Forty-four trillion frames per second? And I have trouble with 30.
JJK

It's a good think chemical reactions don't talk; imagine the audio synch issues!

Mark_e, you might eventually produce that frame rate that way, but it would be useless. You'd miss most of the 140 BILLION things that might happen between frames. Motion interpolation cannot fill in what the camera missed!

The URL is misleading. It's 4.4 trillion, not 44 trillion.

The URL is misleading. It's 4.4 trillion, not 44 trillion.

Not to quibble...

Sorry for not being clear I was taking about the stabalization not the interpolation

High speed photography has certainly revealed things that challenge many things we were taught in school and university.
One of the classics is the good old sodium in water reaction. High speed imaging reveals the explanation our teachers gave us is pure bunk. It's actually the molten sodium metal itself that explodes but no one knows exactly what's going on to cause the explosion. One explanation is that it's a "Coulomb explosion".

Bob.

Has the darkest of ages past? Fascinating stuff.

Anyone wanna keyframe one second footage of that?

VMP

Had a play with my gopro, gimbal, mocha and vegas just a proof of concept but getting close, it's a bit rough just shot in bad light and figured it out yesterday, could smooth it out more now I have basics.
Just a bit of fun, the original research is awesome, just wondered what I could do with what had to hand.

Need excuse to use it now :)

I like the way the hyperlapse article questions the authenticity of the hyperlapse effect and ignores the fact that timelapse is itself entirely artificial. I doubt anyone watching a hyperlapse video is going to assume it's an authentic document of anything. The whole history of photography and film is concerned with representation and is, by definition, inauthentic. The minute a film is edited, and judging by many of these "documents" editing is definitely needed, then even the momentary chance of authenticity is completely lost. During that editing process the misconception that something long and boring represents reality is sacrificed for something that's actually watchable. Long may that tradition, as old as photography, continue!

I'm not sure the hyperlapse videos are completely legit. I tried to follow the original and modified versions, and came to the conclusion that in many cases they are not the same video.

In thinking about this, if you were going to speed something by, let's say, 10x, then the key to the whole thing is to stabilize the video so that every 10th frame lines up. If you first decimate, and then do stabilization, you won't get a good result because the visual information from 10 frames away is so different that any attempt to fill in the borders will look awful. I think there might be a way to force Deshaker to do the right thing by cutting events inside of Vegas and then stabilizing each event individually.

I'll have to think about it.

However, if the video is stable to begin with, you can speed up a lot and get good results. "Spot" recommended the Sony AS100 because, unlike the GoPro Hero 3+ Black, it has built-in stabilization. Right after I bought it, and before I got a suction cup mount to put the camera outside the car, I filmed my ride home, and then sped it up. I did no other manipulation in post, other than applying the speed envelope in Vegas (i.e., I did not apply any additional stabilization). The ride in my 25-year-old Beemer is pretty harsh, and the rural roads here in California are not smooth like they used to be fifty years ago.

Here is the result:



The stabilization in this camera is absolutely amazing.