Make: Live 6/22/11 — Photo and Video (video)

Make: Live episode 11 is all about photography and video. We take you on a behind-the-scenes tour and show how we put together Make: Live.

Matt Griffin from MakerBot shows us how they make timelapse movies of 3D printers doing their thing Catch up on video and notes from the show here.

Subscribe to the MAKE Podcast in iTunes, download Make: Live episode 11 in its entirety (m4v or Vimeo). Also check out the chat room transcript!

Show notes:

Some time lapse tips and tricks from Matt Griffin:
  • You need something that is fixed or moves slowly to "gel" the time lapse
  • Be careful of auto-exposure and auto-focus, as these kill illusion.
  • Sell realism by simulating camera moves -- s-curves and ease in/ease out help give the viewer a cinematic handling feel while direct lines feel kinda mechanical (security cameras)
  • Typically folks add music after the time lapse -- but if you pick music you like, you can make adjustments to the time lapse to connect it to (or work against) the music.
  • Shoot a big enough image to give you room for reframing -- but make sure the resolution for a tighter shot looks good enough for your needs.
  • Many time lapse/stop motion/intervalometer type tools can be hacked to be queued by something other than time. If you are recording something that changes over time, you can create a tool to trigger the shots that are interesting (motion sensing, tracking, sound sensing etc.)
  • Once you are done shooting, it is like you have a strip of film. You can use any number of batch file renaming or image processing tools to change parts or all of your sequence well before encoding it as video.
  • ou can "thin" out your time lapse to have only images doing what you want, and then use a batch file renaming tool to create a new consecutively numbered sequence of images.
Want to show us your project? Upload a video or photos and send a link to live@makezine.com.

Next show:
Make: Live 12: Robots
Wednesday July 13th, 9pm ET/6pm PT
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daily-ish photo: bacon maple bar from Frost

We found ourselves out near Frost Donuts [1] (a short drive away from Seattle) so we stopped in. I'd read a lot about it but I wasn't prepared for how amazing the donuts look [2] (take a peek at that Aztec Chocolate, go on), how adorably designed the shop was, and how really, really good the donuts were. I didn't mean to eat this whole one but I did. We are definitely going to find a reason to swing by again soon. [1] http://www.frostology.com/ [2] http://www.frostology.com/menu.aspx

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May Birthday Giveaway: ABC poster from Matthew Porter

What's going on here? My site started ten years ago this month and to celebrate I?m giving away something each weekday. Because I like you. Yay! Today I have the ABC Poster [1] from Matthew Porter [2] to give away. Matthew Porter is a Seattle illustrator and childrens book author whose distinctive style has become familiar to our household, we've bought several of his books for our niece and nephews. His wife, Andrea, is the administrative side of the business (and since I work with her in the GBA [3] I can tell you she is a force). They owned the Bluebottle art gallery here in Seattle for eight years. In addition to his books [4] he sells original art [5] and onsies, hoodies and posters in the shop [6]. His most familiar character is a monkey and his book Monkey World [7] is a lot of fun, I have to admit we read through a few times before mailing it off to our niece and nephew. I absolutely love that Matthew offers his top 10 childrens books for inspiration (bottom half of the page), there are a few books there I just barely remember. If you'd like to win the ABC poster please leave a comment with this entry. You have until 10 a.m. on Wednesday, May 18th to enter, the fine print [8] applies. If you'd like something to mention here is a question to answer: Did you have a book as a kid that you remember to this day? Mine was Dr. Seuss's The First of Octember, because my birthday falls early in October and I was fascinated by the idea that there might be a month in there somewhere I hadn't been told about! Alright, good luck. Closed, thanks for entering! [1] http://www.etsy.com/listing/70088010/24-x-36-abc-poster [2] http://www.matthewporterart.com [3] http://grassrootsbusinessassoc.com/ [4] http://matthewporterartwork.blogspot.com/p/my-childrens-books.html [5] http://matthewporterartwork.blogspot.com/p/originals.html [6] http://matthewporterartwork.blogspot.com/p/shop.html [7] http://www.etsy.com/listing/56046198/monkey-world-a-to-z-of-occupations-by?re... [8] http://www.notmartha.org/the-fine-print/

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