Yesterdays post contained some photographs taken from the roof of the Round Tower at the Garthdee Campus of Robert Gordon University. This post as the title says includes a number of timelapse videos taken around 06:30 in the morning just as the sun was rising.
A few images of the Round Tower may also be seen below, giving some idea of the location from where the videos were recorded & yesterdays photos were taken.
Some months ago myself and a collegue assembled a Libec Swift Jib 50 Kit (user manuals and specs are available from this page as pdf files), including the Jib arm, T102B tripod, & DL08 Dolly, along with the REMO30 pan/tilt head, attached to a Sony NX5E video camera. The following video is a timelapse of the assembly process. Earlier today I gave a live demo of the setup process, with the addition of linking the video feed to a SWIT 7 inch monitor at 42 inch TV via HDMI.
The following videos give a sense of the capabilities of the system & some further details on the assembly process.
The video below in particular give a good overview of how the system can work when connected to both a monitor and HD TV.
The next video provides a good overview of the setup processes involved.
One can get a good sense of the type of shots that are capable of being captured from this video.
Another good example is that of a wedding scenario.
A boxing match also provides some interesting potential for various shot types and dynamic movement.
The following video demonstrates how the Jib system can be used for the purposes of making a music video with some really nice smooth motion and a variety of angles being captured.
The following video is a quick demo to a former MSc student of mine on how the system works, as you can see viewing the cameras perspective on a large HD TV is far more entertaining and useful that a small low and fairly low resolution monitor.
The first snow of 2013 in Aberdeen appeared overnight on Sunday 13th Jan and into the early hours of the morning on the 14th. The videos below are looking out towards Rosemount Viaduct and beyond to Union Street during a snow shower in the late evening of Monday the 14th.
Melting Ice Cube Regeneration video may perhaps reminds one of the secene from Terminator 2 where the T1000 played by the actor Robert Patrick regenerates after being frozen and smashed into thousands of little pieces. In this particular case one can see two wine glasses, one containing Sholer Red Grape Juice and the other standard tap water. As the video moves along however, the liquid transforms into Ice Cubes. This footage was recorded over the space of a few hours at a rate of one frame every two seconds.
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.
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
Recorded about an hour of footage and compressed it down into about five minutes, it shows the the City of Aberdeen, Scotland gradually coming to life as the dawn breaks over the city. One can see the Bridge of Dee clearly in the center of the shot. As time moves on, one can see that the bridge becomes illuminated with the sunshine gradually creeping out over the hills from behind the location from which to footage was recorded.
Recorded about an hour of footage and reduced it down into about two minutes, it shows the sun gradually making its way across the Bridge of Dee in Aberdeen, Scotland. The sun was rising south east of the bridge and gradually illuminates it over the duration of the recorded footage. The footage was recorded from Tollohill Woods on the south bank of the Dee.
