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How do you get those shots where it is a time lapse, but the camera is either panning or moving on a dolly? the camera is moving really slow but its a timelapse. if you do not understand what im asking ill post an example. Do i need to buy something? thats my guess, just really dont want to
you can sometimes crop the image (seeing that you're shooting a 4k image and only need it to be in 1080p) to get that result, but most of the time its done by using motion control rigs moving the camera very slowly during its timelapse.
most people use a motorized dolly, but there is a semi work around. The average DSLR has a 12+ megapixel sensor. Video at 1080p is about 2 megapixels. its a little hard to explain, but you could make it so that the timelapse was a crop on a small section of the photo. This would still give you full resolution (assuming you don't crop to much), and you could move around the area, giving the effect of a pan or zoom or similar movement. Not exactly the most practical, and definitely requires some forethought, but prbly the cheapest way
make you're time-lapse into 2k and zoom in a bit, take the left side of the movie and drag it to the left side of the frame. Put a key frame there and then go to the point you want the time-lapse to end end and then put a key frame there, get the right side of the video to the right end of the frame... (first scene in this edit: http://http://www.vimeo.com/27949877)
i do it myself from time to time, but only when i really need to. looks pretty bad to do it in post imo. very easy to tell when they just cropped and panned the image.
Just wondering how can you tell if the image was just cropped and panned because imo I cant tell the difference(unless the rig moves in 3 dimensions and not just from side to side)
more often then not professional timelapses(as well as amateurs) are shot using a wide angle lens, usually with some barrel distortion to give us the "whole picture" feeling. with a motorized dolly, the distortion "moves", where as in a crop the distortion is at the start and at the end, with no distortion in between because of the crop. this is usually how i can tell. But other times, though, i can't tell which method is being used
well if the camera was pointed right at the sky or something really far away with absolutely nothing in the foreground, i wouldn't be able to tell.
but if there's anything relatively close to the lens (using close loosely here), you can definitely tell that the camera is moving through space. often more of certain objects can be revealed through the movement.
well you could always do something really cheap and depending on how good of a craftsman you are (probably not the best idea) but if you had a slider track that you could set the camera on and tilt down at a small angle just enough so it takes forever to slide down to the bottom from gravity over the course of the timelapse. but again probably not the best idea
Haha, I tried this out a while back. Worked pretty well. Granted its using a GoPro so the quality is far in-superior to a DSLR, but was fun none the less.