Video Tips: The "Bullet Time" Effect

[InzaneMovies]

Why dont u record it, with muliple cameras, then morph it? looks much better

[coolcam262]

I'm working on an effect where you only need to cameras

[FatLingon]

A few tips, tweak the contrasts so each picture matches the video. Calibrate the angles of the cameras before gluing them(preferably, mount them with a screw(tripod mount screw) to a piece of wood. And also, no foreground objects.

You could also use software that morphs photos into each others and render them into an animation(there are free software for that), then you could put more distance between the cameras(and increase the effect dramatically both in fluidness/duration and angle).

[LucasMonis123]

wth ? the final effect it just looked like it lagged and went green i uno but good vid i guess still made an effect lol

[ClubPenguinProVideos]

wax is the poor man's sony vegas, lol NO OFFENCES

[zPRESSzSTARTz]

@ClubPenguinProVideos Agreed, It even looks like Sony Vegas

[thebuilderddd]

how do you get the xVid?

[coolcam262]

You need more cameras

[TooHuman]

@coolcam262 You need more cowbell

[hpathbp25]

I did it with my school. We raided the Photo Club camera closet and stole 30 cameras. Instead of one film camera we had two, one on each end of a 30 camera semi-circle. It went 180 degrees around someone jumping, and then the video continued.

[elazeez]

@hpathbp25

IN case you didn't know it, stealing is a crime and a sin my friend.

[hpathbp25]

It was our Film Teacher's idea, don't blame me!

[elazeez]

Oh Ok.. In that case, I am no one to question your teacher's reasons for giving that idea, because a teacher is one who has the best interests of his/her students in mind well atleast s/he is supposed to.

BTW, it must have been one great video that you guys shot with all those cams. Care to post it on youtube sometime?

[hpathbp25]

Because it was a class project, only the teacher has access to it. I haven't seen it for 4 years.

[elazeez]

OiC... Nevermind then. I'm sure it must have been an amazing learning experience :)

[notsocomicaltv]

@elazeez incase you didnt know, you're a fag

[elazeez]

@notsocomicaltv

Ha ha.. you ((tried really hard but just couldn't)) make a funny ((by virtue of your low IQ))!

[notsocomicaltv]

@elazeez no i just felt that you were giving ou the fag vibe. just so that you are aware my IQ is 138, which is two short of genius. i base my opinions on facts which present themselves, whereas you base your unworthy opinion on a misguided sense of morality and essentially what you feel like at the time. what i am trying to say is, i had your mother

[elazeez]

@notsomicaltv

I should have taken note of the adage "Never argue with fools, because they drag you down to their levels (of foolishness) and then beat you with their good experience!"

Yes, you beat me real bad, you person with an IQ 'too short of genius'... and that's not a typo.

-----

Besides, I don't even know where you came from or how I originally ruffled your feathers in the first place. In case I did something unintentionally that hurt your sentiments, know this that it wasn't personal.

[notsocomicaltv]

really, if its not a typo, you should learn to spell. and just to clarify, i dont have feathers

[bejack83]

who are you? McGyver? :) nice!!

[OGboy2009]

no effect....

[WillJStudio]

So, what is the effect?

[ArgWater]

lame

[miluziana]

i can do it lol it doesnt look like in matrix (i never expected to) but it looks cool

[Kphobia]

why dont u just use a digital camera

[sciencefreak2402]

yea, some cameras can take 16 pics a second. More than enough.

[napolihuhn]

how is the nam eof this video programm say pls

[XF3DeX]

that is shit

[SilvaOne]

the final effect looks shit in this video sorry

[alex53135]

ye it does. the concept tho. I would use that inspector gadget way tho. and not that girl either.

[HandyBanana666]

That's why this technique was never really used before the Matrix. The Wachowski bros had the budget to make rigs with identical cameras, unlike previous attempts which always had inconsistencies. Anything else uses CGI, photoshop and other computer effects to blend the shots properly.

[sgtnimitz]

kinda old school, not really as good alternative but great way of thinking.

