This is a one-minute time lapse shot with my Canon 5D and 100mm f2.8 Macro. The film was edited in Adobe Lightroom and Apple FCP.

Watch the QUICKTIME VERSION and be amazed (or disgusted?)
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How I made this video...

I used a Canon 5D (but any still-camera will do) and shot three frames a second for one minute, until it was disolved (the vitamin, not the camera).

I factored 24 frames per second for the final movie, because I like the 24FPS look. Since I shot three frames a second for one minute... 180 frames... and used 24 frames for each second when edited... this finally equals seven seconds of film.

I batch edited the 180 individual photos in Adobe Lightroom and exported them at 720x540 pixels, the dimensions of the final film.

Then I inported all of these into Final Cut. When you import stills you can choose the duration of each one... the trick is to import them with a set duration of .04 seconds, which is 1/24 of a second... so as to arrive at a 24FPS clip.

This was then exported as a Animation JPEG for ultra amazing quality (and a whopping file size!)

In all, it took three minutes to set up and shoot, one minute to upload, ten minutes to batch process in Lightroom, and fifteen to edit in Final Cut. Three to export.

About a half-hour total.

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  • cellocellocello 3 years ago
    Really cool man. Plus there's the whole stomach acid thing which helps too.
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    yeah - makes me wonder what actual food looks like inside my body!
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  • theopenlife 3 years ago
    For real, that stomach acid must eat it up... oh, wait... it really DOES eat it up.
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  • feltron 3 years ago
    i LOVE this
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  • zzz1492 3 years ago
    This looks fascinating, but it doesn't make me think "Oh, what a healthy vitamin!"
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  • doriansky 3 years ago
    beautiful
    soothing
    the colors are sensual as well
    excellent digital time art
  • theopenlife 3 years ago
    Thanks so much! *Laughs, akwardness* I was suprised the inside was purple.
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  • Perez 3 years ago
    awesome!
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  • mmmihaitza 3 years ago
    amazing...
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  • Alex Itin plus 3 years ago
    pharmalicious
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  • Alex Itin plus 3 years ago
    hey is this looping?
  • Jake Lodwick plus 3 years ago
    haha, yeah, wtf?
  • theopenlife 3 years ago
    For real, I don't get the loop thing either.
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  • SaraLily 3 years ago
    why i will never ever ever swallow a pill that big. the insides look so gross!
  • christy gordon 3 years ago
    agreed
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  • lindsey! 3 years ago
    whoa.
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  • Julia Quinn staff 3 years ago
    bizarre
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  • Jimi Heffernan 3 years ago
    i'm going to go ahead and request something more applicable to my life:

    Flinstone's Vitamin please?
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  • ew.
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  • Pencil Rebel 3 years ago
    great idea, great performance !
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  • theopenlife 3 years ago
    You're all so friendly. On YouTube it was more like, "expletive, expletive, Gross, why'd you do this? Expletive!"
  • Adam Holwerda 3 years ago
    We don't talk about YouTube here.
  • theopenlife 2 years ago
    You-what?
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  • Bill plus 2 years ago
    Nice one....and thanks for the breakdown of how you did it...very useful.
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  • theopenlife 2 years ago
    No prob.
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  • Simone Morgan 7 months ago
    interesting but ugh gross why did I watch that?!
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  • Trevor Sion 3 months ago
    grooooooossssssssss
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