functions, but am having trouble. I tried understandign it through the Goodmans guide, but still ahving trouble. Can anyone recomend a good website that tlaks abotu this or offer me some information on the best setup.

  Thanks,

  Sean

  Steve Mahrer replied 20 years, 2 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
• 1 Reply

• 

  Steve Mahrer

  May 9, 2006 at 2:35 am

  Sean:

  A brief recap of how it works: In the VariCam we perform small assemble edits on tape during time lapse recording process. Each Interval Rec time is a minimum of 10 frames, the Interval Pause Time is the time between time lapse image capture. This paramter is up to you to determine, (hint, think film!). E.G. if you have a need for 30 seconds of content at 24fps, that’s 720 frames. If you know the sunset or whatever required event will last 2 hours, that’s 7200 seconds x 24 or 172800 frames. The interval Pause Time to 172800 / 720 = 240 frames or 10 seconds.

  Try this, set the Interval Rec time to 10 frames. Set the Camera Frame Rate to 6fps, N.B. turn the shutter off to reduce jitter in the content. As per the above, set the Interval Pause Time to 10 seconds. The camera will now capture an image once every 10 seconds, the slow 6fps frame rate means that all 10 frames recorded on tape in once interval are indentical. The FRC unit or FCP FRC Sw module will exract one frame per duration to provide a smooth motion effect. The above settings will enable you to truncate 2 hours of time inot 30 seconds smoothly.

  Have fun, PRACTICE and think frilm!

  Steve Mahrer (Panasonic Broadcast)

Reply to this Discussion! Login or Sign Up