Thank you! The mountain shot in the beginning was from Grandfather Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Boone, NC.

Thank you Spike, this took a little over a month of frequent shooting.

Thank you Mick!

There is a great discussion forum I recently joined that has a ton of great info:

timescapes.org

Also check out Milapse's youtube page he has a lot of great tutorials:

youtube.com/milapse

Thanks iamdamion!
This was all shot with a Nikon D200.

That's a shame about the FS Drive. I am thinking of saving up for a HD camera in the future and would really want to get one of these type drives to go with it. It seems like there has to be a way to get it to interval record in hd?

I read that focus enhancements just came out with an FS-5 model...I'm wondering if it will do time lapse in HD. I should do some research! heh

I have one other stupid question for ya...What program did you use for this? I mean, obviously you can throw all the stills into fcp, but after a while...the program just crawls with thousands of one frame clips. I've always wondered what program people were using, cause I know there's a tons of them out there, I'm just not too familiar with which ones are good.

For this I mainly used Quicktime pro to assemble all the frames into video clips and then took the clips into Final Cut Pro for editing. I've tried throwing all the frames into both Final Cut and Premiere it seems to me this just takes more time and requires more processing. Quicktime does it pretty fast.

hmm. i feel kinda silly i never thought about using quicktime for anything other then conversion. :/ I'll check out the image sequence option. thanks!!

Thanks Benjamin,

Man, I just saw what you were talking about on your page, that was really cool. I'm a huge fan of light paintings. I always thought those Sprint commercials were all done in post but I've read where they are actually done with real lights. Your stuff looks really similar. Were you using stencils by any chance to create the music notes?

My understanding is that the agency that did the Sprint light painting ad got their inspiration from the japanese crew PIKAPIKA (http://tochka.jp/pikapika/). Since they are so very similar in style many assume that the PIKAPIKA people were involved in the production somehow but supposedly they were only contacted for instructions and then they went along and did it themselves.

The music notes were hand drawn by the talented drummer, Björn, from the band we did the video for. I wouldn't be able to draw those on paper and he did them mirrored, time after time without any reference, in the air. He actually did most of the more detailed drawings (letters, words...) in the music video that I will hopefully be able to post in a few days

I've uploaded the final music video on Vimeo now: vimeo.com/1007693

Thanks Tom,

Basically the dolly is the standard skate shoe wheel on pvc pipe with a motorized housing on the back that pushes it (with wheels on the tracks) very slowly down the tracks.

It covers about 15ft of track in about 45 minutes by using a 1rpm motor geared down to make 1 revolution every 3 minutes.

Thanks for the feedback Pierre! I actually feel the same way about the ending now. At first I liked it and got second opinions on it that felt the same way, but after watching it for a few times I really want to go back and change it. I had to get the project done by a certain time but I think I'll go back and rework it soon.

Thank you Monso!