I'll remember that :)

It's already wrong ! :D ;P

Very very nice stuff by the way.

I think, I know what you mean. Storytelling is different when it comes to video. I try not to stick to conventions, though. However, I'm very new to video - only had one for two months now :) I enjoy learning and if you have anything to tell me (in order for me to become better at this) please tell me :)

Second the screensaver idea!

If you have Vista Ultimate (as I do) you could just download it and use it as is... (DreamScene) :) Don't know much about making screensavers, but I guess it could look OK...

It's in the text at the end :)

Tycho "Cloud generator"
tychomusic.com

Hi Ryan,

I'm on vacation in Vancouver / Vancouver Island and the internet speeds are nothing to cheer about, so here's a late responds.

It's actually quite simple. I shoot in TV mode at the speeds that match the available light. I used a polarizing filter and just boosted the contrast in sony vegas.

If you don't already know, speeding up a video in vegas is done by grapping the end of a clip, holding down the ctrl button and moving your cursor left (compressing the video). The platinum version will only compress a video 4 times (changing the clips lenght to 25%). The pro version don't have this restriction. When I want more than 4x compression, I render the movie and import it again to be able to compress again...

Let me know if that answered your question.

Thanks! Yeah you pretty much answered my question. But like how long did you record? Like the raw footage? What exactly do you mean when you say" at the speeds that match the available light"? I was just curious. Thanks again!

-RyanOfRJNN.

I recorded for up to 3 minutes at a time, roughly...

With 8x compression, 2 minutes of raw footage comes to just 15 seconds of final footage. Obviously, if you zoom in, the clouds will move faster and you don't have to speed up the footage as much.

In TV mode, if you set it to a shutter speed of 25 (if your's is an NTSC it will be 29 or 30, I think) and point the camera at the sky, the number will probably start to flash. This means that you are getting an overexposed image. Changing TV mode to a higher shutter speed like 250, 500 or higher (NTSC versions will have different numbers) should stop the flashing and you will be good to go.

However, you might also just keep a low shutter speed and change the exposure setting (by pressing the SET button and choosing EXP and then lowering the exposure) - that will also stop the TV mode number (shutter speed) from flashing / over-exposing.

It's all a bit technical, but I hope it makes sense anyway :)

Let me know if you have further questions...

As far as I know Vimeo uses 25fps for this website - if you download the video, you'll see just how much Vimeo compress / alter my VMW files when they put them into a flash player. The downloaded / original files is much better.