24p timelapse

KingVidiot

KingVidiot

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I didn't find a satisfactory answer to this one, so I thought I would post another question.

Is decent 24p (a) timelapse possible in-camera?

It is a function of speed-up in post instead?

Would there be any special settings to assist in the quality of the timelapse?
 
I feel speeding up in post was much smoother than the in-camera for what I was doing. The in-camera might be fine for a scene that was very long, like an entire sunrise/sunset cycle or something. Try it out for yourself and you will see if it works for your purpose.
 
I was talking about interval recording. I didn't find it very useful. I just recorded 20 minutes of footage at 24p and then sped it up in post.
 
Hmm Im not sure your using 24p as interval recording isnt available to 24p on the dvx......
 
ncje said:
Hmm Im not sure your using 24p as interval recording isnt available to 24p on the dvx......
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If you are refering to tigeba's post, I believe he means he recorded normally using 24p and then sped it up in post to make the time-lapse.
 
tigeba said:
I was talking about interval recording. I didn't find it very useful. I just recorded 20 minutes of footage at 24p and then sped it up in post.
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Hansk ... ah yeah your right sorry.. missed it the first time.
 
dvpixl said:
speeding up 24p footage kills the look of 24p.
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I'm not sure I undertand you. Why does it kill the look?

If I speed up footage shot at 24p, 30p or even another rate and place it in a 24fps timeline I will have the 24fps look. Now the image quality might be different because of the conversion process and possible blending.
 
HansK said:
I'm not sure I undertand you. Why does it kill the look?
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Time Lapse is a function of a series of snapshots representing a change in time strung into a sequence. Speeding up the footage just forces it it look fast. Speeding up the shot doesn't capture the grace and beauty of true interval shooting. Plus playing with the intervals, camera settings, and playback framerate gives one the ultimate control. I will also give you a variety of looks that will surpass what speeding up footage will give you.
 
mediamilitia said:
Time Lapse is a function of a series of snapshots representing a change in time strung into a sequence. Speeding up the footage just forces it it look fast. Speeding up the shot doesn't capture the grace and beauty of true interval shooting.
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I can film a continuous shot for a specific amount time. Then take take only one frame at a specific interval and create a new timeline using those frames. That's speeding up the shot. It's more work but it does a good job. How is that less graceful and have less beauty than "true" interval shooting?

I'm honestly trying to understand you here.

Also, are you speaking about true interval recording that captures only 1 frame per interval? I ask because the DVX can only capture a minimum of 15 frames per interval. I will still need to clean it up in post to reduce it to 1 frame per interval.

Thanks.
 
No in that case you are infact selecting the desired intervals. I was generally speaking about 30 minutes of footage simply sped up 20,000 times in final cut pro and calling it timelapse. If you got the patients to cut out frame by frame...Then I gotta say you are more of a man them me...Keep it up.
 
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