Still Motion Magic - Sample Video

Jim H wrote on 3/6/2006, 7:59 PM

Here's something I did for fun this past Fall after picking up Still Motion. I tapped out the beat with markers and Still Motion did the rest. I could have spent a lot more time tweaking it but most of the transitions were just fine as is. What a time saver.

http://www.wakelydam.com/Video/xcountry.wmv

Comments

randy-stewart wrote on 3/6/2006, 8:33 PM

Very entertaining and excellent photography. Amazing what a little creativity and good tools can produce. Nice work.
Randy

tkalvey wrote on 3/6/2006, 8:38 PM

Still Motion...

program or add on

DavidMcKnight wrote on 3/6/2006, 8:40 PM

Still Motion - http://vasst.com/product.aspx?id=ec6a625b-926a-4e3b-b688-c3e3d5fc3acd

Also included in UltimateS 2 , which is also from VASST. Cool stuff.

johnmeyer wrote on 3/6/2006, 10:24 PM

I liked the use of different aspect ratios for the picture (i.e., something other than full screen or portrait crop of 35mm aspect). I need to do more of that. Also like the cartoon balloons. I'm sure they were also popular with your audience.

Grazie wrote on 3/6/2006, 11:20 PM

Excellent! Great use fo that W - i - d - e openning shot. I did notice the final "reversed" text on "Seth's" (?) vest. Yeah, "Yah can't always get what you want . . . " . . Nit picking Grazie 'ere!

I'd have had the "Shout" of the coach starting "tight" on his mouth and then zoom out.

The balloons were great. And the animations - Pythonesque - were great too!

Where was it shown? What response did you get?

Thanks for sharing,

Graham

Jim H wrote on 3/7/2006, 10:24 AM

Every year for the last three years I've taken photos at the meets. Starting with my little Cannon Elf I found that it was just as easy to take photos of all of the kids and not just my two. So I put together a little slide show in Vegas. Now I'm doing it for the track team too. Once I got my new Nikon D70 with two 1gig cards, I found the numbers of photos was too much to handle the old way. With SM I'm able to put 50-60 photos in a song in a snap.

The coach is often the butt of the jokes - the guys seem to really like that turn around is fair play stuff... (He really isn't 4 ft tall as I got him looking there)

This past year I ended up with just under a half hour of video that covered the whole season. I showed it from my laptop through a projector on a nice big screen.. Had I thought of it I would have started the projects at the full resolution of the projector...but still it looks quite good. The kids and parents seem to enjoy it.

I'll post a few more sections later. I was worried about my server space when I started sharing links to video... but as it turns out I barely use 2% of the monthly bandwidth...so more video to come.