View from the Fairmont
Here’s a little video timelapsing two hours of San Francisco from the 25th floor of the Fairmont hotel.
I love timelapse videos; I wish more cameras had that as an option. Pretty much anything sped up is more interesting. Science has proven that it is on average 42% more interesting, increasing with the fewer frames captured per hour, with the resulting video being a minimum of 10 seconds long. Take a look at this sandwich video:
Now imagine if it were in real time. Ya, way more boring. Imovie06 (I’ve given up on imovie 08. it’s terrible) has the ability to timelapse. You record a video and specify how many frames it takes a minute. This is much easier than recording a full video and then speeding it up.
Very cool, I should see if my camera does time lapse.
I couldn’t agree less with you on iMovie ‘08 however. It’s the first video editor I could get to work without a huge tutorial. I’m annoyed more advanced editors don’t have a similar interface.
August 22nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
@red I think ‘08 is a good intro to movie editing, but it removed a lot of features I use regularly (like audio enveloping). WRT the interface, I’ve always felt that they copied Jumpcut. Take a look at our online video editor: http://jumpcut.com/create/edit?movie_id=E7DEA70224B911DDBD76000423CF3686 .
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Holy moly! Wasn’t aware of this feature. Will have to check this out! Hope you are well Karen!
August 25th, 2008 at 1:48 am
@k1mb3rly Can’t wait to see the resulting videos. Hope you are doing well too :)
August 25th, 2008 at 6:30 am
I’m with you on iMovie ‘08 too. Although i wasn’t a great fan of ‘06 either. I guess i got spoiled from learning on FCP…
August 25th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
did you eat that?! lol i agree about speeding up videos, they’re so much more fun! My daughter did one on youtube of herself eating ice cream & drawing. youtube.com/user/lifewithlili
August 29th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
What is that? Wonder bread? Where’s the sprouted whole grain bread? I hope that wasn’t soy nut butter!
September 25th, 2008 at 7:49 am