FrameRate Hack and Some Snow

SurJones

SurJones

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I spent the week up in Vail, Colorado, and shot A LOT of stuff, (more videos to come) I shot this before the small blizard hit. I would say this is very decentt quality. Shot @ 2fps/350d.


I have limited bandwidth. If someone can host this after you d-load it just throw up a link, I would of course greatly appreciate it.


PLEASE RIGHT CLICK AND D-LOAD... oh and comment.


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Thanks so much for the hosting HAAKON. Seriously you rock for that.

I selected a couple tracks and then choose the music to the clip. I could lie and say I scored the music, but well I am not going to :)

Vail/Avon/Edwards are amazing Billionaire/Millionaire towns. VERY as you said european.

I think the quality is decently comparable to drews 20D timelapes. Got to love the hack
 
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Very pink, glad to see the hack is working for you. Is that 720 or 1080? I wouldn't start comparing the HVX to Drews' DSLR timelapse footage , or any dslr timelapse footage for that matter. They are worlds away from eachother. The exposure time and resolution you get from a still camera is a lot closer to what you can do with traditional film cameras. I wish the hvx would let you choose any exposure time. That would be a nice implementation in the future. Keep it up dude.
 
dogcat: They are worlds apart, but again, decently comparable. Find me an HD camera that can do similar. Also you can only shoot 720pn with vari-frame rates. Also I noticed it was pink, but I thought it might be due to the neon lights and over head lights. I always flip to Auto to check and see what it does and then I tweak to my prefrences. I NEVER use Auto. Dont know what circumstances I would need it, so I just shoot man mode. The colors were the same when I went to Auto mode, and so I switched back to Man, went about my fun

ARYK: That is funny you picked up on JoyElectric. I dont know many people who know of them

Thanks for all the kind words. I opened another thread with more videos of my trip.
 
This clip brings up a question I've wondered for awhile.

Anyone familiar with the scenes in movies (can't name particular ones, except Blade: Trinity) where the action is timelapsed around a subject, while said subject is moving in normal or even slowed motion? This is a technique I'd do anything to learn how to do (digitally, I mean).
 
SurJones said:
I would think it would be Green Screen and then married over to the curent frames?
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Well I've seen some pretty intricate shots using the technique -- I know they could be green-screened, but I still think it would be cool to be able to do it without a massive green-room and 3D masking capabilities -- too good to be true, I suppose.
 
The only way to do it without a greenscreen would be to have the subject (i.e. main actor) move fast while the surroundings (i.e. other actors) move a little slower all shot in a higher framerate ( I would guess between 30-48 fps). This doesn't take into account explosions, debris or other inanimate objects that can only move in real time. I suppose you could fake it by just having the actor approximate his regular physical movements at a very high speed, film it in slo-mo and cross your fingers. Good luck getting a usable take. That's quite a request for an actor that probably will have little to no choreography training.

From a physics standpoint (excluding the methods above) this shot cannot be done without a greenscreen and actor marks.
 
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The only way to do it without a greenscreen would be to have the subject (i.e. main actor) move fast while the surroundings (i.e. other actors) move a little slower all shot in a higher framerate ( I would guess between 30-48 fps). This doesn't take into account explosions, debris or other inanimate objects that can only move in real time. I suppose you could fake it by just having the actor approximate his regular physical movements at a very high speed, film it in slo-mo and cross your fingers. Good luck getting a usable take. That's quite a request for an actor that probably will have little to no choreography training.

From a physics standpoint (excluding the methods above) this shot cannot be done without a greenscreen and actor marks.
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Wouldn't that be reversed? Like the shot in garden State where Braf sits on the couch while everything moves quickly around him? You would accomplish this by having the actor go through his action much slower and film at a slow rate like 12fps. Then when played back normal the main subject is moving at normal speed while everything else is accelerated.

Also it's much easier to slow down your actions than speed them up. If filmed at 12fps the actor would just approximate half speed to achive normal speed in playback.
 
yea, I was going to mention Garden State, and even the MTV be yourself comapane, but that is not what Zac wanted. He wants his actor to move Real time, not look like a Stop motion character, seriously no on can move aproxomite in speeds when doing that. But you see music videos do it all the Time as well, walking normally and everyone at 2fps.

edit: I just re-read, and sounds prickish. Not intended :)
 
SurJones said:
yea, I was going to mention Garden State, and even the MTV be yourself comapane, but that is not what Zac wanted. He wants his actor to move Real time, not look like a Stop motion character, seriously no on can move aproxomite in speeds when doing that. But you see music videos do it all the Time as well, walking normally and everyone at 2fps.

edit: I just re-read, and sounds prickish. Not intended :)
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Yeah it's kind of half way in between real life and stop motion. The music video thing is green screen. It often even looks very green screen if you ask me.
 
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