Lapse Of The Sun

The last few posts I made have been talking about a making a time-lapse video.  Well it is now done and uploaded.  Like before have uploaded it to YouTube and Vimeo.

This is my first real attempt to make a time-lapse video. Spent the last few days filming the sun from different angles. Using my GoPro 960 to take the pictures. Made the sound track myself as well. The opening title was made using After Effects with the help of tutorials on Video Copilot.net.

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Video Copilot

Yesterday I made a post > here.   Talking about making a time-lapse video.  Which is turning out pretty good.  It is just going to take some time since 330 pictures is about 10 seconds long.   Well back to the the title, Video Copilot.  This website all about Adobe After Effects.  They have a bunch of very nice tutorials for all level users.   They all so sell videos/presets/elements and that you can use in your projects.  This is a very professional stuff.

While I have watched a few of their tutorials.  Got thinking I should make a into video that I could use in all future video projects.  You know like when you watch a movie. Example the Fox or WB logos at the start of a movie.  So that is what I did.  Very happy with they way it turned out.  You will get to see what when the time-lapse video is done.

Oh, all decided that I should make everything for the video.  So I am working a song for it as well.  Most of time I use or find a song I like.  All so happy with the way that is turning out as well.

Time-lapse

Working on making a time-lapse video.  Tried making one back in April.  You can see some of that in the video I made for the Gowalla.com/Freelance Whales video contest > here.  It turned out ok for a first try.  But last night learned a new trick that saves so much time and effort.  While I was editing the new batch of pictures I took.  Would manually edit each picture down to 00:00:01 of a second.  To make a smooth time-lapse video you need about 30 pictures for every one second.  After doing this for about 150 pictures.  Got thinking there was to be a better way.  So got looking around in the editing program I use, Adobe Premiere Elements 4.0.  Found and option that lets you set the frames of each picture in the project.  Saved some much time.   One I set that up all I had to so was drag the picture on to the timeline.

Plan to capture a lot of different angles of the sun and clouds or what not.  Mix them together in to a new video.  So far I have three clips done.  One is being “filmed” as I type this.   Trying to get one of the sun moving across the sky.  Using my GoPro HD Hero 960 to make this.  Had the battery die on me last night trying to get the sunset.  So check back ever so often.  Will be posting it some point to the future.

Tempest Milky Way

The video (below) called Tempest Milky Way I must say it is the coolest timelapse video I have ever seen.   It was made by Randy Halverson over at Dakotalapse.com.  He has all kinds of videos there.   Would like to try and make of of these motion controlled timelapse videos.  These videos are a good inspiration for sure.

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