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Getting essentially the most out of your digital video digital camera can imply being able to create some actually cool stuff. You just must step outdoors the manual a bit and discover the cool things you are able to do together with your digital video digital camera and your enhancing software.

We've got all seen them in a film or a TV present, those very cool photographs the place they velocity up time and capture a long segment of time and condense it into a very short amount of video. My very favorite instance of this system was an arty film of many years in the past that was known as Koyaanisqatsi. (view trailer) In that film they had some very fascinating segments the place they did time lapse results to show driving on a bridge, flowers growing, clouds flying by and so on. Another example is many of the TV news stations these days have a digicam that captures the day's weather after which they process it all the way down to a 20 second clip to indicate the clouds and climate racing by on screen.

Properly this technique isn't just a device in the palms of the film makers or the large TV stations. You can do this together with your digital video digital camera gear too. I'll go into two ways that you would be able to accomplish this effect and get some cool outcomes on your next video project. This one is value playing round with with a view to discover the best settings to get the most dramatic effect.

Method number one is to use the digicam itself to do the time lapse recording for you. Virtually all digital video cameras have the power to do an interval recording. What this implies in a nutshell is that you just tell the digicam how long you need to document for and how lengthy in between recordings and it'll go on autopilot for you for as long as the battery lasts or the tape runs out. That is what these cameras at the comfort retailer do, they record just a few seconds of movement each 30-60 seconds giving the overall view of the traffic in the retailer over time.

Now if you wish to seize some time lapse in your digital video camera you have to to get into your cameras menu and find Interval Recording (or in my case Int Rec, as I use a Sony PD 150 for my digicam) When you choose this selection you'll resolve how lengthy of an interval between shots you want and the way long to file each time. If you are attempting to seize one thing that takes a very long time to happen and by which not much occurs rapidly you will want to set the interval at round a minute and the document time as brief as possible on your camera. An example can be when you needed to report a day in the life of a flower or the clouds rolling by within the sky. Suppose nonetheless that you just wish to seize an occasion that has a number of motion and occurs over a much shorter time frame. Then you would need to shorten the interval between recordings and enhance the time of each recording. So on this case you may record every 15-30 seconds and file up to 2-three seconds of video every time.

I used this technique to capture an afternoon of labor being performed by a workforce of carpenters on my house reworking project. The end result was a flurry of exercise as workers raced hither and yon nailing boards, carrying gear and constructing walls. I've added it to my picture assortment of the project. (Hey I needed to stay through the project so I would as properly have a fantastic file of it for posterity!)

Now suppose you've one of many nice software program video editing packages on your laptop to work along with your digital video camera. Now you can do it in post as they are saying in the business. You possibly can file any size of video you want (subject to the restrictions of your tape length) after which import it into your editing program.

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I exploit Adobe Premiere Professional for my enhancing jobs, however I have additionally used Avid DV Categorical, Final Minimize Professional, and others within the non linear editing world. These are all great packages and are very powerful merchandise that may create some very professional looking videos. You do not have to have these merchandise to create your own videos but in case you are serious about digital video enhancing it may be a good suggestion to check out these options.

I digitize my raw video of the scene I am doing time lapse on into my laptop (massive arduous drive, video eats up GB's of space) and then import the clip into my time line. From th3e timeline you can then choose the clip with a proper click. From there you will be given a menu with options relying on the software you use. Choose the option that says "period", "pace" or something similar. Change the pace of the clip so that time will pace up considerably. If in case you have an hour of video within the clip and want to shorten it to 2 -5 minutes then you have to improve the velocity of the clip to 3 or four thousand percent of normal. This can require your software program to render the clip at the larger velocity and will take a while high course of depending on the velocity of your computer.

Upon getting rendered the video clip on the new speed you'll want to play it to see if the movie flows evenly or if you will want to readjust the speed setting to make it better. Sometimes you might need to shorten your uncooked video and alter the velocity down somewhat in order to get a easy movement of action. After getting rendered the clip on the new pace now you can minimize and splice it as you see fit with the speeded up motion intact. There are some things you will report that might solely want a slight velocity change, take for example some digital video of your youngsters playing sports. Double or triple the speed of the clip and present it to them and you might have them rolling on the floor.

You may also use these techniques to capture the expansion of a flower or plant over the course of days or weeks. Simply set you digicam in exactly the identical place at the similar time each day and record an interval that works every day fro however long you wish to document. Could also be you get the seedling just breaking soil and observe it all the way through turning into a full grown plant.

One other fascinating thought is to capture the trail of the moon throughout the night time sky. Arrange your camera on a tripod in a spot that can see the path of the moon for several hours. Set the digicam to interval document and put the moon on one facet of the body so that it will go across the body as the night passes. This one may require some testing in order to get the publicity and framing proper as well as the right interval to report at. More than likely you'd wish to set the interval as long as you may and the document time as brief as you can but do a check run first to see what works.

I am unable to stress sufficient that utilizing your digital video camera could be great fun and you can obtain some cool results. Mess around and test. You simply would possibly end up creating some very artistic digital video to share with the rest of the world.           

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