Cool drivelapse video

[Ron Hunter]

I love this drivelapse video. The creator manages to apply focus only on a small part of the frame, almost as if the focus is vignetted. There also seems to be a tilt-shift effect going on.

Anyway, this is worth watching:

[Peru]

Amazing sync with the music.

[momoffduty]

Cool effect. Wonder if a Lens Baby was used?

[Dave McElderry]

Hurry up and wait.
Hurry up and wait.
Hurry up and wait.

Maybe if those folks weren't driving on the wrong side of the street they'd have better traffic flow.

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

Too right, Dave, about the stop/go traffic. It is horrendous. Planning any trip that involves a distance is a lottery in terms of time the journey will take.

[moan on] Our politicians are London based and all transport policy - road, rail, air travel - is definitely London centric. So London has a really quite good public transport infrastructure with local rail services, underground, buses, etc. It is the rest of the country that suffers and in the rural areas (that is anywhere more than a couple of miles from a town) it is either walk, cycle or use the car, there being scarce few other options. [/moan off]

Some boring statistics. The UK has a population somewhere north of 60 million. There are 35 million registered vehicles on its roads. The UK is a small island with a land area is about 94,000 square miles. For comparison Oregon is the closest in land area at about 96,000 square miles. I do not know anything about Oregon but can you imagine what it would be like with 35 million vehicles on its roads?

[Steve Grisetti]

Very cool video! I like how the tilt/shift effect makes it all look very toy-like.

[Ron Hunter]

Here is feedback from the video creator on how they achieved the effect:
" Thanks Ron, It's tilt shift in post with Magic Bullet Looks, with a little vignette, which I initially did it to obscure the vehicle number plates, then rather liked the feel as it focused the eye forward, so it stayed. "

I loved the tilt-shift and the focus vignetting, it really does pull your gaze forward. Now, how to do that in FCPX...

[sidd finch]

Maybe that could be a future contest... "your Drive to work" lol

Sidd

[Bob]

Maybe that could be a future contest... "your Drive to work" lol

That would leave me out, I'm a retiree. I could possibly do "My Drive to the Doctor's Office." lol

[Peru]

And I walk to work.

[Ron Hunter]

And I walk to work.

Great opportunity for some Steadicam magic!

[John 'twosheds' McDonald]

What is this strange new word, "work"? (I am with you, Bob!)

...I'm a retiree...

[_Paz_]

Seeing this makes me realize how lucky I am that I walk to work too... down two stair steps from the bed to the floor. Slip into my slippers, five steps to my desk!

[sidd finch]

when I grow up I wanna be retired too.

Sidd

[_Paz_]

(Putting on creaky, old granny voice)

Don't worry, sonny. You'll get there!

Old age sneaks up on you and when it happens, you don't know what hit you. It just feels like it was a Mack truck.