Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 It's done at something like one shot every two seconds, so with skill and a deft touch, you could manually reposition a tripod mounted camera with a pan & tilt head - use the pan index marks to achieve a consistent "sweep" round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevip6 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Just to add, a rotating telescope tripod head isn't a complex or overly expensive piece of equipment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhouse Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 the panoramic shorts are easily done with photoshop just by taking multiple photos. Could your wife please explain how to do a panning video timelapse shot using Photoshop? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevip6 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 It's done at something like one shot every two seconds, so with skill and a deft touch, you could manually reposition a tripod mounted camera with a pan & tilt head - use the pan index marks to achieve a consistent "sweep" round. I agree it's possible but you're talking about very small rotations each time. I would say it's very hard to do that as smoothly as this was done manually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Just to add, a rotating telescope tripod head isn't a complex or overly expensive piece of equipment Absolutely, and makes it much easier! But I have seen some stunning time lapse work done with manually moved pan heads on a tripod and with very simple, non-motorised "dollies" made from all sorts things, including skate-boards! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevip6 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Absolutely, and makes it much easier! But I have seen some stunning time lapse work done with manually moved pan heads on a tripod and with very simple, non-motorised "dollies" made from all sorts things, including skate-boards! I'm definitely not arguing with that, I've seen some amazing work with the most basic of kit but from looking at the way this was done with the rotating and people walking in the shot I would definitely put money on it being and automated head. If I'm wrong then hats off to the guy cause it's awesome compositionally even with the gadgets! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket_rabbit Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Could your wife please explain how to do a panning video timelapse shot using Photoshop? I was on about the use of software instead of specialist hardware. Let's not forget that a video is just lots of still images viewed sequentially at high speed. It's certainly not an automated head. You are getting confused because the video is speeded up and it looks like a static point shot is fluid motion. Remember that a tripod can easily allow movement in a single plane whilst keeping the others static. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket_rabbit Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 This was done with normal SLR cameras. Looks like the video camera is on a sloping rail, but it's actually many different static camera sequenced in a way to give that impression Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 God that Click here's almost as bad as a big red "Do Not Press" button. :angry: :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bean Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Great video, inspires me to put my Westfield back together and get on the road Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevip6 Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 I was on about the use of software instead of specialist hardware. Let's not forget that a video is just lots of still images viewed sequentially at high speed. It's certainly not an automated head. You are getting confused because the video is speeded up and it looks like a static point shot is fluid motion. Remember that a tripod can easily allow movement in a single plane whilst keeping the others static. I know this is going off topic somewhat but I think you are wrong. It's not a speeded up video at all but a timelapse video which is (as you mentioned later) a series of single exposures taken at set durations (normally with a longish exposure time). To get the panning effect a single camera is used usually on a telescope head that rotates at a set speed to capture the timelapse whilst panning or rotating. As I mentioned earlier, it's possible to do this manually without an automated tripod head but to get a motion that smooth the head would need to be rotate by a very small angle between each shot and the operator would need to sit by the camera rotating this small amount over the course of the entire shot, which could be an hour or so depending on how you want to set the timelapse. The matrix shot is a very different technique which as you mentioned uses a number of cameras set in a ring around the subject Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Incidentally, if you like "budget" Heath-Robinson gadgets for this sort of thing, this is what the owner of one of the GoPro forums came up with. GoPro Pan timer Really effective, I understand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Chairman Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 Unfortunately I can't remember the guy's Blatchat username, and he doesn't seem to get on You Tube that often, or we could ask him. (I'm just plain interested in the making of this sort of thing as I'm making the painful transition from still to moving pictures at the moment ). Here's the nearest snippet from him as to how it was done - I used a piece of software called Timelapse Assembler for the mac to make the time lapse footage.From memory I believe I was shooting at 1 shot every 2 seconds and transformed it to 30fps, meaning that a 10 second clip was gleaned from about 10 minutes of filming, so it really didn't take all that long A link to the guy's channel clicky not watched them all, but there's four vid's up there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Redpath - WSCC Membership Secretary Posted February 23, 2012 Author Share Posted February 23, 2012 Sorry for any confusion, its not my video, I'm Westfield through and through, but still makes me want to get the westi out, one of the better vids around, I personally think its great, watched it far too many times......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocket_rabbit Posted February 23, 2012 Share Posted February 23, 2012 God that Click here's almost as bad as a big red "Do Not Press" button. :angry: :laugh: Hehehe, yeah I know it has caught a few people out I should remove it, just that I was in a bad mood when I put it up and felt like annoying people Kevip - The video doesn't represent real time, would you agree? It is representing time at an increased rate, would you agree? So we can say that it has been speeded up, would you agree? So what we are left with is this - as long as the camera can be moved in discreet repeatable movements along only one plane, we would get the desired effect, would you agree? Yes, the martix was not the best example. Try this one: the characters in the clip above are not robotically controlled Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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