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5 hour timeramp
I have a 2 meter lava lamp and it takes 5 hours to warm up so i was going to film it for 5 hours and then time remap it down to like 30 secs. wat i need is that for one i cant lash out on dv tapes at the moment(no cash) and i cant go out and buy a huge harddrive. Is there a way i can record straight into the computer with my 100gig i have. I estimate uncompressed it will be way too much. i was wondering if premier or sumthin could bring the footage in a bit more compressed than usual (real tiem recording). any suggestions how to do this? or another idea?
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do you have or can you get hold of a digital stills / SLR camera? I know that my Canon can be hooked up to the computer and then set to take a photo at set intervals. You could set it to do one every minute or so and then sequence them together in AE.
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https://www.seriousmagic.com/dvrrecording2.cfm maybe? has recording straight to hdd features
a free trial to…maybe give that a go//lessevolvedman
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Timelapse is a funny thing. You use a simple math statement to figure out how many frames of video it takes to display a known length of finished video to show a known length of compressed time.
If it takes five hours to heat up, why would you need to shoot five hours? It’s not doing anything for most of that time. all you need is a single still image for at least three of those of five hours.
bogiesan
This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”
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incorrect..
those big lava lamps slowly heat up all weird and look like brains which would look awesome//lessevolvedman
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DV is not uncompressed, it’s 5:1 so it’s pretty compressed to start with, but if you are working with DV anyways, there are shareware timelapse programs that will take your camera’s firewire stream and sample frames from it at an interval of your choice and write those frames to a QT movie.
But if you want the best looking images, I’d do like Duff said and use a controlled SLR still camera.
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oath less evolved the first hour is slow but hard shapes still form …which is great
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