GH3 : 'Watchtower of Turkey'

Very well made piece with a lot of emotion and feeling. Also a great example of what can be done even though the artist didn't have the latest and greatest camera. The GH3 is still an amazing camera capable to really expressing an artists vision. Often we forget about what our cameras are already capable of doing with the right content and the right story. This is a film that will hold up even when there is a GH5, GH6 and GH7.

Great article on how FCPX was used as well. I switched to FCPX awhile ago now and will likely never look back. Once you wrap your head around how it works it really gets out of the way and just lets you create. It isn't perfect but I have personally never had so much fun editing.
 
Such stunning work, I want to know how he did those wonderful hyperlapses. The cinematography in general was just phenomenal but those hyperlapses added tons of energy to it. The editing was spectacular as the composition and sound design. Just, 10/10. There's nothing that could have been better about it (though I'm sure the creator would disagree).
 
blazer003 said:
Such stunning work, I want to know how he did those wonderful hyperlapses. The cinematography in general was just phenomenal but those hyperlapses added tons of energy to it. The editing was spectacular as the composition and sound design. Just, 10/10. There's nothing that could have been better about it (though I'm sure the creator would disagree).
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That may be partially true due to the amazing re-timing tools in FCPX. The artist also shot some sequences as a time lapse in photo mode on the GH3. Really an amazing feature many of us never make use of as long as one doesn't need audio. Being able to shoot larger than 4k time lapse in RAW even on a GH3 is pretty darn sweet.
 
blazer003 said:
I want to know how he did those wonderful hyperlapses.
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From the interview link Bern posted above:

Hyper lapses are photo time lapses shot over a very long distance to create a sense of tracking. Usually you use a tripod or a stabilizing rig to keep the framing correct. But these were shot hand held, so the photo sequences jumped quite a bit and I needed to re-frame them before I started editing.

I used the warp stabilizer in After Effects to do this. Reframing requires quite a bit of zooming into the images to avoid black borders. But as the photos were high resolution this did not affect the quality too much.

I exported the image sequences to ProRes files, which I imported in FCP X. While editing I added a second stabilizing pass to further smooth out the jumps, and I applied speed ramps to make the hyper lapses play with the rhythm of the music.
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