The explaining of the tutorial is what got to me :D

5/5 bud

[callforhelp62]

This is actually exactly how they do it in Hollywood. The pros obviously don't use disposable cameras or clothes pins but they both use the same concept.

[sgtnimitz]

really? wow haha sorry for my narrow mindness :P thanks for the info man!

[callforhelp62]

Yeah. I think the pros use sometimes upwards of 100 D-SLR cameras all mounted to a curved steel frame that "wraps" around the subject.

The cameras all have electronic, timed shutters so they can have a still fly around or they take a picture seamlesly one after another so it creates a slo-mo fly around.

It's a very simple, primitive concept that creates an amazingly futuristic effect.

[cacapalloro]

Acually it's not made like that...They use special cameras that capture thousands more frames per second that a regular camera.

[callforhelp62]

No... that's how they record plain slow motion. This video teaches how to create the slow motion fly-around effect that was made popular by the Matrix.

[HandyBanana666]

2 camera effects were used in the movie (and subsequent movies). One was a fairly traditional highspeed camera, and the other was a rig consisting of several cameras all set up to take a photograph at the exact same time, with the same settings (exp, iso, so on). I believe they were digital and computer-controlled. After that, they added in CGI to fill in the gaps and erased the visible cameras.

[callforhelp62]

Thank you!

[WillJStudio]

I saw a video which said the cameras on the green-screen set fired sequentially.

[sonic000004]

I love every one of your video's!

keep'em comin!

[Faluci]

wow i bit they bought shitamount of money for the matrix movie xD

[nabzcakz]

Nice alternative! Thanks for sharing.

[babyhughey14]

not one of your best videos,

but good thanks

[a1425]

you can just use windows movie maker and get the frames of the video and edit them. it would be a lot easier and not cost anything

[neothematrixhacker]

very nice try considering that the effect in the matrix costed literally millions of dollars

[fatman999999]

yet another great video =)

[souldagger14]

lol thats not a hard project at all

[sley2005]

love your videos but didnt the light on this one

[lenny7494]

ROCK!!!

[jakevega45]

i think u rock man u make great vids

[method4uandme]

that wasn't very good

[r0cki13]

this kinda sucked, horrible effect

[gigafide]

agreed. but the video was to see if the concept would work...it did, but with less than great results. if it were done with a dozen dslr camera's, it would be an excellent effect. but alas, i am cheap.

[weznilez]

LMAO...ahh come on... hes trying to replicate a million dollar CGI effect for cheap if you take that into consideration its a dope job

[rickcas5]

what the fuck? Where's the bullet?

[Irixion]

Do you even know what bullet time is? You add the bullet in later. The effect is the 'spin around' thing.

[spazmonkey2]

wrong

[shadow9x1a79]

i thought it would be a like 3d little bullet

[SewellMark]

i thought it was going to be a bullet time with a bullet like the videocopilot ones ....hint hint

[Rhams3y]

not what you normally do, but still a cool video. i agree that it needs a better example video though, this one was kind of short.

[Samotny13]

Hey.

No offence I love your vids... but I think you need to put up another example vid. This one didn't really have much of an effect to properly demonstrate the "matrix effect" imo. Then again perhaps I'm just crazy.

[CyanProductions]

He used low quality camera's and a higher quality video recorder that's why the grain is different. This is more like a Chuck Norris effect though. In the matrix they are fully moving. Not a bad video, but also not a great one, I'll give it 3 stars.

[gigafide]

CyanProductions is right. to keep it cheap, i used disposable cameras. otherwise you'd be spending hundreds of dollars per camera. while it would be more effective, it would also cost somewhere between the one thousand and ten thousand dollar range.

[Samotny13]

whoa... that's nuts. Now I understand.

[Zereul82]

cool

[Laretheman]

Nice, very creative! I don't think I'll ever use this, but it's cool to know how to do it.

[1983AK]

*****

[rickcas5]

BOO YOU SUCK!

[dragoncandyguy]

3rd comment

[jokso232]

Weee, 2nd comment!

Very nice tutorial...

[migzz04]

nice