Rush Valley Timelapse

[Ben Egbert]

This is 4 video snipits collected into a collage. These are all Raw images shot at 3 second intervals with the Canon R5. I had various settings but was using auto ISO which I think is causing the flikering. It also started overexposing when it got to ISO 100 and could not go lower, so I manually changed exposure. The moon was taken with at 560 mm using high speed burst mode for a total of 53 images. I did not originally intend these to be TL but they sort of work.

I assembled these in Moviva after making indivdual TLs. I used .1 second intervals and default quality. I had been using the highest quality and much larger size, but they are slow and end up with artifacts. After I started using the standard quality, things got better.

I need to find a way to download music as there are only two songs that I will use in Movivia.


rush valley collage - YouTube

 

[AlanLichty]

Interesting results. I am curious as to why use auto-ISO for a sunrise? It would seem more realistic if the darkness of early morning transitioned into morning sunlight rather than an almost consistent brightness.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I use auto ISO to avoid black images. I don't care for very dark images even if that is the way my eyes see it. Using the cameras additional light gathering ability is what attracts me to night images. We did have a very bright moon when I started this and even so, it started at ISO12800.

I ended up dumping the fires couple hundred frames. This needs to be a remote deal, start it and do something else with another camera or get in your vehicle with the heater full blast. But I am going to look for another way to get exposures automatically adjusted besides auto ISO.

 

[JimFox]

Hey Ben, before I forget. I suggest adjusting the volume of your music down to 50% when you are creating the video. That's under Audio Tools. I do that on all of mine, as 100% volume seems way too loud and hurts my ears. Right now when I play your video's I have to go and turn down the volume as it is blasting too loud.

 

[JimFox]

I use auto ISO to avoid black images. I don't care for very dark images even if that is the way my eyes see it. Using the cameras additional light gathering ability is what attracts me to night images. We did have a very bright moon when I started this and even so, it started at ISO12800.

I ended up dumping the fires couple hundred frames. This needs to be a remote deal, start it and do something else with another camera or get in your vehicle with the heater full blast. But I am going to look for another way to get exposures automatically adjusted besides auto ISO.

Are you shooting Aperture Priority or Shutter Priority? I think for video the camera goes into a Shutter priority mode? I am still trying to figure this out too.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I have tried them all. I used aperture priority for this one. It sets exposure where I tell it to and maintains it constantly by adjusting ISO and shutter speed. Of course 3 seconds would be the max so it makes a high iso to start with. As Alan points out, a constant brightness is not right either. Something I need to figure out.

 

[JimFox]

I just finished watching yours Ben. I wonder what is causing that flickering for you? Otherwise I liked the time lapses, and that moon one was cool.

Another suggestion is to use a more subtle transition. I prefer a Blur or Zoom transition as it's not so visually jarring like your twist transition you are doing.

So that's interesting about the sharing, I thought maybe it would just share on Youtube, I didn't realize you had to pick a social media platform. But I noticed when I clicked on your Share button on your video, it also had a Copy or Share Link option. You could use that too.

 

[JimFox]

I have tried them all. I used aperture priority for this one. It sets exposure where I tell it to and maintains it constantly by adjusting ISO and shutter speed. Of course 3 seconds would be the max so it makes a high iso to start with. As Alan points out, a constant brightness is not right either. Something I need to figure out.

I don't think I want to go pitch dark though, I prefer keeping it visually viewable as you are doing. Though I could see it being a little darker and then transitioning to normal brightness as the sun rises. But I wouldn't want to go more then a stop or so of light I think.... But that effect is something we will have to learn as we go on what works best.

 

[Ben Egbert]

I think the flickering is caused by auto ISO. As it adjusts it may overadjust. Anyway I never considered it until Mike mentioned it. In some cases I might have had my headlamp on, as you know, I can't find anything on the camera in the dark, Also there were some cars coming by as you can see in one of the snippits.

I will play with shares. At the moment, I have my 5DSR doing a timelapse so I need to go check it. I hate the user interface. To start a TL, you enable it, then adjust the settings. If you do anything else or goes to sleep it will be disabled and you need to start over. Then you push the shutter and get a message to take a test image, then press the video button and then depress the shutter again. Then you are left wondering if it started. But you can get on a step stool and look at the top display and see it counting down (5DSR), The R5 shows all this on the lcd and even displays each image as it takes them.