Lightning Strike - 60 FPS - with slow motion

[DeathKnocksAtTheDoor]

Thor is too fast...cant record hes strikes..sorry to inform you.

[emretje12]

what is actually 60 fps or 120?

i use 120 fps whenever i play videogames, if i use 60 fps i lag.

any1 anwer please?

[ShortAnimal]

Stop it on @0:47

[kozmon0t]

Thor doesn't like churches but there was something behind that tree he disliked even more.

Still the church steeple was a good bet. Thor's always taking pot shots at those.

[MrSnurvel]

fpsrussia

[miles305678]

Epic video I love lightning, this was an amazing catch, even though I try to record any storm I see never got any like this (Plus cell phone camera is...) Thanks for sharing this with us and also thanks for the detailed info in the description!

[ThePoopoo098]

Are you fucking serious, your showing me slower and slower motion and you calling it SMALLER AND SMALLER numbers. Your an idiot...The slower motion a film has the HIGHER the frames per second are....google it retard.

[PkerWhomerang]

@ThePoopoo098 rofl retard you sure fucked up there... now you look like the idiot.

[miles305678]

@ThePoopoo098 No reason to flip out, the ammount of frames in the video is the same no matter what he cannot add frames to the original video, when slower it actually plays fewer frames per second because fewer are passing by per second, however since youtube can only play 30fps it looks better when slow motioned.

[nudeood]

Amazing. =]

[kootallica]

* Thank you very much for taking the time to edit this lightning strike video, I appreciate the different frame rate viewings. Nice work : )

[fieglfull]

thanks alot man i'm looking into slow motion for my own videos and the camera i have been looking at is 60 or 30fps. this made me decide to get 60. its 60 fps and 720p HD so hopefully the slow motion quality will be good?

[HyenaStudios]

@fieglfull:

I have used a currently old Digi-Cam in 2007: Canon Ixus 60. It has 60fps on 640x480px. Nowadays you get the same speed in HD for the same price, thats right.

Do not forget that a lightning strike is only visable within 2-3 frames in that speed. You see the glue of the air molecules which have a much slower resonse than the actual electronic strike.

If you want to use a digital camera, I can recommend a Canon one. If you want to use a video camera, I prefer a Panasonic one.

[BladeDayBreak]

lol the slow motion was cool specially the sound

[sccerstr09]

@symnzxx it looks great to me!

[symnzXx]

dumb

you can't record lightning without a good camera

60 fps is not good enough

[HyenaStudios]

@symnzXx

Then use your faster digicam and record your own lightning strike ;)

You also can't! ;)

[TheFXGuy]

60 fps isn't that smooth... that's closer to 120 fps if not more.

looks like a fade in.

[HyenaStudios]

@TheFXGuy :

The original recording speed for this video was 60fps. For the slow motion parts each original frame was faded to the following frame, so you are right about the smoothness in this part :) .

[TheFXGuy]

@HyenaStudios ah

[Rafael221195]

..... la pergunta???.......

[mapaniju]

This is 30 fps idiot

[HyenaStudios]

Ahem! YouTube only supports 30fps max. The original video was recorded with 60fps. That's why I have added slow motion replays to give the higher recording speed credtis. Idiotic, isn't it?! ;)

[ISamuelII]

Nice. I imagine each twist and turn away from the main downward core is an insect or bird getting zapped. A shame for the birds up there eating those bugs, but what chuh gonna do.

[VidPro95]

Yeah Dumbass

[LysosTarcho]

Fantastic 5\5

[djoike]

I like.

[gateway18]

So thats what thunder sounds like in super slow motion at 1:09

[RavettiVideos]

He said it was fake sound. Good job with that though- great vid

[TheAbcd1234mk]

shit boi! you don't wanna get hit by that! 1:09

[sk8ips]

@gateway18 lol

[michal1231994]

ale podniete ma ze piorun strzelil

[HyenaStudios]

Well, some details about lightning strikes:

Normally, the lower clowd shift strikes to ground earth. It first breaks through the atmosphere, with a low light. Once it hits the ground, the actual discharge takes place, and THIS is the bright lightning strike you actually see. The discharge current ionizes the 'air electrons' and make them illuminate. Once a discharge tunnel was build up, it is easy for strong storm clouds to strike again into same tunnel, because this tunnel was already ionized.

[atrickpay11]

What kind of camera was this recorded with?

[HyenaStudios]

Oh, it was just a silly Canon Digital Ixus 65 with Res. 320x240 and 60fps settings.

[atrickpay11]

Hyena: holy shit...that's impressive that a digital camera can record at 60fps!

Most camcorders can't even do that!

[HyenaStudios]

Yes, that's very fancy for a digicam. The new version, Canon Digital Ixus 80 has the same features and is much cheaper. The only limit for both models and 60fps recordings are a 1 minute total recording time. For all other video settings the limit is 1GB file size. Currently this camera cost about 130€. I hope I could help.

[eteokles3]

the new casios can record 1000 fps....

[atrickpay11]

Eteokles: wow, just searched on Google...that is impressive. And supposedly the price is gonna be only $1000-msrp!

That is cheap.

[atrickpay11]

Furthermore, the Casio EX-F1 is a digital camera!

It's not even a camcorder. Weird.

[xxmeeoowxx]

gorgeous!

[Pnoexz]

1:02 sounds almost exactly as counter strike's de_aztec map xD.

[archknight20]

You must ask, how does the lightning know which path is the shortest? It knows because it tries all paths until it finds one that connects to the ground and then all the other paths get sucked into that one real quickly. Not a very technical explanation, but it is about right.

