NEWS
Camera triggering for animation
This is not strictly motion control, but for this job I built a system to syncronise a digital stills camera and a moving car.
NISSAN - Design in Motion from Carl Burke on Vimeo.
Nissan 'Design in motion' behind the scenes from James Medcraft DP on Vimeo.
SFX Triggering with motion control
In this commercial the table flipping was triggered at exactly the same time from timecode coming from and audio track that also triggered the playback and motion control.
Stella Artois I It's time to dine again from unit+sofa on Vimeo.
Flipping Heck | Stella Artois - BTS from Sam Pilling on Vimeo.
Speed ramping with Motion Control
Speed ramps for motion control were simple enough with film cameras, but have been a bit tough for digital cameras. I was asked to do a speed ramp for a commercial last August. This was an idea I had been thinking about for a long time, I built some hardware to process the sync pulses from a set 25fps source (in theory the camera) and a “Fake” camera that I had built that pretended to be a film camera. A Raspberry Pi then created a text file with the number of the frame we needed to extract. The rushes were then turned into DPX files and the relevant files extracted by a script.
We made a system to extract low resolution files to make a “Video Assist” to deliver the ramped image in a shorter time.
© Justin Pentecost, 2023.