London Time Lapse

[Pyrofer]

Ok, Been working on my timelapse video. Excuse the quality please. I am still trying to get the hang of iMovie.
I know I need better editing software!

Comments/suggestions and tips please!

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRKbck1yBT0[/YOUTUBE]

direct link if the youtube isn't embedding http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRKbck1yBT0

 

[RaglanSurf]

Some nice work there Jason, am I right that it's silent? The addition of music is going to add to the mood considerably. You've chosen quite a short time between shots which gives the footage a very smooth flowing look, it works particularly well on the car shots. Although as a tool for TV or construction time-lapse I think you would need to change your shooting ratio a lot.

Check out Lobster Pictures to see what I mean. http://www.lobsterpictures.tv

You might want to have a look at FCP for your editing software, it offers lots more than you're likely to need at the moment but it's a very powerful tool.

 

[Pyrofer]

Thanks for the comments.
I have considerably longer shots, each one is around a minute total and clipped the bits out that I liked for this edit.

I think with music, longer shots and longer fades it would be nice but this was a quick edit to get it all in there.

It's silent right now, I will find some music for it later.

I was thinking of breaking the shots up and going back and forth between them, like I did with the cars, did that work? I was worried it looked like the same shot twice but it was just two halves of the same clip.

Should I try and keep it chronologically ordered?
The car shot was last/latest so I didn't like having the darkest shots first.

The plan is to keep building up a lot of footage around London and keep adding till I have around 3 and a half minutes of good shots. I don't want people to get bored of each shot so thought around 15 to 20 seconds was good.
I have a nice sunset over the river that is at least 40 seconds long.

How is the lighting colour? The shots don't all match up exactly due to different shooting conditions and I was wondering if that detracted from the overall feel too much.