On my bucket list are a few things: take a train across Canada; get a tattoo; scuba Tobermory and a few others (and I’d better start writing these down so maybe I can actually accomplish a few of them). One easier thing on the list is to experiment with lapse videos, preferably up at the cottage.
As a proof-of-concept, I put together a short time lapse video. I actually started filming it a day later than I wanted, because the day before there had been a big melt and I wanted to capture the snow vanishing before our eyes. As it turns out, my backyard managed to hang on to the snow for awhile longer and in this video it worked out because of the beautiful shadows travelling across the ground.
I ended up using a combination of iMovie (I have an old version – 8 – which didn’t do it all) and to supplement it using software suggested by Karsten Shluter which is JES Deinterlacer (see Karsten’s post here. The music is by Coeur de Pirate, who is a great one-woman-band from Quebec (check out her music).
So here is the result embedded below. Seeing as this is an “easy once you know how” project, there will definitely be more this year.
