Timelapse GoPro Hero2 Pan & Zoom

The new GoPro HD Hero2 now shoots 11MP stills (vs 5MP from the hero1) and can shoot 0.5 second interval 11MP images for timelapses (vs approx 1.4s interval from the Hero1).

So why shoot 11MP when the highest resolution video is only 2MP (1920 x 1080 = 2 073 600) ?

Well, with so many surplus pixels, one can crop to create a "synthetic zoom", and move that crop across successive images to create the effect of a camera pan.

This 1280x720 pixel video demonstrates this capability.

It starts off with a frame cropped to exactly 120x720 pixels, then zooms out to the full width of 3840 pixels (resized to 1280). zooms in again all the way, then that crop is panned around the scene.

The final effect looks very much like a video camera zooming in then panning around a bit.

This is just a proof of concept video. In real usage, the zoom would likely be much slower, more like a creep-in, and the pans should be very slow. Another idea is to use Motion Tracking for the pan to follow something of interest across the scene.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Time Lapse
• GoPro HD Hero2
• Hero2
• GoPro
• Keith Pickersgill

[PunkBoy755]

@ran556 the zoom is added in post-production as the uploader said in the description.

11mp gives you lots of room to work with in video..

[ran556]

Beautiful...

Can you please explain how did you make the zoom?

Because as far as I know -

There is no zoom in Gopro Hero2

[BlueJayProd]

tutorial please :))))

[scareycarey21]

you should add music