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I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Kent Frost » Tue Oct 15, 2013 3:30 pm

I shot this last summer using a HD Hero 2 in the 720p/60f mode. I find that when I shoot these, that the higher the framerate I can get, the better the results. The reason for this is because the resampling function in Sony Vegas blends the frames together when you speed up the footage. When it does this, you can see the stacking of the frames when you freeze the footage at any given point, and this is what creates the motion blur. The more frames you can shoot, the more tightly packed this stacking is and it becomes less noticeable, thereby making the motion blur effect more natural looking. I have since upgraded to the HD Hero 3 Black Edition, which will shoot 120fps in 720p. I'll have to post a still frame soon showing the difference.
In the meantime, enjoy. :)

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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Steve Grisetti » Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:09 pm

Another very nice one, Kent! Watching your videos is almost a hypnotic experience.

How many minutes of real-time footage are we watching fly by in five minutes?
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Kent Frost » Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:35 pm

Thanks Steve. :)

I don't have the original file anymore, so I can't give you an exact figure, but I'd say it was roughly 30-40 minutes.
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby momoffduty » Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:36 pm

Very nice and agree hypnotic. Good choice on the music. The opening looked like you were heading east out of Springfield?? Does the GoPro Black Edition 3 come with a car mount? Where did you have the camera for this drivelapse?
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Dave McElderry » Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:41 pm

Cool! How did you get it to be so stable?
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Kent Frost » Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:44 pm

I stuck one of the sticky mounts on the hood of my car. :) You can actually see the tip of the front of the hood on the bottom corners of the image. I drove a Neon, which has a fairly short and down-curved hood, but the lens is wide enough that it distorts it upward like that.
And yep, we were headed out of Springfield, but we went south on Hwy 65 to the Branson area.

Edit: Cheryl, yes the Hero 3 comes with a few different mounts, including 1 curved and 1 flat adhesive mount. I used the flat one here. They also sell what they call a "grab bag" of mounts, which comes with an array of different mounts.
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Dave McElderry » Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:52 pm

I think that takes you right by the "Home of the Throwed Rolls." :yh:
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Postby Kent Frost » Tue Oct 15, 2013 4:57 pm

That it does! That's one exit away from my house. :TU:
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby momoffduty » Tue Oct 15, 2013 6:44 pm

Here is a drivelapse that Sidd posted a while back. The camera is on the driver's side and makes for a scary ride. Scroll down the page:

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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Kent Frost » Tue Oct 15, 2013 9:57 pm

Very cool. :)

My brother lives up in the mountains of Colorado near Breckenridge, and I've wanted to start recording just before Denver on I-70 and get the 100+ miles from there to his house. Always thought that would look cool.
Also, Highway 46 in North Dakota is the US's longest and flattest straight road that stretches for 123 miles from east to west. I've wanted to drivelapse that from beginning to end toward the sunset ever since I found out about it. LOL
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Ron Hunter » Wed Oct 16, 2013 11:47 am

Another cool vid Kent! I have a HD Hero 2 and I can try this also, but I don't want to put one of those mounts on my car exterior as the adhesive is VERY strong (as you know). I'll try the suction mount on my dashboard.
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Ron Hunter » Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:46 pm

I tried my first "drivelapse" today, using GoPro with 1280x720 60p. I used PreEl10 "time stretch" tool to compress the hour of footage into 5 minutes.

The video looks fine, but I notice that the video motion does not have the "blur" of Kent's video. (I'll post the video once I finish it.) When I advance the footage one step at a time, each frame looks crisp.

Can someone kindly explain the difference between the "time stretch" tool in PreEL10 and the "time remapping" (?) tool in Vegas? Any way to get the "blur" without dropping $$$ on pro tools?
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby Kent Frost » Tue Oct 22, 2013 12:43 am

Unfortunately, I don't have any experience with Premiere Elements to offer any suggestions here. I would imagine there's an equivalent in PreEl to Vegas's "frame resampling", which is the feature that stacks the frames in time-compressed clips on the timeline, but I honestly don't know what they would call it.
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Re: I love me some Drivelapses. :)

Postby momoffduty » Tue Oct 22, 2013 7:43 am

I don't have PrEl so maybe someone can jump in here. Does PrEl have Motion Blur effect?
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