Hi Eric

Fantastic job

Is the time lapse function in the camera or did you use PD to 'speed' it up?

Was it video footage or still?

How did you manage the nice smooth panning effect?

Thanks again - great to watch

Oh one more thing, what zoo was it?

Happing editing

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Neil
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Thanks for sharing your work Bastian -

I'm sure, like me, many forum members appreciate the opportunity to see what other PD users are producing.

The only disappointing thing about your post is the fact that someone decided to give it a one-star rating, without exercising a little intelligence and making a useful comment. Maybe they thought it was YouTube, rather than an editor's forum.

Cheers - Tony
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Quote: How did you manage the nice smooth panning effect?

. . . and what equipment do you require to do the slow zooming effect as well
. . . and finally what camera did you use . . . thanks. Trevor . . My YouTube site . . (Bristol, UK) . . My JVC GZ-HM1 Camcorder

Hi Eric,

I have the same questions as Neil, same comment as Tony

+ as I am in to rendering/producing formats these days;
what did you produce to?

Thank you for sharing !

Nina

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Thank you.

A thoroughly enjoyable bit of video. The opening sequence made me laugh (out loud) at the monkeys movements, well captured sir.

Music selection was just right. Human ants whizzing in scurried fashion, aquarium scene a delight, even more "ants" ha ha.

Well done.

I have given you a five star.

Dafydd

Five stars from me too Happing editing

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Hey!!! did I see a guy pick-pocket someone.

Thanks

For sharing

Most of it was shot with a Panasonic Tm700 and Pan. 0.67x Wide Angle lens in 1-second time lapse mode, which is built-in to the camera and is saved in the same format as 1080i.
The clips where people are motion-blurred was shot with a Nikon D300 SLR and the 18-200 lens at 18mm at F22 which gave me 2 to 5 second exposures. The D300 has a built-in "time lapse" function as well.

I recently bought a Canon SX200 point and shoot because you can put CHDK (canon hack development kit) on it, which allows you to script picture taking. I currently have it set to take pictures Monday through Friday from 6am to 10am to capture sunrises over Minneapolis from my cube on the 9th floor. So I'm sure you'll see some of those, as well as thunderstorms rolling in, in the future.

I used yawcam (yet another webcam program) to stitch the jpgs into a mov. It doesn't render anything, because it will convert a thousand jpegs into a quicktime mov in about 2 seconds. So I set the SLR resolution to small (1400 vertical resolution)

FYI, out of curiosity I tried stitching full-size 12MP jpegs (HD format: 3020P!) and PD9 was able to import them!
That means you can crop 2/3 of the image and still be optically full 1080P which is quite nice. None of these zoo clips were shot that way though.

As for the panning, it's just the power-tool crop feature. Select the area you want to start with (left half) then at the end select the area you want to end with (right half). When you play it, it appears to be panning and or zooming. Having a wide angle lens and a camera with good resolution helps. However I'm willing to bet most people on youtube don't even bother to watch HD, and you would never notice any magnification artifacts at 480P unless you zoomed really far in.

Using a 12 megapixel movie you could zoom REALLY far in software without any artifacting. (needs lots of RAM)

I saved as mpeg-4 and uploaded to youtube.

One last note: Youtube supports resolutions up to 4000P so you can actually upload those 12mp jpeg mov files directly to youtube. You'll get an option above 1080 that says "original format" but you can't zoom in and it scales it to your screen. So unless you have a really high-res monitor it doesn't buy you much.

It is the Apple Valley Zoo in Minnesota.

Bastian,

a great post!
Oh....we need more of this in here!
Your post made me google for your camera, the CHDK (I have never heard of it before)
and yawcam...also new to me.

I'll be waiting for your sunrises !


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Hi Eric

Thanks for the follow up and the detailed info.

Great job

Thanks Happing editing

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I used yawcam (yet another webcam program) to stitch the jpgs into a mov. It doesn't render anything, because it will convert a thousand jpegs into a quicktime mov in about 2 seconds. So I set the SLR resolution to small (1400 vertical resolution)

FYI, out of curiosity I tried stitching full-size 12MP jpegs (HD format: 3020P!) and PD9 was able to import them!
That means you can crop 2/3 of the image and still be optically full 1080P which is quite nice. None of these zoo clips were shot that way though.

As for the panning, it's just the power-tool crop feature. Select the area you want to start with (left half) then at the end select the area you want to end with (right half). When you play it, it appears to be panning and or zooming. Having a wide angle lens and a camera with good resolution helps. However I'm willing to bet most people on youtube don't even bother to watch HD, and you would never notice any magnification artifacts at 480P unless you zoomed really far in.

Using a 12 megapixel movie you could zoom REALLY far in software without any artifacting. (needs lots of RAM)

I saved as mpeg-4 and uploaded to youtube.

One last note: Youtube supports resolutions up to 4000P so you can actually upload those 12mp jpeg mov files directly to youtube. You'll get an option above 1080 that says "original format" but you can't zoom in and it scales it to your screen. So unless you have a really high-res monitor it doesn't buy you much.

It is the Apple Valley Zoo in Minnesota.

Hi Bastian,

I have a question regarding the Power Tools usage on your footage. I use PD10 and have not found a way to use Power Directors on single frames. Even if I convert the single frames to a diashow clip (one object within timeline) it is not possible to use the Power Tools and therefore not possible to use the zooming and panning effects on timelapse footage.

The only way to do this for me is to first produce a 1080p clip and edit it afterwards with Power Tools. Unfortunately using this workflow I use important pixels in resolution as the max output resolution of the produced clip in step one is 1080p. Cropping and panning on this clip will reduce the resolution to somewhat smaller than 1080p...

Any clues on that?

Thank you,
Thomas

pdr11 supports 4k resolution... or use ffmpeg or another product to do the first encode (jpg to mov) to something higher than 1080p.

it would be nice if the crop tool worked on pdr slideshows in timelapse mode.

I would like to see a new forum item, where videos are posted to learn and discuss. A little different than YT. thick skin must be required & kind hearts of help as the forum admin do/does.

Video, details, and description with a limited minutes.

I vote: film is a 4 + 0 details + 0 discription= 4

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