Ofer Rozeman sent me this video of his New stop-motion-road-trip-video which is gone viral on Youtube. He told me:
Last September my wife and I traveled with our friends to Eastern Europe. As designated shooter I’ve tried capturing the 3000km road trip with this stop motion video made of 200GB and 8000 stills.
The idea of a stop-motion travel video came up when I wanted that by the end of my trip I’ll have a high quality video + a stills album, without having to decide what to shoot next while I’m on-scene. I also took into consideration the fact that the [shoplink 34579 ebay]RX1s[/shoplink] video quality wasn’t that good. Eventually I came into conclusion that shooting a stop-motion has lots of advantages: smooth camera movement, 6K resolution, super-accurate AF, All of those with zero budget (except for the RX1 of course).
I chose the [shoplink 34579 ebay]RX1[/shoplink] because of its excellent image quality and compact size – ideal for traveling. It is also very convenient for street photography: the silent shutter and 35mm lens make the objects act natural while being photographed.
Here is the video:
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Video blocked by Sony ATV Publishing. -.-
…but definitely it’s worth clicking the link… great video!
Avengers: Age of Ultron, Star Wars: The Force Awakens and Jurassic World will all be much better.
The RX1 is such a great cam.
If someone Leone could just hack the firmware to give it uncompressed vid…imagine the quality of the footage shot with that lens.
I don’t know how “Leone” got into what I wrote…maybe is the phone speaking it’s mind….
I don’t think you really want uncompressed Video. Imagine having your 30 fps consist of 30 .RAW images per second. The filesize would be a nightmare.
I don’t? I already use bmpcc and I would appreciate having a one stop cam for both vid and stills when travelling with one camera and the sonnar lens is so nice…
Storage is not an issue for those who work with video already. It’s something you accept and manage. For enthusiasts and amateurs… you never know who cares or not about storage.
I shoot ML raw with my 5d3, large file sizes are managed by either converting after making bulk adjustments to the raws or using MLVFS, which makes editing no more of a challenge than h264. Hard drives are cheap, render while you sleep. Its really not a big deal anymore.
I’m absolutely sure that video wouldn’t be any better in an uncompressed format. This stuff is brilliant NOT because of the camera or image quality. Ofer’s creativity is what makes this video worth watching.
I didn’t say anything about the video displayed here. What’s the point you want to make?
I thought “.. the footage …” was referring to Ofer’s video, because that is the footage that is subject of this article.
But anyways, my point is, Ofer’s video reminds me that the content matters, not the IQ or the wonderful tricks you can do in color grading.
Yeah. I get what you say. No, I wasn’t referring to the video here, just to the potential capability of current cameras if we can get rid of the avchd standard constraints just like they did for Panasonic’s cameras.
OK, AVCHD is sh*t, thats right. So, a better, less destructive video codec is urgently needed for the next RX1.
But that means less compression and all intra frames, but not uncompessed. Did you ever soot uncompressed video? I did (CinemaDNG with a Blackmagic). With the current memory card capacities and speeds it is a pain in the *ss. Formats like Apple ProRes are perfiectly fine for almost any needs.
So, no need for uncompressed video in my book.
Yes, I shoot with BMPCC already.
Like I said to (◕‿◕✿) below, there isn’t an issue with me and RAW or memory card speeds. Like with any of the major video cameras, if you have to shoot RAW, you need the speedy cards, so that’s one of those things you can’t compromise on.
That being said, while ProRes HQ is great (I shot with ProRes 422 and Lite and they are not as flexible), RAW will always have the most flexbility, especially if you change your mind after the shoot and want to change the white balance, or you need to do chromatic aberration adjustments (for which Lr/C1/ACR/etc are great) and highlight recovery (at least in BMPCC) is better.
Now…how much better is RAW to ProRes HQ for everyone? I don’t know. I am not them, or you, and I don’t know your needs or wants, so I can’t tell you anything else than what I would need or want, for me and my work, and RAW is best. If they do get something near GH2 Driftwood Moon T5 or T7, that would be already a major change and I would be happy. If they can get a ML hack out of it…that would be an astonishing thing and I would jump on my toes. But that’s me. Everyone’s mileage will vary.
Bravo! Well done.
Well done!
Very cool! 🙂 Congratulations!
Delightful.
Well done mate.
Nice job!
great idea! must have been “some” hours of editing. I really like your cuts between different locations.
Love the “road trip”; I always end up with 30hrs of video and no time to edit, but I guess this took some time planning, co-operation and editing as well
Great clip. Enjoyed watching it.
Must have been hell of a work.
The cuts are very well done.
Must have been a pleasure to load that into an editor, let alone work with that mass of files.
Brilliant like your NYC video before!
Wow! Great short.
Try send it to Capalbio Shortfilm festival. http://www.capalbiocinema.com/home.htm
Excellent, great work, very creative. Did you shoot RAW as well? it appears you did based on the dynamic range you pulled out of some of those scenes!!
I liked his NYC piece better, the pacing on this one is a little slow, but this is a cool way of making a video. I did the same thing for a TV spot a couple years back with an A99 for the unmatched IQ, only 30 seconds so not nearly the same number of raws. Took a lot of planning and every scene was shot 4 or 5 times to get the right movements. The amount of work Rozenman put into this is amazing, kudos my friend.
Love it! What kind of preparation did you do for this piece? Any tips for creating something like this?
Held off watching it as I thought it might be another pretentious clip but have to say that was very well thought out and put together. A pleasure to watch not too long just the right length thanks for the share 🙂
Fantastic!