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Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« on: December 19, 2010, 12:58:54 AM »
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It's quick and dirty, but gets the point across. I posted some other pics at my blog.

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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #1 on: December 19, 2010, 04:00:20 AM »
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I would love to be able to do that!

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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #2 on: December 19, 2010, 10:43:18 AM »
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I was surprised at how much the camera moved in between shots. Next time I try a time lapse, I won't take the memory card out except at the end. I took out the card several times on this movie and the camera movement was not obvious at the time, but annoying in the video.

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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #3 on: December 19, 2010, 03:24:46 PM »
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You might want to look for time lapse software. Hook up the camera to a laptop and it runs itself.

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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2010, 04:50:54 PM »
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You might want to look for time lapse software. Hook up the camera to a laptop and it runs itself.

I've thought about it several times, but never pulled the trigger. I'm afraid if I get the software, the next thing I know that is all I'd be doing. Good bye layout.

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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2010, 05:43:45 PM »
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I've thought about it several times, but never pulled the trigger. I'm afraid if I get the software, the next thing I know that is all I'd be doing. Good bye layout.

I know just what you mean. There have been some extraordinary timelapse videos posted recently, many of which were taken with a DSLR and a laptop...

A sample...

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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2010, 07:23:04 PM »
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And I believe that one just uses the free Canon EOS Utility software
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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #7 on: December 20, 2010, 11:13:33 AM »
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The one that David posted of the rail relaying a few weeks ago is the best I've seen.

I would like to get into time-lapse photography (in addition to regular photography) as well.

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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #8 on: December 20, 2010, 02:47:53 PM »
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I would get more into stop motion than time lapse. In high school I did a clay animation project for an English class. My class partner and I wrote a script and shot it in stop action movie using 8mm film. It was called, "The meek shall inherit." I don't remember the plot very well except that one of the characters falls in a well.  It was pretty cool, even though we did no post processing other than cutting a splicing.  I always wanted to try that again with some of the new software out there.

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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #9 on: December 20, 2010, 03:10:17 PM »
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Stop motion would be another time-sucking monster for me. Starting in high school and all through college, I must have done about a dozen stop motion films. The most ambitious of them was when I animated the contents of a large office building. It was on campus at college, and I shot it after business hours. It took all night, but it was worth it--everything in the office moved in sync with a music soundtrack. Coincidentally the title of the film was "After Hours." Wish I still had all those 8mm films, but they're long gone.

Recently I decided to give stop motion a try using a DSLR and some image stacking software that takes individual frames and assembles them into video.

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Re: Time lapse video of backdrop painting
« Reply #10 on: December 20, 2010, 03:36:32 PM »
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In high school I did a clay animation project for an English class.

Odd...we did a bunch of these.  This one wasn't the best, but the only one that survived.

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