Video

[RobDickinson]

.. not as easy as it looks lol. OK it doesnt look easy, so this is my first (crap) published vid, 7D at 720/50 downmixed to 720/25, 17-55f2.8IS at f2.8, god knows what ISO , going to :gasp: have to read the manual...

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Mixed (?) with vegas pro to HD 720p mp4 thingey (going to have to figure out containers/codecs oneday too..)

[Ono]

Not too bad Rob.

WHat was the file size you uploaded incidently? I still haven't opened my 7D yet :eek: but have been looking to get a 16 or 32gb CF.

[RobDickinson]

Think the upload was about 150meg.

[Fozzybear]

I haven't tried proper video editing although I've uploaded clips taken on a compact and a little camcorder. Looks like the 7D is pretty good for video, my brother has done some video on his 5D II and that was really impressive.

I've experimented with video on my Nikon D300... well, time-lapse:

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[GarethH]

How do you do time lapse? Any guides.

I'd love to do some video work, but its just so time consuming!

[RobDickinson]

For time laps you either need a build in intervalometer, a separate one (battery grip or remote) or plug into a laptop with the right software, canons bundled software does it, D200, D90(?), D5000 nikons have one built in.

[Fozzybear]

How do you do time lapse? Any guides.

I'd love to do some video work, but its just so time consuming!

I used the intervalometer on my D300 to take 500 spaced photos, batch resized them down and combined them into a movie in virtualdub before converting for upload using, I think, alltoavi. There may be much easier ways to do it though!

[RobDickinson]

Nother one tonight, filmed mostly on the 7D at 1080/24 and part on ISUX 120IS at 720. 30min to render, 30min to upload, 3min clip :O

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[emeyedeejay]

I used the intervalometer on my D300 to take 500 spaced photos, batch resized them down and combined them into a movie in virtualdub before converting for upload using, I think, alltoavi. There may be much easier ways to do it though!

Very simple, very FREE, very effective jpeg to AVI batch processor: PhotoLapse

http://home.hccnet.nl/s.vd.palen/

Works well!

[GarethH]

I never knew you'd have to use stills for timelapse. I guess the shutter count would be used up pretty fast.

Is there any way to grab even frames from video files?

[emeyedeejay]

Surely to use video in a time lapse all you do is speed up the footage?

[silverpenguin7]

Surely to use video in a time lapse all you do is speed up the footage?
Not really, you can get much nicer looking effects using stills because you can vary the shutter speeds to get nice blur etc in to the shot. You can do it speeding up film but it rarely looks as good IMHO. Plus, try filming a 4 hour shot to speed up and watch that memory go like the clappers lol. Filming over a 4 hour period with stills is much less memory hungry. Depending on the effect you want and the amount of time you want the shot to cover you can take anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand shots over a period of 20 minutes to several hours.

I've just started playing around with timelapse this past week whilst I was away so it's nice to see others have been trying it too.

I'll try and process my first efforts over the next day or so if I get a chance and upload it for viewing pleasure :)

[thescrounger]

Some quite impressive video taken with the 7D here.

<object width="400" height="225"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6759220&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" /><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6759220&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="225"></embed></object><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/6759220">Canon 7D movie - Another night in Beijing</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user331735">Dan Chung</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>