Time Lapse: The Storm - Perfect sunset thunderstorm over EL Paso

[ryn0518]

Lived in El paso all my life, we have sum of the best desert sunsets and storms =) cheerz to this great vid !!!

[stevecrye]

@ryn0518 Thanks, hoping for more storms this year. BTW there is a short section of my San Juan time lapse where I cheated and stuck in some El Paso clouds - see if you can spot it.

[Landotter1]

Stunning... Great job!!!

[stevecrye]

@Landotter1 Thanks, I really appreciate the kind words and your taking the time to watch and comment. If you liked this one, please check out my "Fantasia on a (time-lapse) Theme of Thomas Tallis - that one was my summer project. And, I'm working on more, trying to improve.

[Landotter1]

@stevecrye You're welcome and THANK YOU!!! Will-do bro... please keep 'em comin' :-D Wish I had the gear and smarts to do this.... I LOVE watching the weather and nature!!!

[networkplummer]

Very nicely done! Were there multiple views of the same occurrences?  Would be interested in camera/techniques you used. That was neat in that you had storm and sunset colors happening at same time. (I currently use a digital camera with a CHDK intervalometer and sew the resulting jpegs into videos.)

Thanks

[stevecrye]

@networkplummer HI, Thanks for the comment. I have only one cam, so was not able to capture multiple views. For info on the techniques (which are evolving with every new vid), have a look at these vids on my channel: "Sony Vegas Tutorial: Time-Lapse clouds + slow motion lightning, compositing, overlays, Huffy, VeeDub " , and also read the "info" in this vid: :Time Lapse: Durango CO to Silver City NM in 1800 mph Toyota Corolla " . I've been looking at intervalometers and want to try that.

[gocountry1391]

thunderstorm really bad for me while disturbance sleep

[stevecrye]

@gocountry1391 Lo siento... Although during thunderstorm season the brilliant flashes of lightning followed by the deafening claps of thunder wake me up, here in El Paso the storms rarely cause damage except for hail. Hail scares me, but not the thunder and lightning. In the desert, one learns to love t-storms - they bring life-giving rain.

[stevecrye]

@squeakyleak Had to wait all the way to the end. Not much - I was dissapointed. Also the TL made it too dim.

[combridge1]

If you go to the Blue Sky stock-footage web page, you will see Bills resume...need I say more after you see that. In YouTube, search Robert Mirabal "Holding Up The Sky" for some of his other work. I just had an friend build me a motor drive...sweet.

[stevecrye]

@combridge1 Hi; the "Holding up the Sky" vid was very nice, I liked it. Thanks for the tip. I'm most impressed by the obviously huge lens he has to be able to capture the stars (I'm an amateur astronomer). The clouds were good; in that particular video he did not get lucky with a huge thundercell, but that is not a reflection of his skill. I can tell he travels far for the shots, including north of the Arctic Circle. Hey, check out SlaveZero1234 and his new Berlin time lapse - hypnotic.

[combridge1]

Ok Steve, go to blueskyfootage You can't even compare to him my friend. That's a promise. You shouldn't put up that kind of a challenge when you can't even come close to real time-lapse. Please see that channel for an ego reducer.

[stevecrye]

@combridge1 But you misunderstand - I genuinely want to see better stuff! Re-read my challenge; nowhere in it did I claim I was the best - I want to see the work of others. In any event, Objectivists like me are do not regard ego as a bad thing. BTW I like your time lapse vids from Durango. This summer, I plan to lug my camera to the summit of something like Trico peak and catch sunrise to sunset. Wish me luck. FYI, this channel has great TL: TimeLapseHD . I lust for the motor drive ...

[stevecrye]

@combridge1 Quick Question - I went to blueskyfootage but did not see anything that immediately caught my attention. Most clips seemed like short samples, no music. Please help me by pointing me to a specific vid that is better than "The Storm" - don't forget that I expect things like transitions timed to the music, time-spans of at least 6 hours, singularly unusual storms, etc. Thanks!

[efrommhold]

Great job! It's fantastic!!! Congrats...

[stevecrye]

@efrommhold Thanks! Summer and spring will be here soon. I hope to lug the camera to the top of a mountain and get some new perspectives. Please stand by ...

[Joan18706]

Gorgeous! Thank you for filming.

[stevecrye]

@Joan18706 Thanks to all for recent comments. Can't wait for next year's Tstrom season!

[astrofranck]

Beautiful video!

[AhmedNoureddine]

a really beautiful video

[stevecrye]

@AhmedNoureddine Thanks, Ahmed!

[xXgothicgrl]

i wander wat a cloud would feel like great video

[stevecrye]

@xXgothicgrl I think it would feel like flight with no need for wings - soaring on thought, one with the air, a vapor in a film of air between ground and infinity ...

[thundermansam]

What an absolutely amazing video...It's mesmerizing, I had to watch the whole thing through, twice! Fantastic job! One of the best time-lapse life cycles I've seen, to date... wish I was there..good job man! do it again:)

[stevecrye]

@thundermansam Wow - I really appreciate your kind words, and I am very glad you enjoyed it. I find myself watching it at least once a month; I too am mesmerized. Thunderstorm season is over, but I'm keeping my eye out for new material - my next goal is to get a full day from sunrise to sunset, from the top of a mountain. I'll be sure to message you. Thanks again, Steve

[dan1paredes]

Hermoso

[stevecrye]

@dan1paredes Graci!

[SlaveZero1234]

wow, so beautiful!

good that you filmed it! :D

[stevecrye]

@SlaveZero1234 Humblest of thanks from Most Low to Most High.

[bsomething]

Well done! :)

[stevecrye]

@bsomething Thanks! These are labor of love, but I really love clouds.

[bsomething]

@stevecrye I still think this is bloody amazing.. and I've made a few time lapses of my own since seeing this :) Do you mind if I ask what kind of camera you're using and how many frames per minute did you shoot at?

[stevecrye]

@bsomething My Sony HDR-CX550V camera and my software (Vegas) are not optimal for time-lapse, so I have to use some trickery. I shoot normal vid, in 5-10 minute clips so that later I will have some scene changes to set to music. With Vegas Pro, I do first-pass time compression of 12:1 - the max Vegas allows. I then take those clips and match them to music, compressing again up to 12:1, stretching to match a music transition . If I had Premier I could do it in one pass! Glad you liked it.

[stevecrye]

@bsomething Oh, I typically shoot the clouds in 9 Mbps HD 1080i mode, 30 fps. The HDR-CX550V is capable of 25 Mbps 10801, but that is overkill for cloud vids for YouTube. I render with Vegas in HD 720p mode.

[TonyEtna1987]

Molto bello questo video.

[stevecrye]

@TonyEtna1987 I like your Lava channel!

[taofledermaus]

That's just awesome! The lightning at the end was a surprise! Great shooting!