Ha! That was great! Liked the look of the DVX-100A. Great job with the music too.
Randy

Nicely done. Was this done with time laspe recording?

Very good.... both funny and disturbing at the same time :-)

>Was this done with time laspe recording?

Yes. I set the DVX100A to record for 1/2 second every 15 seconds. These are the minimum settings for "interval recording". What I expected was to get exactly 15 frames recorded each 15 seconds. Although I didn't count the frames to be sure, the time-code indicated that this is not exactly what's happening. The actual number of frames recorded seems to vary a bit.

I expected to load this into Vegas as a single clip, speed it up 15X, and have one clean frame every 15 seconds. However, even if you did have exactly 15 frames per capture, it's not quite that easy as Vegas will only speed a clip up by a maximum of 4X. I tried adjusting the playback speed with Media Properties and then also using control-drag to speed it up further, but these are just two wasy to adjust the same setting. Later I wondered if I could have speeded it up 4X with media properties and another 4X with a velocity envelope.

Anyway, I speeded up all the clips by 4X and rendered out to .AVI. Then I loaded those AVIs into a fresh timeline and speded them up again various amounts "to taste".

I got what I wanted, but I'm left wondering if there would be a more precise way to get exactly one and only one frame per 15 second interval.

The other thing I did notice is that there can be some recording errors on the boundary between the clips. Every once in a while I would see those 16x16 pixel dropouts.

Thats was so very entertaining---------kind of summed up XMAS !

Good job!Ü

cool mark, you even had santa claus in the video..the white bearded guy :)

but yeah..it was cool and disturbing too...consumption and time....sped up///raises some philisophical questions. good work darn it, wish i thought of it.

Nice piece. Fun to watch and very cool.

really cool i like how u used the time lapse recording i wish u could do that with mini dv :(

Nice. I remember when I was small enough to fit in a cardboard box! Where did you get the music?

>i wish u could do that with mini dv

But I did do it with mini-DV! You can too. Just use Vegas to speed it up.

>Where did you get the music?

I put it together in ACID. I used loops from Discrete Drums, Hydrophonic Hip-Hop, and Orchestral 3: Cinematic

Enjoyed it - suspect it was played out just that way in millions of households around the world.

Only the dog seems disconnected from the frantic pace around him. Do you suppose he has figured out the meaning of it all?

That was great. Do most Mini DV cameras have time lapse built in. I have a DCR-HC30.

David

I don't think the HC30 has a time-lapse mode. But you can still do it, maybe even better. Just shoot normally and speed up your footage in Vegas. As I described above, you can only speed up by 4X so you may have to make multiple passes. Too bad you can't do 5X since there's no other combination of integer factors that yield 30x.

Regarding a way to get just one frame out of each half second. Scenalyzer Live allows the capture of one frame of video out of X number of frames. I've played with this for capturing from interval recording and it works great. Be sure to start the capture in the middle of a 15 frame section because the # frames does vary. However, the average of 15 frames seems to hold well enough.

www.scenalyzer.com

I've had to do the exact same thing before when I wanted to do time lapse. I have these exotic trees growing in my house called Monkey Pod Rain Trees. At night their leaves fold up tightly and the trees look really small. When the sun comes out in the morning you can almost watch the leaves wake up and spread open. In 15 minutes the trees look really big. So one morning I set up my camcorder and taped them waking up. When I put it in Vegas I could only go so fast, so I had to render it down and import that video back into Vegas and speed it up again. It turned out pretty cool... but I don't know what ever happened to it.

Anyway, cool video. I'm actually working on my Christmas video right now! :D Well, it's rendering right now, I worked on it last night.

Catwell, how is that scene analyzer any different than Vidcap that comes bundled with Vegas? Using firewire you can anable scene detection and each scene gets written to its own .avi file. What does scene analyzer do that Vidcap doesn't?

You can speed up a clip up to 12x in vegas, with a combination of a 300% velocity envelope and a 4.00 playback rate set on the clip properties.

As mentioned above, scenalyzer will do it too, and is a great program for capturing DV in general, as well as timelapse. Things it can do that vidcap won't include:

timelapse
various file types (Type1 DV, WAV, Canopus DV, etc)
optical scene detection
more picture export options
max capture settings (file size, length) (available in vidcap but not intuitive)
etc

try it yourself and see!

Scenealyzer has a function called time lapse capturing. It will capture 1 frame out of every N frames. You can set N to be whatever you like. This means that during the capture process you create your time lapse video without having to do anything more in Vegas. You only capture what you need saving disk space as well.

I normally use Vidcap because it is right there within Vegas, but when I need to do something different then I use Scenalyzer. It is a great program when you need it.

Got it. I now understand the differences between the two programs. I think I'll download it and play around with it a little bit.

Simply wonderful. And . . . wonderfully simple. Thank you for sharing. Nice Christmas pressie for us Forum members. G

That was great, nice job with the music. I know there is interval recording on my sony (is that the same thing you used?). I have never used it because I heard it put a lot of wear on the camera?

Jeff