Failed Experiment
Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 8:33PM When it snowed on Sunday night, I decided to test out my new Flip Mino HD. I stuck it in the cell pouch on my backpack while I walked from my apartment on Capitol HIll down to South Lake Union, to meet my girlfriend. The plan was to speed up the video and make a time lapse. Turns out I'm not a very graceful walker, so it's way too jerky to speed up. I've put together the "highlights," if you can call them that, below (in normal speed so as to not induce any seizures). It's not at all what I was expecting to get, but a couple of times cars' headlights made some cool effects that I'd probably never be able to make on purpose (@ :32 & 1:41).
I might try this again when it's not so snowy to see if I walk any smoother on solid ground, but if that doesn't work I'm going all the way...
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This reminds me of a design for a cheap steadicam I heard about a while ago. (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~johnny/steadycam/) I wonder if this would help you? I'm not a videographer, but I would be stoked if the cheapo solution was actually useful... steadicam work is so fascinating to me, from The Shining to Russian Ark.
hhmmm... I might have to try that. If it works it would definitely be worth the money and effort.
I liked the video. Very simple but it felt like I was there walking. I just bought the Kodak Zi6 and plan on shooting similar videos. I don't leave the house without it, just in case.
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