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shooting timelapse: how to minimize jerky movement of trees, etc.
How do I make my timelapse shots more fluid? I love the way the sky comes out, but moving water, trees, etc. look jerky. Are the ways to get longer than 1/24 – 350d exposure per frame? (Can I expose each frame for 1 or 2 seconds each?)
Also, is there a way to shoot more than a single frame using the timelapse mode? I’d like to shoot 3-5 frames as each interval and then “ghost” the high speed images (using 3-5 consecutive frames at various opacity to make the fast motion smear while the slo moving objects, like clouds, would seem crisp…) I know this probably doesn’t make any sense…
Another way to think of this: If I can shoot 5 frames at each interval, then in FCP I make this clip 5x speed. This would remove the additional 4 frames, giving me the initial frame of each 5. Then I take the original shot again, remove the first frame, make it 5x speed – this would give the me second frame of each set of 5. Do this for each of the 5 frames, creating 5 clips – layer these 5 clips over each other at something like 20% opacity… allowing the fast moving object (cars going through the frame) to “ghost” or smear.
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Hi Tony,
Although I never tried this yet, Greame Nattress has new plugins for FCP and one of them is G Time Lapse that looks like will do what you want.
Contact him and ask and post what you found out.
https://www.nattress.com/Products/BigBox/TimeTools/GTimeLapse.htmMariusz
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Thanks for the info.
Actually – I just did a test with 4 frame bursts & 16 frame bursts. When you use the 4x or 16x speed (and remove the right number of frames from the beginning… to get the 4th frames in each burst ot 12th frame in each burst) and then layer them all together in progressively increased opacity….
Wow, very cool effect. Everything is quick motion has a blurred/trailing effect, while the static objects are solid, and the clouds move through the frame in a fluid motion.
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[Tony Cope] “the ways to get longer than 1/24 – 350d exposure per frame? (Can I expose each frame for 1 or 2 seconds each?)”
You can get 1/2-second exposure if you put the camera in 2fps mode and set the shutter to 350.0 degrees.
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