Went to Disneyland and made my first hyper lapse video - General

[video=youtube;w8TML9AqqQI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8TML9AqqQI[/video] It was my first time making a timelapse video. The whole thing was shot on a Sony A7s . I would get to Disneyland and look for cool looking spots and then decide if it warranted a hyper-lapse sequence or a stationary time-lapse sequence. The timelapse shots were easy. Just plop down my tripod and let the shutter go off automatically in timed intervals. This allowed me to slow the shutter speed down to get some nice motion blur. I also had to use an ND filter (camera sunglasses) to bring down the intensity of the light coming in. For the panning shots, I would just move the camera a smidgen until the sequence was done. Around 150 movements for every 6 seconds that you see in the video. The hyper-lapse sequences were a bit tougher. The crowds plus having to move quickly forced me to hand hold the shots each time. I would aim to a specific reference point like the top or edge of building and take a picture and then move 4 inches and repeat the process. Capturing enough photo's for 6 seconds of video would take between 10-30 minutes. There were over 3,500 photos total with an additional hour of editing and rendering to produce each 6 seconds of video. The sequences were then run through Adobe After Effects and stabilized manually and then run through the automatic warp stabilizer. Then I exported to Premiere and created the titles and everything else you see. Those hyper lapse apps wouldn't work as well simply because they don't allow me to capture an image in RAW to squeeze all of the info I can from the file. That and the night shots would not be as easy to capture. I suppose I could mount the phone on a tripod and do it that way. It is possible to get something similar on a phone, but it's a lot harder. It's just easier with my A7s. Pure and total laziness on my part. Here is the video I used as reference for my first attempt [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8JUKLjZxyE[/url]

Really awesome work! Loving the moving lapses

Really really nice! The song fitted so well. Keep up the great work!

Damn this looks amazing, especially loving the song that acompinied it. Hope to see more things like this, any idea what the next one might be?

Good choice of Pogo dude, captures Disney perfectly.

Pogo <3

That was awesome, well done!

[QUOTE=aurum481;49145115]Really awesome work! Loving the moving lapses[/QUOTE] Thanks! I'm glad the hard work resulted in something usable. Disney's official twitter even liked. So much so that they even mysteriously made their own a few days later of Downtown Disney haha. Though they shot video and took out frames to simulate timelapse. Still cool though. [editline]19th November 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=coolgame8013;49149030]Damn this looks amazing, especially loving the song that acompinied it. Hope to see more things like this, any idea what the next one might be?[/QUOTE] I made a shot video sort of spur of the moment during Stan Lee's Comikaze Expo. It wasn't planned out very well and didn't look as nice. The next ones will be a Christmas themed Disney Hyper lapse, Universal Studio's Hollywood, Knotts Berry Farm, and a tilt shift one for Lego Land. [video=youtube;mgi2TXZSYtM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgi2TXZSYtM[/video] [editline]19th November 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Zeb Brown;49149062]Good choice of Pogo dude, captures Disney perfectly.[/QUOTE] There were honestly only a handful of choices I could think of that would fit a timelapse and Pogo's stuff sat at the top of the list.

As someone who went to Disneyland a lot as a kid, this really made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Some really nice footage you captured here.

[QUOTE=Omniary;49149569]As someone who went to Disneyland a lot as a kid, this really made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. Some really nice footage you captured here.[/QUOTE] Warm and fuzzy is exactly the feeling I was aiming for. Mission accomplished.

I just went to Didneyland last week. The Matterhorn and California Screamin' rides were super fun

Wow and you didn't even hangout with me?

holy shit! i'm pretty sure I may have seen you a few weeks back filming, I recall seeing someone setting up a tripod facing that exact angle at 0:46 at the Storybook canal boats

while it's currently free and could switch to a price tag, MS has hyperlapse software which might help clean up some of the shots were you move forward. [url]http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/b199c523-bcd9-4a1f-b58b-af75bd5c621c/[/url] [url]http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/hyperlapseapps/[/url] Not saying that your stuff doesn't look great which it does.