Fast-Forward editing...actually kinda sick

I'm ruined on all tilt-shift videos after this one (not skiing related). Everything else just doesn't add up.

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PS - I see you farmskier!

 
Ah didnt read the description in the video.. looks identical to what a tilt shift lens produces though. Thats pretty interesting, seems like that would have taken a long time in post. cool
 
or they could have cut out the first 3 mins of the video and made a same length edit with normal motion skiing.
 
Well then, check these ones out, if you haven't seen 'em already.

The Sandpit from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.

Coachelletta from Sam O'Hare on Vimeo.
 
you cant "mass edit" the toy effect, its a dynamic blur and unusual plane of focus of a tilt shift that makes the effect, since this was shot on a dslr with a regular lense, they just used a small aperture to get a deep depth of field and dragged an elliptical blur over the subject, with the poles of the ellipse being in a different spot for each shot.
 
not gonna lie, this song make me
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well good sir i beg to disagree, i dont know what you mean by elliptical blur or how aperture is even relevant or what the fuck a "dynamic" blur is, i do know however that since these are stop motion movies (at least the sandpit is) is that they are a series of still images played at a fast rate in order. each image has been edited in photoshop or whatever to have a fake blur that immatates what you would get with a tilt shift lens and gives the allusion of depth of field thus making the shot look "toy like". i also know that if you create a cynidrical gradient mask in ps and add a blur filter that creates this effect. i also know you can mass edit images in photoshop to all have the exact same alterations made to each photograph (ive done this numerous times so please don't tell me it cant be done) from there you throw them all into a movie editing software and boom, miniature big world movie. at least that's how i would do it.

also its spelled lens not "lense"

also im not quite sure how me changes "focus"' in the sandpit in one shot, that he could have done frame by frame
 
I think the Sandpit video was shot with an actual TS lens, so you would be able to change the field of focus in camera.

You could definitely batch process each image individually for the time-lapse shots, but it would be a lot more efficient to do it in After Effects once you've create a movie (on second thought, you could probably move your focus the same way). You could also use it for videos like the OP.

 
Actually it wasn't! It was done with a plug-in for after effects! So i was a little off, but i've been trying my own TS movies through photoshop. ive seen TS effects done in final cut pro, but i've always been a little scared to try as i'm far more comfortable with ps, sounds like i should give it a try though. Here is a full interview with the creator of the Sandpit on how he did it if anyone else is curious. http://aerofilm.blogspot.com/2010/02/sandpit-short-film-by-aero-director-sam.html

 
perhaps it was actually stop motion, but it's quite easy to record a time lapse video (or make a video out of stills), then export that video at a slower frame rate (say 12 or 15fps) to give a stop motion effect. then the tilt shift effect would only have to be added to the video, instead of frame by frame.

 
im not sure what that kids on.. but anyone adding the TS effect frame by frame is smoking crack. its so easy to make actual stop motion, drag all the shots into FCP or AE, and then lay your TS filter onto the video.

you honestly have to be insane to try and batch process all of your photos with a TS effect... especially if you plan on moving the point of focus.
 
to be fair, you would probably be surprised by how many people don't realize how simple it is to make a stop motion-esque clip out of regular video (or a series of stills turned into a video). i've had multiple kids ask me how i achieved the stop motion effect in a ts edit i made (with a real ts lens, not gimmicky shit), and when i tell them to simply export at a low frame rate, they are kind of embarrassed by how obvious it is. i actually couldn't figure it out either when i first started playing with ts a couple years ago. it's so obvious that a lot of people don't even realize it.

but i agree, trying to do that frame by frame would be a complete nightmare.
 
exporting to different framerates is the name of the game for me.. i do a retarded amount of FR converting for my shit.. (i shoot mostly all 720/60 and anything that gets played back at real speed gets converted into 24) if i speed up a shot to above real speed, ill drop a few frames and it adds an even more 'speedy' effect to the shot.
 
looks like somebody is dumb. i would just add the TS effect from magic bullet looks to the whole clip or use a REAL TS lens.
 
this thread is going in circles, yes i was mistaken they were edited in after effects (at least the sandpit) using a plugin. but i already said this earlier in the thread. . .

in general it seems there are a plethora of ways to get a very similar effect
 
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