Will this look realistic ?

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

All of your background shots are time lapse footage. That in itself doesn’t look “realistic,” for the motion has been sped up significantly. Or do you want the flying carpet to appear like it was part of the time lapse? If so, it will fly by rapidly like the cars in the clips.

For realism, I’d say you first need regular speed, non-time lapse footage.

As for the rotoscoping, the less stuff there is in the background the better off you are. The shots with plain blue sky backgound are the easiest to extract the flying carpet from. The ones where the carpet is in front of land will have to be done much more manually and will take much longer. The last close-up shot with the hair flying around is probably the biggest challenge.

A third issue is that the flying carpet shots go in and out of focus, so either the backgrounds need to do the same at those spots or they need to be edited so that doesn’t happen. Also, some of the carpet shots have to be tracked and stabilized, with this amount of rapid shake it is going to cause some frames to appear blurry. Which means that either this has to be cut so it doesn’t happen — or the backgrounds need to be “reverse tracked” so that the same camera shake happens in the whole shot, which is the more realistic-looking option.

Other than that, a VFX artist should be able to make the images look like they belong.

[Stefan Schmidt]

Hi Kalle,

thanks a lot for your advice. The background speed will be adjusted . It`s really tough to find approbriate
background shots from different angles to make the whole clip more vivid. What do you mean my carpet shots need to be tracked and can I do this with Final Cut Pro x ?

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Tracking means following the motion in order to either match the motion or to remove (stabilize) or smooth out the motion. When the camera is moving or shaking, you need to do one or the other (stabilize or make the other footage follow the same motion) to composite other footage with it.

I don’t use FCP, but googling for it told me you can.

[Stefan Schmidt]

Hey Kalle,

thanks again for this lecture —what is your hour`s rate, in case I need a third party for this project ?
Would you have any recent works that I can look at ?

I used to play along time ago as a freelance piano -player on the Sylia-cruise-line between Helsinki and Stockholm.
So I have a couple of memories about Helsinki.

Cheers from
Stefan

[Tero Ahlfors]

[Stefan Schmidt] “The background speed will be adjusted .”

You can’t slow down timelapses to make normal footage. You’re missing a lot of frames that happened between the interval that the camera shot the stills at.

[Stefan Schmidt]

Tero,

thanks A LOT for this essential advice —I was 100% sure that I just slow them down and everything is fine.
Thank God I still didn`t buy anything –where are you from by the way ?

Regards
Stefan

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

Hi Stefan,

Hey that’s great, freelance pianist on the Silja-line! Where do you reside nowadays? My wife’s a jazz singer, always on the lookout for good pianists. 🙂

As Tero pointed out, you can’t slow down time-lapse footage to look normal (well, you could, but you’d have to take one frame and reanimate everything that moves from scratch, which would be very challenging and time consuming. It’s really the last method I’d use and only when there aren’t any other options). So you’ll definitely need footage that is normal speed to begin with.

I’m pretty fully booked at the moment, but you can find my contact information here if it turns out you need help with the project. Drop me a line if you want to and we can see if we make schedules meet:

https://www.mielikuvitus.org/english/contact.html

That’s my graphic design website so doesn’t really have any motion imaging samples, so here’s a link to a product presentation animation I made recently:

https://youtu.be/_auZWRC9LDQ

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[Tero Ahlfors]

[Stefan Schmidt] ” –where are you from by the way ?”

Surprisingly: Helsinki, Finland.

[Kalleheikki Kannisto]

The place to be 🙂