[sykick64]

@ archnight.. not very technical.. but it IS RIGHT!

OUR EYES HAVE THER LIMITATIONS.. WE ARE ONLY GLORIFIED APES AFTER ALL..

IT IS VERY WRONG TO ASSUME THAT ALL THAT WE CAN SEE IS all THAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD..

THERE IS SIMPLY A DIFFERENT "COLOURED VISION - (A) VIOLET RAIN" IF YOU WILL look that up on youtube THAT ONE DAY PERHAPS GIVEN THE WAY TECHNOLOGY IS PROGRESSING.. WE MIGHT TAP IN2..

[creaothceann]

It doesn't always go the shortest route. See /watch?v=qLvRvanRFR8

[x0xHalebopx0x]

It takes the route that hits the ground first.

[archknight20]

Like I said, I am not being technically correct here. The shortest distance between any two points (in Euclidean space) is a straight line, which lightning almost never takes (I can't say for sure it is never). However, it is like the electrons are searching out a path to the ground and are taking multiple routes until the one of those routes connect and then it abandons the others. The the path that hits first may not be the shortest terms of space, but it is in terms of resistance.

[HyenaStudios]

This is correct. The main lightning route depends only on resistance and distance. This is a physical law - nature tries to find the less energy consuming paths. Nature has no catalysators!

[SeanThaBomb]

The path that lightning takes is highly unpredictable (and far from a straight line) because the combination of gases in our atmosphere which we call "air" has an extremely high resistance. The electrons travel through the gas that has the least resistance, and because all of the gases are mixed together, it can't just go straight through all the other, less conductive gases.

I don't know much about this, but I do know a lot about physics, and this seems logical to me.

[archknight20]

ah... a physicist. Well, let's be more technical. this is probably a result of the principle of least time, or its derivative, the principle of least action. We can write an action integral for the electromagnetic wave and the path that it ultimately ends up taking would be a minimum of that integral.

[HyenaStudios]

@SeanThaBomb:

Yes, that's also quite well explained. The reality is also a bit more complicated. The air in the real atmosphere is highly chaotic - due to turbulences in density and charge. Also, during the first discharge path from the clouds to earth, the neighbours of the next air bundle will be changed due to heating, expansion, et al. Together, a chaotic path to ground will be created. But, this is just one example of a lightning strikes (LS between 2 different clowd layers can also occur)

[ubfunkey2]

cool

[ilkiepie45]

beautiful!

[bosshogg013641]

if lightning strikes go on the path of least restistance and closet object why doesnt it strike straight down instead of zigzagging in the air?

[gangstabrutha]

its trying to find the quickest way down

while dicharging all of the nearby power in the clouds...

thats what i think and it makes sense to me

[popelt64]

if it didn't do that it just wouldn't be so awesome too look at

[kyle2mild]

That's awesome that,

[FryChicken]

Warum bestehen die Deutschen darauf das sie alles auf Englisch schreiben.... Hallo... ihr seit Deutsch, also bitte, die Amerikaner dürfen Deutsch lernen, nicht anders rum.

[malcolmmcdermott]

Weil die Deutscher lehrnen Englisch als sie kleine kinder sind und wir beginnen Welt-sprache nichts bis euhren siebten Jahre.

[FryChicken]

Deutschland = ein Deutsches Land. Die Idee das alle Deusche schon von klein auf Englisch lernen müssen ist blöd.

Das dürfen die Schüler entscheiden.

[malcolmmcdermott]

Stimmt, ich glaube dich, ich habe nur die frage antwortet, ich denke es ist doof auch.

[FryChicken]

Ja, mein Kommentar war mehr für alle gedacht, nicht für dich. Heh, aber ich selber habbe noch nie in Deutschland gewohnt... bin aber Deutscher Bürger.

[HyenaStudios]

Ich gebe Dir völlig recht. I bin auch ein Anti-Veranglikaner! Aber, wir sind hier auf YouTube. Und darum werden die Informationen zu diesem Video auf Englisch übersetzt. Schliesslich hat der Inhalt dieses Videos keinen exklusiven Inhalt für Deutschland! Oder?!?

[malcolmmcdermott]

neja, es ist in die ecke oben rechts, echt? oder, ist das auch auf Englisch fuer die Information?

[mattgav23]

great job editing and whatnot. 5*!!!

[hotdog98765]

hey, everyone. i have a program witch can tell the distance of each lightning. you just have to use a stopwatch to know the time between the lightning and it's sound. and the program calculates the distance from the time. ... this was approx. 1 KM (0.62 mile) away.

[HyenaStudios]

Actually, some more explanations are needed: Sure, the sound speed in air is 330 m/s, but, you also have to know what you start/stop with your stopwatch. The first crackle of the lightning strike sound is just the impact, the following sound is the discharge which makes the loudest (rumble) noise and should be used for distance measurements to the impact place. This is important especially for lightnings in far distances. I can explain it in details later.

[Coolieoh49]

lol the last one looks fake!

[JohnMayer07]

I love how 60 fps is an excellent framerate, but we won't be able to see lightning moving for a few centuries.

[HyenaStudios]

Totally correct! ;)

[fifimcflea]

we may never get there at all :P

[HyenaStudios]

We will, since the speed of the lightning strike (visable) does not reflect the speed of the electronic decharge but the speed of the air molecule heating, which is MUCH slower. ;)

[mtnmark]

nice editing, excellent

[olson1917]

damn awsome

[willempie15]

Wow, really cool :o

Deathman rts nl