Blog #5 Time-Lapse and Hyper-Lapse.
- Oliver Aspinall
- Dec 10, 2019
- 3 min read
TimeLapse.
Time-lapse, is a fast-forwarded video that has many photos taken over time, on one spot, first set the camera in the middle of a busy high street, and it takes pictures every 30 seconds. After taking photos for an hour, you put the “1000” photos into premiere pro and adobe software. And fast forward the video into probably a 10-second clip. Just a simple way of capturing a video, over time, you would require a lot of patience.
I have done a few time-lapse in my time, mainly in Uganda, observing the clouds and the city of Kampala. During my time there i experimenting which “times” I should set and what are the focus points too. For example, my focus point was the city of Kampala, with the sunset and the lights; it was a success. Also, I was in a guest house in Buikwe in Uganda, I was committed to doing a sunrise and sunset time-lapse, the mosquitos were out on the evening which creates a little bit of danger of malaria, which was fun but at least those time-lapse became a significant part of the “UG19” trailer and main video which you will find a link for it below.
I currently have many plans for doing time-lapses even I would like to do it in a car. Also looking to do the view of Glasgow which is where I’m currently studying because I would be quite intrigued what kind of result I will get because of the way the weather works is all over the place and fascinating!
Hyperlapse.
Hyper-lapse, is a technique that I recognised a few years ago now, its like time-lapse but the camera is on the move, all the time, to give a cool “Hyper” video. I knew time-lapse was a thing for a long time as it was part of my animation course or even part of my research. But hyper-lapse, however, is a new technique that made in 1995 by Guy Rowland. You will see link below of the first hyper-lapse!
The first time I tried to do Hyper-lapse was last year in the winter on a lovely cold day, in my local village, because it had a beautiful looking church, and it has a perfect focal point to concentrated. After I have done that, I then learned how to make the video look very smooth and very exciting, by using Premiere Pro with “Warp Stabilizer” and the finished piece is beautiful so smooth and satisfying. You will see the video below.
Then I decided to try to do it based on a world-famous building the Sydney opera house, while I was in Australia. “Wow” what a beautiful building, I kept coming back nearly every day to the opera house, because it was breathtaking. Once again best part about the opera house that it had lots of perfect focus points.
At this point, I realised that I had to do an hyper-lapse as part of my projects because it’s the most satisfying video you will continue to watch. I’m planning to keep many many more videos, being able to show different places on a simple short video, its so eye-catching as well. Even using simple focus points like here in Glasgow I have the University of Glasgow building has a perfect main point or even the statues which I particularly love the sculptures with a Road Cone on its head.
After doing some work on the hyper-lapse, there were some mishaps that I found out on the way. I found out that the hyper-lapse is recommended more than thirty to fifty more images, plus next time it is preferable to use a monopod, as its more best/stable technique to use, if I want to continue this technique within my projects. Also, the sound effects are needed within the video to make things more interesting.
While I was doing the research, I found a much better way to stabilise the video even better by using a different software known as after effects, from now on I will be using this if I want to stabilise the footage.
God Bless
Oliver
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