"Nerk at Werk" video

Easily the best edit i've seen here! excellent work!

Laurie give this man the Visions of Summer award pronto!

Thanks everyone, for taking the time to comment, it's much appreciated. I almost forgot it was an internet forum for a moment - where's the sarcasm and nitpicking?

Yes, most of the slowing down is done with Twixtor, and also adding a bit of motion blur to the timelapses so they look less jerky. Twixtor Pro adds options for guiding the process and reducing the dragging of backgrounds behind foreground objects, but it's time consuming and I didn't bother on this video.
It costs far too much! A free option that gives fairly similar results (but needs a bit of computer experience and a much more fiddly workflow) is MVTools with AVISynth and VirtualDub


I used Vegas Pro 11 for this. I'm not a real fan though, except for the audio features which are great. It's always seemed a bit buggy and unpredictable. If you have a decent graphics card, at least V11 will use it to make editing HD compressed files bearable. Free options include 'Lightworks' and 'Blender' if you can work out how to use them!


Yes, just a moving crop. The frames are taken as fairly high res photos, so it's easy to add a bit of pretend camera movement to add interest. (I would like to try moving the camera for real some day.)


That needs a three page answer - I'll try! Briefly, most cameras now record using H264 compression (AVC, AVCHD, MOV, MP4) including Gopros, and all compressed HD files tend to be a pain to edit. SLR's like 550d's have a sensor hugely bigger than handycams and compact cameras, and have the potential to make very cinematic pictures, but are hard work to use, particularly to focus. (Shallow depth of field is an advantage and disadvantage) There are now hybrid cameras with no mirrors that can autofocus while filming and these might be good for surf photography. Many cheaper cameras record HD video, but the lens/sensor/compression combo doesn't resolve the detail, so there's no point. Smaller cameras also interlace the video which complicates effects like Twixtor.


I think the standard one is 55mm-200m, so yes 4x, although I think there's an 18mm-200mm. With a large sensor camera, you have to change lenes to get the zoom range. Kit lenes are generally regarded as a bit fuzzy and too small an aperature to take good stills, but the sharpness is fine for HD video as effectively you are just taking a series of 2megapixel snaps.


Not for the timelapses (not yet anyway - the kitchen timer sounds good). I do use a home made 'over the shoulder camera holder' to help with hand held shots, and the slider shots are done with a little tricycle dolly made with used inline skate wheels...

Appreciate all your answers Nerk.

Kudos man Kudos.
Keep the Vids coming.

Dave.

OMG that is absolutely brilliant! Makes me love living in Newcastle even more. Was a tad bit sad looking out and seeing today's gloomy weather but after watching the video, things have brightened up for me :)

Now..I just need to make a copy so I can pull it out at work when I need a smile.

Thats the best vid Ive seen on the breeze by far, epic!!

some schweeeet face's on those waves

I had that song in my head for hours last night.

what an awesome piece of work .. and so refreshingly non commercial .. and still better and touching the soul much more than many of the advertising videos.
I am blessed to live in such a great country and look at such great images.
well done!
regards
gmd

Great video. You certainly know how to capture the beauty in the elements and in the sports.

No nitpicking because as far as short films about watersports (as in sports carried out on water before the hillarious jokes flow in) this one is as close to perfect as possible - as with many comments if you manage to get on a bigger project let us know!

Awesome Job
have watched it over & over
Your video goes with the song better than the machines original clip

AWESOME

Absolutely Wicked!

Shake It Out
Florence + The Machine