LA to Vancouver BC in Ten Minutes

Time delay images taken 1 a second while driving from Los Angeles to Vancouver Canada.

I captured most of the trip and edited 35 minutes of video down to this 10 minute sequence using iMovie 08.

Tools: Macbook Pro seat belted down, external iSight camera rigged to the passenger side visor, capture software was iStopMotion 2, Home edition, Garage Band to create the audio clip.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• time lapse
• stop motion
• Los Angeles
• Vancouver
• Sacramento
• Seattle
• I-5

[SkyloftLink]

can u give me advice on how to do this type of video because im going a similar one from Detroit,MI to Tampa,FL on I-75, i get a new camera from a Best Buy in Detroit and then i start the vid from detroit to tampa,FL

[reelyvid]

@SkyloftLink Unless a video camera has an intervalometer feature, they are not usable for long distance trips as they take 30fps and you'd run out of space quickly in that mode. Converting regular video would also need software to pull every Nth frame to create a time lapse. The iSight I used is a video web cam and combined with the software on my laptop, I was able to choose every Nth frame and save just those.

[reelyvid]

@SkyloftLink If you want to just use a camera, buy a small still point & shoot digital camera with a built in intervalometer. That feature would likely be buried in the menu system somewhere. Most digital cameras do NOT have that feature. Set the image size smaller than the native size as this process requires a lot of recording space. Choose a size no smaller than the video output size you are targeting.

[reelyvid]

@SkyloftLink First read the description under the video. That tells you the tools I used. As noted in a post 5 days ago, I used an inverter to power my laptop. I now use my CameraTime iOS app.

[reelyvid]

@SkyloftLink Forgot to say, practice before you go on your trip.

[cynicalbluewhale]

Sorry to double post, but I'm driving from Detroit to Québec city in just over a week and I want to attempt something similar to this, how did you go about mounting the isight? and how long did you find the MBP battery lasted? The drive itself is just over a day, so we'll do it in two.

[reelyvid]

@cynicalbluewhale To rig the iSight, I used bungie cord to fix it to the passenger visor.

I had an inverter plugged into the cigarette lighter that fed power to the laptop. At the beginning, I had forgot to plug into the inverter and I think it lasted about 1.5 hrs.

I now use an iPod touch with CameraTime, an app I wrote and available in the App Store. I have a cigarette lighter adapter for that too for long drive sequences. Unplugged starting with a full charge, it might last an hour or two.

[joelin70]

Nice video...loved the stop at Tim Ho's at the end.

[cynicalbluewhale]

Enter Canada, Get Timmies. I lol'd

[rockerkiddevin]

skipped Olympia ):