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              Can Anyone Figure Out How This Timelapse Was Filmed?

              The guys at T-Recs (short for timelapse recordings) created a timelapse video that is unlike anything I have seen before. We have all seen timelapse videos that have camera movement but nothing like this. Some how these guys are making really big moves, almost like they are shooting out of an airplane. Anyone know how this sort of thing is done?



              July 29, 2011
              Lee Morris
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              • Jeremy Wong

                Robot works?

              • http://www.facebook.com/chitran247 Chithanh Tran

                yeah, its definitely not your mall kiosk mini helis.  I use to fly Rc helis…the $2000 versions..I’ve never tried to lift a dslr but I’m sure it could with a lot of effort.  You still have the problem of wind and stability.  Even the most expensive gyros to keep the heli headed in the right direction is no match for radio interference and the slightest wind gusts.  The faster it flies, the more chance of keeping things stable, if you’re flying slow, forget it.

              • http://www.facebook.com/chitran247 Chithanh Tran

                yeah, its definitely not your mall kiosk mini helis.  I use to fly Rc helis…the $2000 versions..I’ve never tried to lift a dslr but I’m sure it could with a lot of effort.  You still have the problem of wind and stability.  Even the most expensive gyros to keep the heli headed in the right direction is no match for radio interference and the slightest wind gusts.  The faster it flies, the more chance of keeping things stable, if you’re flying slow, forget it.

              • Mike M

                Why don’t we just ask them? lol.

              • etrommer86

                Hey, thats my hometown (Dresden, Germany) in that video!

                I’ve checked out their website and it seems like they usually work with a Kessler Slider and a small handheld gimbal stabilizer, about the size of a GlideCam 2000.

                So my guess would be: handheld stabilizer out of a car (or skateboard, or whatever), added post stabilization, voilá…

              • Cippo Faccia Da

                The first part I think it’s easier than how it looks. This are 3 or more “ordinary” cloud’s timelapse overlayed and moved in and out the frame with a video editing software. Anyone agree?

              • http://www.facebook.com/people/Gio-Sy/1794085682 Gio Sy

                anybody know what song they used for this?

              • http://www.facebook.com/Zupo.Photography Chris Zupo

                My bet would be something like a crane with the camera mounted to the end of it, panning with something like a fluid head and a gyro stabilized system. Electronic gyro stabilization would account for steady shots. Cropping would still cause the images them selves, like buildings, to be jittery.

              • http://www.facebook.com/prithvi.poosapati Prithvi Poosapati

                Looks like they used some trolley sort of thing to achieve the stability !!

              • Nathan Mills

                i would say your run of the mill cherry picker – not expensive to rent either  - as you can see a bit of movement in the timelapse 

              • http://twitter.com/bitchforks RichardMaciver

                yeah but to hover and get time lapses like that you’d need the rc to move extremely slow. not possible.

              • Sebastian Krisai

                theyr facebook album tells you the truth ;)

                http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=pu.184717594888971&type=1

              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W762EN32VYQNXEZI3J3IVM6VCU PsyPhy

                my jaw was helplessly dropping from scene to scene…

              • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_W762EN32VYQNXEZI3J3IVM6VCU PsyPhy

                my jaw was helplessly dropping from scene to scene…

              • http://www.facebook.com/stephanvereno Stephan Vereno

                You can find their BTS Movie here: http://www.t-recs.org/behind-the-scene/

              • http://twitter.com/dewberry_john John Dewberry

                Stephan beat me to it. Check out their website for behind the scenes info at http://www.t-recs.org.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1104650770 Adi Floyde

                http://www.t-recs.org/behind-the-scene/

              • http://www.facebook.com/buwaneka.saranga Buwaneka Saranga

                They must’ve used Adobe After Effects’ new Warp Stabilizer on regular hand held shots.

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=39601062 Ted Vitale

                I have to disagree with you about the R/C Helicopter, Ive worked with them in the past on jobs, they are not nearly stable enough to get shots like these. They wouldn’t be practical for shooting a time lapse. Figure about 8-10 minutes with a 5D hung from a quadrocoptor, not long enough to do this. 

                You can, with very high end equipment, set up cable dollies with a stabilizer and a programable pulley of some sort to get time-lapse videos like this accomplished. Personally thats the only practical way I see to get shots like these over the heights and distances that TRECS is shooting. 

                Heres a home spun version of what I think they used:

                http://cabledollyproject.tumblr.com/

                And a much larger professional version:

                http://www.tshed.co.uk/1/page.php?17

              • Brendan O’Shea

                Buwaneka Saranga nailed it. Point a wide angle lens in the general direction of a building, start an intervalometer and go for a little stroll with a hand held camera. Put all the shots as a sequence into After Effects, select a point on the building to stabilise and hit the go button. Dead giveaway is that in every shot there is a single point that remains glued to its spot in the frame.

              • http://www.facebook.com/redteo Matteo Consolati

                hi this russian guy shoots time laps like this from a long time:
                https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KP-Oha-F2ts

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609207442 facebook-609207442

                I love the theories.  I bet none of you can guess how I did this.  http://youtu.be/wRtGKhwHVR0

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609207442 facebook-609207442

                And try to figure this one out!!  LOL.  http://youtu.be/3wSjwHGWSyk

              • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=609207442 facebook-609207442

                Oh and here’s a few more to make you all wonder.  Ok, I’ll give it up.  All shot by hand and hand-steadied in post using keyframes, no automatic B.S. image stabilization whatsoever.  Suckazzzzz!!   You’re all creating these monster automatic rigs and I’m doing it with my BARE hands.  http://youtu.be/sM5bYgHKAkw  (sorry no HD on this one… made it years ago before my computer was fasssssst enough)

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