So it’s midnight at the wilcox house and I’ve been brainstorming some concepts to experiment with for some upcoming video projects I’ve got coming down the pipe. The season is upon me and our entire creative department once again to work on several videos in a very short time which will amount to lots of enegy drinks, several super long days and nights and a very patient (and might I mention amazing) wife! Dee, I love you! You’re amazing and I’m so grateful for you! Thanks for understanding the busy times!
Ok, so tonight I’m experimenting with a concept called “Light Painting”. It’s probably a fairly common concept to most photographers and videographers, but to me, it’s fairly new and exciting. I played around with it a little tonight and am going to experient further with it tomorrow for a few videos I’ve got coming up. I posted a pic of it below. Anyway, it’s not terribly creative, but I thought I’d welcome any creative feedback and maybe some ideas if you lovely people have them on how I can use this concept, especially using a video camera.
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Chris
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Lightpainting is a cool concept. Most videos are done using stop motion from still cameras. Video cameras really don’t have the ability to use a long enough shutter speed to capture the effect.
You can “cheat” and use after effects or any other compositing program. That’s how I did the writing effect at the beginning of my last video, except that I left off all the randomizing layers that give you that shaking effect of the stop motion.
Either way, it’s fairly time consuming. If you go the stop motion route, expect to take thousands of frames, and if you do the compositing route, expect hours of rendering time. My video took about an hour of render time for 15 seconds of video and that’s using about 8 layers. If you add the other layers, expect that time to double or even triple.
There’s a tutorial for after effects on youtube and creativecow.com.
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