Another video from my archive: I’ve done the road trip from Auckland to Wellington (New Zealand) many times but last time I did it I decided to setup my DV camera & record it… The camera has a time lapse mode where it shoots a short burst of video every 30 seconds, but once I got close to Wellington I switched it back to normal shooting & sped it up… So it starts in Queens Street in Auckland, I stopped in Taupo for lunch @1.50 & it ends up at my old studio in Maupuia Wellington….
I think I’m the person you’re always stuck behind and can never pass.
what was the dub track?
damn I cant find the answer to that question – I made the video back in 2004 & the audio is embedded in the QT…. will reply again when I do find it
I did that same run about a month ago (made a round trip) and on the trip up to Auckland it was just a brilliant day. Had thought about a doing a time laps video like you, but the thought only came to me a little after Taihape way and I turned my camera on only to find a dead battery. I see you had the same stink weather for your drive that we had here in Levin.
Found it! Both tracks are from Twilight Circus Dub SoundSystem album: Remixed:Dubwise. The video starts off with No Burial (Rob Smith Remix) then about Taupo I switch to Don’t Follow Babylon (Blood and Fire meets Wai Wan Remix- ‘Dub Shop Style)
Heres a link to the album on emusic
Found it Tim
Are you able to replace the video.
John
Tim, how do you mount your camera?
(I want to try something like this over the weekend.)
cheers
Dan
Oh that’s weird. My RSS feeder just alerted me to this post, EXACTLY a year later.
spooky!
John:
I shot that video using my old Sony DV camera, which had a sort-of timelapse mode where it records 5 seconds of video at intervals, i think every 30 seconds… so it wasnt ideal ie its not a linear timelapse – near the end of the video when i get to the motorway into wellington i switched it to shoot real time DV and just sped it up in Final Cut and accordingly it is much smoother/continuous whereas all the earlier footage has the jumps in it – I spent a while finding some music at the right tempo to make the cuts feel intentional but its still not as nice as proper timelapse…. Had I shot the whole thing at real speed & sped it up it would have been better but also would have consumed 8 DV tapes – I think it chewed through 3 DV tapes shooting it (& every battery I had!)
Dan:
I had the DV Camera on a tripod & wedged gear/bags around it so it wouldn’t move, I think the front two legs were half extended, whereas the third leg was only down a quarter & was resting on seat (or bit between front seats)
I’ll reshoot this next time I do that trip as I didnt have my DSLR back then – i shoot timelapse with a Canon 40D and use this intervalmeter to control it & set time between photos etc
http://www.amazon.com/Canon-TC80N3-Remote-Control-Cameras/dp/B00009XVA3
Also re mounting cameras in awkward places, two suggestions:
A gorillapod (you will have seen these before) or a cinesaddle (like a mini bean bag for cameras – i have the small SLR model))
Thanks Tim.
I don’t have such a nice camera. Just a Lumix LX3 point and shoot, with an attachment to hold down multi-burst infinitely. That takes about 2-3 shots per second.
Weird thing is, using multi-burst seems to suck the battery like crazy, a lot more than just shooting straight up HD video, so I might just speed up video.
I have one of the Gorillapods… maybe I can hang it from the mirror, and then turn the whole thing upside down in FCP. Just hope I don’t get pulled over.
Excellent Tim
I have a Sony Alpha 350 that I also have a 3rd party intervalmeter for.
How do you calculate the required frame rate for shooting time lapse??
Have to confess I’ve always just done it by guessing eg if its busy action such as Hachiko crossing in Tokyo then I shot a frame every 5 seconds – I figured if a bus drove by I wanted it in 3 or 4 frames, so next time one went by I counted….
I think the ‘proper’ way to work it out is to reverse engineer the final video eg if you want to make a 3 minute video at 24fps, and its 8 hours of potential shooting time you do the maths – its a bit early in the day for my brain to do the maths, but this post explains it easily:
http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/ultimate-guide-to-time-lapse-photography/