How did they do this? I can't think!

My guess is that this effect can be mimic in After Effects with multiple layers of the clip playing at various time.
 
i'd guess a motion controlled camera that shoots the same shot over and over and each time the skater leaves a second later. but that would present issues with the sky.
 
Its weird, every time i think i have figured it out, something doesn't add up - like the sky.

Its almost as if they have taken the image of the rider, lasoo'd him photoshop style and then just re-run the same footage via some compositing. . . . .

Would be good to find out the company that made it, but can't find it anywhere.
 
could be motion control..... and the sky could be done by making a second video layer, cropping it down to just the size of the person + a little of the background..... and move that left as the camera pans right (by the way, the clouds don't move, the camera does). Or there is no motion control rig, and it's just the same video cropped and painted to remove overlapping. Or the whole things could be done with a green a screen, duplicating the pass from the green screen multiple times and then pull in the background behind that.

I think they shot each one once, and then duplicated them, wether that be with green screen or actual location, I can't really tell.

Here's a higher res copy.
http://www.dvsskate.com/video/daewon_echo.html
 
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This is how I would have done it:

One large (35mm negative) wide shot of the skateboarder going off the ramp.

Camera is LOCKED DOWN.

I would then take that locked down shot and extract the skater by singling out the moving part of the image.

It would be the opposite of a motion key.

Example of what a motion key is.
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After duplicating the skater various times across the wide shot, I would crop in for HD resolution (was working on 2k scan from 35mm print) and use a digital 'pan' to simulate the dolly move across the skate-scape.

That seems like the easiest approach.
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1) Shoot performer against green/blue bg (ramps etc to match location geometry) with controlled camera

2) Shoot desired background with controlled camera

3) Comp in multiple iterations of skater footage with suitable frame offset

4) Add shadows
 
Well it might be a yawn to you, but there is obviously some discussion on this whole thing. We have had someone suggest 35mm cameras, and now 15mins in after effects.

Would you mind taking 15mins and making a short clip that has the same effect? Because i don't see how a track matte can replicate all those shots and line them up in this way.

Please don't just answer a question like that and move on - if you have something to share, then share it. . . . . . :)

It'll be much appreciated!
 
The person who mentioned after effects (I think) is the same process as what I mentioned.

The reason I said 35mm is because it is the ideal. This is because when I would enlarge the video to include the artificial 'dolly' move I could still master in 1080.

You could do it on whatever format you want... 16mm even. Digital works, but you need to be prepared for a resolution drop.
 
yeah, it's definitely just the same clip repeated. You basically take the shot, locked down. then duplicate it in AE and mask around the guy. Then duplicate that layer a bunch of times and offset about 10 frames for each duplicate. Then precomp it all, scale it up and do a fake camera move by translating the precomp through the shot, from left to right, up to down, or even a slight push in by zooming. Or a combination of it all.
 
As far as AE goes and its potential - is this effect a hard one to accomplish? I have tried looking for tutorials on this, but have had no luck. . . .
 
no, it's not hard. Can be time consuming, depending on the character's movements and the duration of the shot, but not difficult.
 
I'll see if I can replicate this in AE sometime this week. Will get back to you and describe how I did it if I can get it to work...just no time to do it! haha
 
Daewon Song just has a lot of look alikes, thats how they did it. just kidding, but I am pretty sure Ty Evans made this, He's probably the biggest skateboard filmer, if you can get a hold of him i'm sure he will tell you.
 
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