Imagine Picts

Tutorial on how to take your stills taken with your DSLR and turn them into great timelapse HD video.

In this tutorial I explain how to use my free After Effects script MochaImport which simplifies the usage of MochaAE with After Effects.

With the script the following tasks can be done as one click operations:
- create corner pin
- create CC power pin
- create AE trackpoints from Mocha track
- stabilize footage
- move layers according to track
- create a precomp in which the footage is stabilized while maintaining the movement in the original composition.

FREE DOWNLOAD of the script: aextensions.blogspot.com

This video was shot using the Canon 5D Mark II on a modular shoulder mount rig (Zacuto rods, RedRock shoulder mount, RedRock grips, Hyson Films 4-stage X-Matte mattebox, JBKCine extended Follow Focus, TV Logic LVM-071W 7" monitor, external V-mount battery mounted behind camera, Giottos quick-release). The only lighting used was what was available in the nightclub. No controllable or camera-mounted lights were used. The prime focus (no pun intended) was to see how well the camera would record this low-light scenario before using the rig in a real production environment. I feel it did very well, despite the amount of noise that was introduced from the high ISO setting.

To give the video a slightly over-cranked (slow-motion) feel, all the raw footage was conformed from 30p to 24p.

Out of the large collection of lenses we have, only two were used; the Canon 35mm f/1.4L and the Canon 135mm f/2L. These are noted in the bottom-right area of the video on a clip-per-clip basis.

No color-timing and/or color-grading was used on any of these shots; they are all uncorrected in their raw state.

Edited in Final Cut Studio 2 in a couple of hours.

Music credit: Tri-State by Above & Beyond

Please make your voice heard and let Canon know you want manual control on your 5D Mk II:
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All footage ©2009, Marco Solorio of OneRiver Media

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If you have not yet seen the first tracker2mask tutorial, I suggest to do that first: vimeo.com/2393127

In this tutorial I describe some new features of my After Effects script Tracker2Mask that allow local modifications of masks. As an example, I show how to animate speech bubbles.

You can DOWNLOAD tracker2mask for free at aextensions.blogspot.com/2009/02/tracker2mask.html