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Offline GregJ

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Got Aurora Borealis On Time Lapse Last Night...
« on: June 01, 2013, 12:42:53 PM »
I have a panorama still image and 3 time lapses.  It is due north in between each cam.

Here they are:

Panorama time lapse:

Cam 1 time lapse:

Cam 2 time lapse (most of the activity was on this cam):

Still image panorama:


Thought I'd share,

Greg


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Re: Got Aurora Borealis On Time Lapse Last Night...
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2013, 12:46:53 PM »
Very nice - I've only seen a decent display once, but it left a lasting impression.
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Re: Got Aurora Borealis On Time Lapse Last Night...
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2013, 07:01:55 PM »
Yes, really nice catch!  =D>

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Re: Got Aurora Borealis On Time Lapse Last Night...
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2013, 06:17:34 AM »
Amazing !!!!!  =D> =D> =D>

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Re: Got Aurora Borealis On Time Lapse Last Night...
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2013, 06:49:06 AM »
Great video! Thanks for sharing!!! :-)
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Re: Got Aurora Borealis On Time Lapse Last Night...
« Reply #5 on: June 02, 2013, 08:12:10 AM »
Real nice video!  What camera hardware/software are you using?

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Re: Got Aurora Borealis On Time Lapse Last Night...
« Reply #6 on: June 02, 2013, 10:45:52 AM »
I am using 2 Olympus SP500 cameras with Sebectec software.  Both cams are mounted on remote pan/tilt heads so I can point at different targets.  Right now I have them aligned so I can stitch the two images into a panorama.  The native time lapse video is created as an .mp4 file with the Sebectec software.  This is done at 30fps.  Then I use Sony Vegas to put the "finishing" touches on it.  I can stretch or shrink the timeline to get the playback speed to where I want it.  This also seems to smooth the video a bit, since it is rendered at least 2 times.  For the panorama time lapses I take each time lapse file and put them on adjacent tracks.  I adjust the left image -480 pixels (half of half of 1920) on the x axis and set the y pixels to 540 (half of 1080).  I do the same on the right image only +480 on the x axis.  Then I stretch the timeline to align both tracks.  This will create a side by side video.  I save that file and then open it up as a single video file that I edit further.  It sounds a lot more complicated than it really is....

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Re: Got Aurora Borealis On Time Lapse Last Night...
« Reply #7 on: June 02, 2013, 11:36:27 AM »
Very Very Nice - thank  you for sharing those clips!!



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Re: Got Aurora Borealis On Time Lapse Last Night...
« Reply #8 on: June 03, 2013, 07:42:27 PM »
Simply awesome.

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