sky

Early morning, 11th January 2009. Driving home the sky presented a plethora of blues, oranges, pinks and purples.

This was one of the first things I shot on my new acquisition, a Samsung VP-HMX20C. Colours are as the camera captured them and very true to what my eye saw. Sped up some of it 300% to get more movement in the clouds.

Bit dull though, isn't it? Music would help.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• sky
• hd
• winter
• clouds
• cloud
• colours
• colors
• hmx20
• hmx20c
• vp-hmx20c

[passionfruitbuddy]

This looks very similar to the view out of my house on a night! I have ordered this camera off the internet and it should come anytime soon! does it have time lapse? :)

[fidgejufter]

Afraid not. It does have the opposite of that though, a slow motion mode that films at 250 frames per second for 10 seconds (playing back in 50 seconds). But no, no time lapse. You'd have to hook it up to a laptop/PC interface card via the component/s-video outputs- or the HDMI, but you'd have to work out a way of mounting it in the cradle, since that's the only route to get HDMI out of the camera.

[fidgejufter]

Oh, or of course, depending on how frequently you're doing the timelapse and for how long, you could remove the SD card, swap in a fresh one, and download it onto your computer, then pass it through a speed up filter.

[fidgejufter]

Thanks!

I'd advise anyone to get their camera out more often, see how they respond to different light conditions...don't worry if it seems "worthy" of filming, just to it for the experience, see what works and what doesn't.

[genocidepv]

did you edit to get the slo-mo? bc when you use the slo-mo thing it doesnt record on widescreen, i think :s y just bought it today xD

[fidgejufter]

The Timewarp effect is really pretty good though- it has an optional algorithm to better work out what the "new" frames should look like, but it is damn slow to render...I'd guess on my Core 2 Quad Q6600 based machine, it was running a fifth or less of real-time!

[fidgejufter]

Yes, it has the standard quarter-inch tripod socket (+ VHS pin) underneath.

[fidgejufter]

I edited it in Avid Media Composer 3.0, and yes, used its Timewarp effect to control the speed. The camera's slow-motion has two major limitations- it is limited to capturing 10 seconds of real-time footage, and secondly, as you point out, it uses a much lower resolution (below PAL, it's merely 448x336) and requires lots and lots of light.