a video timelapse from queensland astrofest 2010

h0ughy (David) · #1 10-11-2010, 07:38 PM

I posted this in the Queensland astrofest thread but realised i should have given the video its own thread

This is a test and i probably will redo it again. Sorry but its on youtube so the quality is out the door - actually its the very first thing i loaded on there. Sorry about the music - my original track i had on it was copyrighted so couldn't use it.

Taken over 5 nights - all night

EDIT FAster version here

h0ughy (David) · #2 10-11-2010, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by kinetic

bloody nice David, bloody nice!!!!!!!!!!

I've been trying for months to capture that sort of atmospheric
all night type of time lapse...and I give up now....
Bloody nice...well done!

Steve

Thanks Steve. i am not entirely happy with it and will redo it again from scratch, but i can say there are no repeating sequences - there is about 3000 odd images, some taken with the 400D and the majority with the 30D

ballaratdragons (Ken) · #3 10-11-2010, 08:18 PM

FANTASTIC!

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #4 10-11-2010, 08:32 PM

wonderful work Dave.
I think I saw my set up there a couple of times.
Hope you don't mind, I've shared it with all my astro buddies on FB.

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #5 10-11-2010, 08:32 PM

Nice work David, some really enjoyable footage there... is the jerkiness of some footage a thing to do with Youtube or the actual movie? Just a Q. by no means having a go at the footage...

peter_4059 (Peter) · #6 10-11-2010, 08:33 PM

Awesome Dave - thats a long animation. Must have taken a long time to put it all together.

DavidTrap (David) · #7 10-11-2010, 08:42 PM

A marathon effort.

Can you share what sort of exposures you were using? Did you take all of these images in RAW or as JPEGs? (I've been thinking through the logistics of such time-lapses and given the number of images and that it will be viewed on a video screen would mean lowish res JPEGs would be appropriate)

Ta
DT

h0ughy (David) · #8 10-11-2010, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons

FANTASTIC!

LOL thanks ken you can get up now, you will get a bad back

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

wonderful work Dave.
I think I saw my set up there a couple of times.
Hope you don't mind, I've shared it with all my astro buddies on FB.

thanks JJJ - err whats FB - oh never mind just occured to me - face bookends

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Originally Posted by Astroman

Nice work David, some really enjoyable footage there... is the jerkiness of some footage a thing to do with Youtube or the actual movie? Just a Q. by no means having a go at the footage...

on a normal PC it works fine - so it must be the downloads from youtube - i created the video at 10 images per second

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Originally Posted by peter_4059

Awesome Dave - thats a long animation. Must have taken a long time to put it all together.

well stuffing about is taking longer but i used windows moviemaker live for windows 7. works ok. then used adobe media encoder to save the 700mb file for youtube.

I sent an original version of the file to [1ponders] a few weeks back so if it was jerky maybe he would have noticed it?

Astroman (Andrew Wall) · #9 10-11-2010, 08:49 PM

Why not speed it up to normal video speeds of 25fps or higher? 10fps is a little slow, but thats personal taste..

h0ughy (David) · #10 10-11-2010, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by DavidTrap

A marathon effort.

Can you share what sort of exposures you were using? Did you take all of these images in RAW or as JPEGs? (I've been thinking through the logistics of such time-lapses and given the number of images and that it will be viewed on a video screen would mean lowish res JPEGs would be appropriate)

Ta
DT

everything in raw plus jpeg - though i have done this is jpegs but left it open to reprocess and redo in raws. the astrotrac shots were 60 or 70 second shots at iso 1600 with a 10mm fisheye lens. may view is that if its high quality to start with it helps big time - allows for a bit of flexability. but if its too low res then you cant make it better

16 gig card and just go for it - i have 4 x 8 gig cards and a 16 gig card

h0ughy (David) · #11 10-11-2010, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by Astroman

Why not speed it up to normal video speeds of 25fps or higher? 10fps is a little slow, but thats personal taste..

i suppose but then it would run too quick?

Matt Wastell (Matt) · #12 10-11-2010, 08:57 PM

Great - I was entranced!
Thanks!!!!!

xstream (John) · #13 10-11-2010, 09:04 PM

Dave, I'll make sure I'm there next year with the Muscat to keep you awake. You slacked off on the amount of photons!

Job well done.

h0ughy (David) · #14 10-11-2010, 09:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Matt Wastell

Great - I was entranced!
Thanks!!!!!

glad you liked it

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Originally Posted by xstream

Dave, I'll make sure I'm there next year with the Muscat to keep you awake. You slacked off on the amount of photons!

Job well done.

well you slacked off by not being there LOL

stanlite (Grady) · #15 10-11-2010, 10:03 PM

is this the time lapse that was frustrating you up at astrofest ... the one that turned out blue ??? i remember it well.

h0ughy (David) · #16 10-11-2010, 10:06 PM

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Originally Posted by stanlite

is this the time lapse that was frustrating you up at astrofest ... the one that turned out blue ??? i remember it well.

lol yep, but i found out it was to do with the pal/ntsc settings

lacad01 (Adam) · #17 10-11-2010, 10:24 PM

Great video

h0ughy (David) · #18 11-11-2010, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by lacad01

Great video

thanks Adam

multiweb (Marc) · #19 11-11-2010, 08:34 AM

Loved the credits! Really great video a nice music to boot. Looks like you had heaps of fun and photons. Very well done indeed.

h0ughy (David) · #20 11-11-2010, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by multiweb

Loved the credits! Really great video a nice music to boot. Looks like you had heaps of fun and photons. Very well done indeed.

LOL cant make things too serious