Merry Xmas Timelapse In Christchurch, Cathedral Square

I Decided it was a great time of the year to do a Christmas themed Time Lapse, and this was the most Christmasy themed thing i could find in Christchurch. This is shot in 6 Sequence of 15 - 60 minutes, at 2 Second intervals, played back at 15FPS.

Audio needed to be changed as it infringed on WMG (Fair enough).

Work watching to the end for the fire dancers, who will shortly all be named :o)
The Intimible KBG
Russ "The Rev Wolf" Taylor
Sam "Llama Llama Llama" Vardy

Music - Carol of the Bells by Metallica with Trans Siberian Orchestra
Equipment;
Nikon D3100 with 18 - 55mm @ 24mm
SLIK Able 300DX Tripod
Phottix Nikos Intervalometer

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• TimeLapse
• Time Lapse
• Cathedral Square
• Merry Christmas
• Christmas
• Xmas
• Canterbury
• Christchurch
• New Zealand
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• Lights
• Christmas Lights
• Xmas Lights
• Metallica
• Trans Siberian Orchestra
• Carol of the Bells
• Christmas Carol
• Xmas Carol

[cpjfox]

@froschi Hi Froschi,

Just so you know, I'm looking at starting a blog with how-to sections for the different types of movies and pictures I take. Will probably put some kind of update on my youtube channel once it's all ready to go, so if you'd like to see it when it's ready, subscribe to me and you'll get a notification once it's good to go :o)

[froschi]

hi!

loved the video, what software did you use for make this movie, i also recently buyed a D3100 and a timer

[cpjfox]

@froschi You should keep in mind though that the D3100 has a life of maybe 60 - 80k frames, each video sequence like this one is 2 - 4k frames, in 4 months I've put 35,000 frames on mine, and it looks like I've damaged some of the pixels on the cmos sensor, I get pink strips up each side of the frame which need to be cropped out. If your serious about time lapse, consider the likes of a D300 which has time lapse built in IIRC and a rated frame life of 150k.

[cpjfox]

@froschi Oh and also, shoot the video in the smallest jpg format, unless your creating 2k or 4k video, you only need frames at 1920×1080 for 1080hd, the smallest jpg format on the D3100 is 2304x1536 so more than big enough :o)

[Brooook]

Random people - I cried. Beautiful video.

22 random people are buried under the Christchurch Cathedral.

[cpjfox]

@froschi No Trouble at all for the advice. Not sure of your country, but i worked out, based on the cost of the body of my camera, it costs NZ$0.01/frame, so a 2000 frame time lapse costs $20 of camera life. with a D300 costing approx twice what the D3100 does, and having approx twice the frame life, it still costs NZ$0.01/frame . So i guess it's not quite as simple as that.the D3100 does kick the pants off the D300 image quality wise, it's only beaten by the D300s and above (D7000, D700 etc)

[froschi]

@cpjfox hey thanx a lot for the advices, i really didnt know that the d3100 has so short life, this its my very firsr slr cam so im a new at this. i would loved to do hundreds of time lapse videos, but as you said this its not the right camera for that. thanx

froschi

[cpjfox]

@froschi Hi Froschi, I don't use 'software', the original videos are created from the frames using a bash script in Linux. Then I take the clips and create a video, with sound/titles etc using Openshot (also in Linux). If you run linux, or would like to try, i can send you the scripts. Basically you create a .sh (bash) file with the script, then execute the file in the folder with the images, it will then create a video from the frames based on the parameters in the script.

[zutubefan]

perfect