HOW is this possible ?

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Jarred,

Yeah, it's definitely easy to simultaneously shoot various still cams. The hard part is piecing it together and getting a stable result. The TimeTrack systems (FWIW I was the company VP) underwent serious engineering to get close registration. The very first array (built in Dayton's living room with cam bodies he cast himself, using Kodak lenses procurred during a successful dumpster dive in Mexico City!) was set up to expose one long strip of film that moved exactly one frame through 80 lined-up gates, which was then played back sequentially, giving the time-freeze effect.

Basically, the array thing boils down to: the farther apart the discrete POV's, the gnarlier the softward interpolation burden. This has improved enormously over the last decade but still, without really clean registration, the piecing together/rendering is a nightmare.

Also: I mentioned the BP commercial on the Movia site. I see Dayton took it down. There is, however a new thing up, worth checking out. Very trippy: www.movia.com/time_space.html
 
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Anyone ever tried it with a bunch of DV cameras in an array? Of course still cameras would be cheaper, and all of your cameras would have to match...ok, dumb idea.
 
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we did this in "Art History" using 2 DVX100's.. not really an array but we mounted the cameras on a horizontal axis and was able to handheld a basketball sequence... this gave us the option of doing a freeze in the middle of action and panning to the second camera. Was very effective, and worked great for the opening titles. It was sure a pain in the ass though to not only color correct but also fix parallax issues.
 
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Speaking of ART HISTORY, MR. Land

When are we going to have the opportunity to buy it?!
 
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Well, the actual film is locked, we just gotta finish some of the extra stuff for the DVD. Our Director is gallivanting around in London right now but when he gets back it should be a couple weeks.
 
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[[ What happens is a 35mm film camera dollys along until the waterballoon breaks, then a 35mm still camera array is triggered.

Obviously they would have to do a few takes(like all day) to get the timing right between when the balloon hits the talent, and the array effect starts. ]]

Unless they somehow trigger a pressure sensor taped to the back of the talent with the first water baloon!

Plus, I would use still cameras in "burst" mode so I get at least 3 shots per second to choose from.

I presume the realviz plugin was used to smooth the stills and maybe give the illusion of using more still cameras (like, 60 instead of 30 if it can interpolate every 2nd frame)

The effect was nice, but I would have used a 2nd film camera to avoid the "jump back" when the frozen time comes back to life.

something like

F-S-S-S-S-....-S-F
where F=Film camera and S=still camera.
Right now they have only
F-S-S-S-S-...-S and after the last S, the "view" jumps back to the film camera which is confusing.

Regards
-- Andre

See my first short at http://weeklydv.com/short.php?id=125
 
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Unless they somehow trigger a pressure sensor taped to the back of the talent with the first water baloon!
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Or when the first film dolly move ended it trips a sensor firing the still camera array ;D
 
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some other cheaper-less sophisticated slomo interpolation software solutions besides "Twixtor" and "ReTimer" would be "Motion Perfect" by Dynapel, and "TimeMaster 2.0" from Pheonix Tools.
..in the matrix 2+3 movies, a series of 5 hd cameras was set in a circle around the action instead of still cameras.
 
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