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Fast-Forward editing...actually kinda sick

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steez_louise
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stumbled across this edit


go to 3:27 if you want to skip the horrendously long intro
Oct 4 2011 3:05PM
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willy_baller
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thats crazy. it looks like claymation
Oct 4 2011 3:21PM
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EthanJPAskier
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Not to be a dick but...you're kidding right?
Oct 4 2011 3:25PM
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stupendous-man
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haha same. song was wack though
Oct 4 2011 3:27PM
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403MEDIA
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That video was shot with a tilt shift lens.. thats why everything looks mini
Oct 4 2011 3:28PM
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b-ladd
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Damn, some of those lines were burly.
Oct 4 2011 3:29PM
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Flying~Squirrel
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what is that?
Oct 4 2011 3:38PM
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WillStart
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt-shift_photography

it's a lens that changes the plane of focus. they're meant to be used for architecture photography but they can also be used for 'miniature faking,', which is what you see in the video.
Oct 4 2011 3:41PM
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farmskier
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Nope, it's just an effect, this was not shot with a TS lens.
Oct 4 2011 4:01PM
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4FRNT
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I'm ruined on all tilt-shift videos after this one (not skiing related). Everything else just doesn't add up.



PS - I see you farmskier!
Oct 4 2011 4:35PM
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403MEDIA
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Ah didnt read the description in the video.. looks identical to what a tilt shift lens produces though. Thats pretty interesting, seems like that would have taken a long time in post. cool
Oct 4 2011 4:35PM
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chicken
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or they could have cut out the first 3 mins of the video and made a same length edit with normal motion skiing.
Oct 4 2011 4:42PM
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farmskier
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Well then, check these ones out, if you haven't seen 'em already.

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.




Coachelletta from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

Oct 4 2011 6:23PM
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maxwell666
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kidding about what?
Oct 4 2011 7:31PM
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Caspaaa
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i second that it looks like claymation
Oct 4 2011 7:39PM
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That_One_Dude
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Thats sick, it literally looked like a toy or a model at first.
Oct 4 2011 8:18PM
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KillaSteeze
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that was terrible
Oct 4 2011 8:39PM
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Pool.
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ur joking right?
Oct 4 2011 8:47PM
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Where-am-I
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actually its pretty easy to mass edit images to all have the same effect
Oct 4 2011 9:03PM
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maxwell666
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you cant "mass edit" the toy effect, its a dynamic blur and unusual plane of focus of a tilt shift that makes the effect, since this was shot on a dslr with a regular lense, they just used a small aperture to get a deep depth of field and dragged an elliptical blur over the subject, with the poles of the ellipse being in a different spot for each shot.
Oct 4 2011 10:10PM
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k-fred
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not gonna lie, this song make meClick for larger image
Oct 4 2011 10:14PM
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Where-am-I
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well good sir i beg to disagree, i dont know what you mean by elliptical blur or how  aperture is even relevant or what the fuck a "dynamic" blur is, i do know however that since these are stop motion movies (at least the sandpit is) is that they are a series of still images played at a fast rate in order. each image has been edited in photoshop or whatever to have a fake blur that immatates what you would get with a tilt shift lens and gives the allusion of depth of field thus making the shot look "toy like". i also know that if you create a cynidrical gradient mask in ps and add a blur filter that creates this effect. i also know you can mass edit images in photoshop to all have the exact same alterations made to each photograph (ive done this numerous times so please don't tell me it cant be done) from there you throw them all into a movie editing software and boom, miniature big world movie. at least that's how i would do it.

also its spelled lens not "lense"

also im not quite sure how me changes "focus"' in the sandpit in one shot, that he could have done frame  by frame
Oct 5 2011 12:26AM
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4FRNT
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I think the Sandpit video was shot with an actual TS lens, so you would be able to change the field of focus in camera.

You could definitely batch process each image individually for the time-lapse shots, but it would be a lot more efficient to do it in After Effects once you've create a movie (on second thought, you could probably move your focus the same way). You could also use it for videos like the OP.


Oct 5 2011 12:35AM
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Jibbin_Ur_Face
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Thats was sick
Oct 5 2011 12:45AM
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LDV
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Whatever that was, those coulouir lines were nasty.
Oct 5 2011 12:54AM
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Where-am-I
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Actually it wasn't! It was done with a plug-in for after effects! So i was a little off, but i've been trying my own TS movies through photoshop. ive seen TS effects done in final cut pro, but i've always been a little scared to try as i'm far more comfortable with ps, sounds like i should give it a try though. Here is a full interview with the creator of the Sandpit on how he did it if anyone else is curious. http://aerofilm.blogspot.com/2010/02/sandpit-short-film-by-aero-director-sam.html

Oct 5 2011 12:56AM
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ski0
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That run at 2:50 looks sick! is that inbounds?
Oct 5 2011 1:22AM
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WillStart
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perhaps it was actually stop motion, but it's quite easy to record a time lapse video (or make a video out of stills), then export that video at a slower frame rate (say 12 or 15fps) to give a stop motion effect. then the tilt shift effect would only have to be added to the video, instead of frame by frame.



Oct 5 2011 6:16AM
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iffe
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They have done some very nasty thing to Pink Floyd. Song was the worst.
Oct 5 2011 7:06AM
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PBraunstein
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im not sure what that kids on.. but anyone adding the TS effect frame by frame is smoking crack. its so easy to make actual stop motion, drag all the shots into FCP or AE, and then lay your TS filter onto the video.

you honestly have to be insane to try and batch process all of your photos with a TS effect... especially if you plan on moving the point of focus.
Oct 5 2011 8:47AM
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WillStart
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to be fair, you would probably be surprised by how many people don't realize how simple it is to make a stop motion-esque clip out of regular video (or a series of stills turned into a video). i've had multiple kids ask me how i achieved the stop motion effect in a ts edit i made (with a real ts lens, not gimmicky shit), and when i tell them to simply export at a low frame rate, they are kind of embarrassed by how obvious it is. i actually couldn't figure it out either when i first started playing with ts a couple years ago. it's so obvious that a lot of people don't even realize it.


but i agree, trying to do that frame by frame would be a complete nightmare.
Oct 5 2011 8:57AM
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PBraunstein
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exporting to different framerates is the name of the game for me.. i do a retarded amount of FR converting for my shit.. (i shoot mostly all 720/60 and anything that gets played back at real speed gets converted into 24) if i speed up a shot to above real speed, ill drop a few frames and it adds an even more 'speedy' effect to the shot.
Oct 5 2011 9:07AM
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Brentizzle
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looks like somebody is dumb. i would just add the TS effect from magic bullet looks to the whole clip or use a REAL TS lens.
Oct 5 2011 1:19PM
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Where-am-I
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this thread is going in circles, yes i was mistaken they were edited in after effects (at least the sandpit) using a plugin. but i already said this earlier in the thread. . .
in general it seems there are a plethora of ways to get a very similar effect
Oct 5 2011 2:14PM
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