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Advantage: Time lapse vs fast motion?
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A while back I saw a video that included a pan in a time lapse segment. They used an astro-track drive that allows telescopes to track stars to achieve the panning motion. It was shot with a DSLR.
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What’s your time lapse subject?
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We don’t know yet. We’ll be overseas and we’ll just be looking for opportunities to add visual variety to the pieces. Probably some will include city scenes that are distinctive to a particular location; others hopefully will include customer industrial scenes, etc.
After reviewing everything on this thread we’re going for the belt-and-suspenders approach. We have the HDX 900 and we’ll also be shooting the series of high res images with a digital SLR. Preceded by an adequate amount of testing.
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RIght, so if you are doing 20-30 minutes burts of traffic and that kind of thing, I’d just shoot it with 900.
If you are going to be set up for days/weeks a DSLR is the way to go.
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Generally I agree. But I have both technical and logistical considerations. I do like the idea of imparting some subtle “camera moves” to the time-lapse in post, which the large SLR images would allow me to do while maintaining high res. Also, using the SLR for time lapse would allow us to continue shooting elsewhere with the 900 while our time-lapse set-ups are being monitored by a production assistant. That would be valuable time. I would also save some time after the shoot by reducing the amount of Firestore download time.
We’ll test everything out and see what we come up with. Thanks for your thoughts and advice, Jeremy, Mark and others.
Ron
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One advantage to shooting it in real time and speeding it up in post is that if you have a distraction moving through the frame i.e a bird that moves through a TL sequence of clouds and ends up as an annoying black streak, you can edit out a few frames without impacting the quality of the TL sequence.
Craig
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