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Hi,
Just bought the stage 1 dolly system from Dynamic Perception and planning to use this to create time-lapse movies during our upcoming road trip around Australia. Generally I will be capturing landscape or urban scenes of sleepy rural towns.
I am using Nikon camera gear and processing with Lightroom, LRtimelapse, Final Cut Pro X and Motion software. I am taking an Apple MacBook Pro Laptop on our trip. LRtimelapse software appears to be crucial to creating a quality output and I appreciate the time and effort gone into creating this - brilliant work!
Aside from the technical aspects of creating and processing the shots my research into what makes an interesting time-lapse movie has uncovered the following general principles. Any comments on these would be well appreciated and help me to avoid spending countless hours producing below average time-lapse movies.
1 The movie should be between 2 to 3 minutes total time.
2 Clips within the movie should be around 10 to 15 secs per clip.
3 Some camera movement (using a dolly for example) often makes more interesting clips than having the camera static.
4 Having some foreground adds interest and depth to the clip.
5 Soft relaxing background music seems to be more appropriate for the types of scenes I would be capturing.
6 Having plenty of interesting movement in the clip makes for a more interesting movie.
7 Getting the camera into unusual positions and angles adds interest.
8 Having some descriptive titles in the movie helps keep the viewers interest.
9 Avoid drastically changing light conditions (e.g. bright sun to cloud covered shade) to prevent flickering.
10 Transitions between clips should be subtle.
I am sure this list could be expanded and look forward to getting some tips from experienced time lapsers so I can establish a solid recipe for producing my time-lapse movies.
My very first attempt ever at a time lapse sequence (to practice the processing methods) can be seen here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na0NJxr4YHY
It is very short but helped me sort out the basics of using the image processing software which I had never used before - and still got a long way to go!
CU
Glenn
Just bought the stage 1 dolly system from Dynamic Perception and planning to use this to create time-lapse movies during our upcoming road trip around Australia. Generally I will be capturing landscape or urban scenes of sleepy rural towns.
I am using Nikon camera gear and processing with Lightroom, LRtimelapse, Final Cut Pro X and Motion software. I am taking an Apple MacBook Pro Laptop on our trip. LRtimelapse software appears to be crucial to creating a quality output and I appreciate the time and effort gone into creating this - brilliant work!
Aside from the technical aspects of creating and processing the shots my research into what makes an interesting time-lapse movie has uncovered the following general principles. Any comments on these would be well appreciated and help me to avoid spending countless hours producing below average time-lapse movies.
1 The movie should be between 2 to 3 minutes total time.
2 Clips within the movie should be around 10 to 15 secs per clip.
3 Some camera movement (using a dolly for example) often makes more interesting clips than having the camera static.
4 Having some foreground adds interest and depth to the clip.
5 Soft relaxing background music seems to be more appropriate for the types of scenes I would be capturing.
6 Having plenty of interesting movement in the clip makes for a more interesting movie.
7 Getting the camera into unusual positions and angles adds interest.
8 Having some descriptive titles in the movie helps keep the viewers interest.
9 Avoid drastically changing light conditions (e.g. bright sun to cloud covered shade) to prevent flickering.
10 Transitions between clips should be subtle.
I am sure this list could be expanded and look forward to getting some tips from experienced time lapsers so I can establish a solid recipe for producing my time-lapse movies.
My very first attempt ever at a time lapse sequence (to practice the processing methods) can be seen here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na0NJxr4YHY
It is very short but helped me sort out the basics of using the image processing software which I had never used before - and still got a long way to go!
CU
Glenn
