For those who don’t know an intervalometer is, it tells your computer to take a picture every given interval. This enables you to shoot video with a still camera over a long period of time.
Category Archives: video
Time Lapses
I had a lot of time to kill over break, so I shot a bunch of timelapses. Here they are! This is from a coffeeshop that I spent a lot of my time in. This is of some clouds at dusk. This one has two separate positions, and it is really interesting to see the …
7 questions for my avid fans
Seeing as how I am constantly inundated by media requests – I figured I would use my podium here to ask the readers a few questions. I look at it as distributed googling really, and hopefully finding some vetted answers in the sea of confusion that is out there. 1) has anyone used CHDK here? …
powering a nikon d40 from an ac outlet
I have been shooting a lot of time lapses lately. The biggest problem with that is battery life. I have a very ghetto hack to power the camera from a cell phone charger, but I am looking for a more permanent solution. I found a fotodiox battery grip on amazon that has an internal battery, …
Print contact sheets / thumbnails from video footage
This is a task I don’t like doing, but it is certainly useful if you have a lot of footage to sort through and not everyone is very technically inclined. It allows you to print a contact sheet from every x frames/seconds/minutes of a video file. That helps when you are looking for a specific …
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8 tips for Time lapse photography
Here’s a few things I have learned while sitting in fields waiting for my camera to finish working for me. 8 tips for shooting SLR time lapses 1) Put your camera on full manual – otherwise the still will flicker from one to the next. 2) Try to pick objects that are still, …
time lapses – getting to know your intervalometer
I’ve been inspired to shoot more pictures lately. Like everything else in my life I tend to go for quantity over quality, so I shot a LOT of pictures. I acquired a battery/intervalometer for my Nikon D40 a while back and didn’t even notice the intervalometer settings until recently. I’ve shot quite a few …
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Unserialize/Reserialize Final Cut Pro & Why does apple hate me?
Here’s two quick video related snafu’s I’ve run into today. I have had to unserialize a copy of FCP and then put in a new (the correct one, technically) serial number. It turns out that unless you want to reinstall everything, then the file to find is located in Library/Application Support/ProApps and it is called …
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Some AFX tests
Here are some recent tests I did with vector line effects in After Effects. This first one is from a tutorial I found by bill O’neil on the creative cow site using the shine plugin. This is the simplest one, cloning out the tracing effect once I liked it, and tweaking to add depth. This …