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Cool time lapse
I want to do a short time lapse. The camera was really still looking down at a far away town with moving cars, etc. I’m wondering what I might do to make it look interesting (obviously other than up the speed in FCP to 300 or 400%)?
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Time lapse is nothing more than speeding up time by making the clip play faster, or by taking single frame exposures at less than 24 or 30 fps… so speeding up the footage will simulate a time lapse exposure. Don’t think there’s a “better” way to do this.
Jerry
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I was wondering if there was any effects that might make it look interesting.. like is there a blur, etc..
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Don’t think a blur would do much but soften the picture. If you wanted the car lights to say trail or something, you need to actually shoot it with a long exposure to get that effect I’d think. Few if any video cameras can do this. Film cameras can. DSLR’s probably could pull this off too. I think that’s what you’re after, right?
Jerry
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Yeah, that would have been good. It was just shot with a DV camcorder. So I guess the only thing I can do to make it look interesting is speeding it up.. thanks.
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[zeke meginsky] “It was just shot with a DV camcorder”
Try setting the shutter-speed to 1/30 or 1/15 instead of the default 1/60 (asuming you are in NTSC-land).
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Good idea, I’ll try that next time. Thanks.
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You can apply simulated a tilt-shift lens effect to the existing time-lapse footage, which tricks the eye into thinking it is looking at a tiny model instead of real life… There are plug-ins for this, but you can pretty easily make it from scratch yourself.
Basically, you copy the footage to a second track, stacked in synch with the original. You apply some amount of gaussian blur to the new track and in between the two tracks goes a gradient filter applied to the alpha channel. You will have to play with the positioning and other controls for the gradient, as this will change the overall effect. For more hints, check youtube for tilt-shift effect videos.
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Crumplepop has a plug-in called Shrink Ray that does a great job of adding tilt shift to your video.
Tony Brittan
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In addition you could also add motion blur to the shot (once its sped up) in FCP under MOTION tab, then Motion Blur, play with the settings to taste.
Thanks
K
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Things like motion trails might be neat, etc. Lots of things to play around with.
I’ve had really neat effects with sunsets doing chunks of footage with fades to create a time-lapse without speeding up the footage ridiculously which looks dumb IMO.
Regards,
Chris
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