BikeCam, the other way

August 22, 2007 · 5 comments

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This BikeCam slideshow is the other way, both in direction and technique. I stuck the camera on the handlebars for the ride home, and used QuickTime Pro’s “Open Image Sequence…” feature to build a movie at 2fps automagically. That took maybe 5 minutes, including the resized export of all images from Aperture. That was muuuuch easier/quicker than the way I built the last one (using iMovie – that was pretty easy, but this was just pointing QuickTime at a directory and exporting the result). Easy peasy.

[flv:http://www.darcynorman.net/video/BikeCamCommuteHome2_480_360.flv 480 360]

Update: made a new version of the video, with a soundtrack. Rise and Fall, by Sylvie (couldn’t find a link!)

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1 Chris Craft August 22, 2007 at 5:06 pm

But no music. Shame. That was half the fun!

Glad you didn’t thrash your camera on the way. Thanks for the good fun!

Chris

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2 dnorman August 22, 2007 at 5:17 pm

Yeah. I’ll take it into GarageBand or iMovie to add a soundtrack – just wanted to see how quickly I could convert it to video in some (very short) downtime before supper. I’ll work up a better version after The Boyâ„¢ goes to bed…

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3 David Esrati August 22, 2007 at 5:44 pm

D’Arcy,
Iphoto will do this for you as well- just make slideshow- you can even add the “Ken Burns effect”-
really easy. Music too.

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4 dnorman August 22, 2007 at 5:48 pm

iPhoto? What’s that? ;-) I haven’t touched iPhoto since December 2006…

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5 David Esrati August 22, 2007 at 7:47 pm

arrogant aperture users- I swear….
just do it the hardway D’Arcy.

And- btw- how are you triggering the camera? Is it doing a standard interval- or are you clicking it yourself?

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