The following video was based on a request received for a comparison between Shloer Red Grape Juice vs Water based ice-cubes melting in a wine glass. The water based ice-cubes have a far denser structure than the ones created from the Shloer Red Grape Juice drink. As you can see below the volume taken up by the Shloer Red Grape ice-cubes appears to be far greater than the water in ice-cube form. However once they have completely melted the liquid volume is very much the same. As you can see the Shloer Red Grape does in the end completely turn to liquid before the tap water based ice-cubes. Watch and enjoy for yourself.
For some strange and curious reason time-lapse videos of Ice melting in wine glasses seems to be quite a popular topic on YouTube – go figure. So I decided to create a similar video myself over the weekend. The Ice-cubes I used had a red tint to them as they were made from ShloerRed Grape juice. You can see the video below. Certainly the lighting could be improved. Recorded just over two hours of footage this was compressed down into a little under two minutes representing a speedup of 5187%. As an experiment I rendered out the video on a number of machines to see the resulting processing times, from dual-core laptop / desktop to a dual quad-core Xeon workstation.
Output Settings
Video NTSC 1920 x 1080p, 29.97fps
Audio AAC 128kbps, 48Khz Stereo
Bitrate VBR, 2 Pass, Target 7.00 Max 8.00Mbps
Frames 4196, Footage Duration 02m:20s:00f
Render Time 08h:05m:56s on a Dual Core Laptop, 2 Gig’s RAM, Windows Vista
Render Time 01h:13m:02s on a Dual Core Desktop, 4 Gig’s RAM, Windows 7
Render Time 00h:28m:15s on a Dual Quad Core BoXX, 8 Gig’s RAM, Windows 7
Below one can see the CPU and memory usage of the Dual Core Desktop and the Boxx Workstation, its interesting to see the memory usage levels. One can clearly see in the image below that the dual core machine is using up 3.6GB of its memory, on several occasions it even exceeded this.
In the case of the BoXX workstation a similar pattern is quite evident, with almost the entire memory of the machine being committed to the job. One can see below that the memory commit was 7.75GB of the total 8GB available. It again peaked a little higher than this on several occasions. CPU usage generally hovered around the 94/95% mark. Edited and rendered using Adobe Premier Pro CS5.
Ten minutes of footage showing a red candle, it was compressed down to 30 seconds representing a speed up of 2000%. As you can see a blueish backdrop was use, the footage was recorded in the afternoon on a very overcast day, thereby eliminating all forms of hard light from the shot.
Output Settings
Video NTSC 1920 x 1080p, 29.97fps
Audio AAC 128kbps, 48Khz Stereo
Bitrate VBR, 2 Pass, Target 7.00 Max 8.00Mbps
Output File Size 26,703,665 bytes
Frames 900, Footage Duration 00m:30s:00f
Render Time 01h:38m:45s on a Dual Core Laptop, 2 Gig’s RAM, Windows Vista
