👁️‍🗨️ Viewly 👁️‍🗨️ Making a timelapse video and a new logo build

New Original Content coming to Viewly!

I've been pulling some all-nighters doing the graphics for D5 which is a project I'm working on with @starkerz and @patrickm.
It's a new video series created especially for Viewly. Thanks to @furion and everyone working on the Viewly project. and a little behind the scenes photos from filming the city scenes.

I used the timelapse in the background

Here's the full video

Here's the link to the viewly test post

I needed some good footage for the logo builds. I used my old GoPro 3+ Silver Edition. It doesn't shoot in 4K, but the still camera shoots 10MP so a timelapse shot was a good option. Even though I'm doing this project in 1080p I've been wanting to start switching to 4K so this was a good chance to do some tests.

I also have a few useful accessories. Firstly, a strong clamp helps, especially with strong gusts of wind. Then I had a choice of whether or not to use the LCD back. Without the back, the battery would last longer and I'd be able to get more footage. I decided to use it in the end because I would be able to frame my shots properly and test the different configurations.

There are some amazing views in the apartment where I stay so that was an easy choice for a test location. Initially I set the camera to one image every 10 seconds.

I also has some setbacks along the way. Once, I stayed up all night and started capturing at 4am to catch the sunrise. I had a lot of hope for this shot.

I was really exited as the files started copying off the camera. I opened up one or two photos as they were copying and I was optimistic, the quality looked great. I rendered a video and pressed play.

It was looking pretty good and just as the sun started to rise, the video flickered. As you can imagine I was somewhat disappointed, especially after staying up all night. I had a couple hours sleep and woke up refreshed and ready for another attempt.

The sunrise shoot didn't work out so well, but perhaps I would have more luck with the sunset. I picked the most unobstructed spot and set the camera to one photo every half second, hoping the battery would last until the sun had set. I tried to judge how long it would last and hit record.

I sat down to enjoy a well deserved beer and watched the camera flashing away growing more and more pleased as the sun turned red, then slowly descended over the buildings.

I was elated when the camera was still shooting after the giant red orb had descended over the horizon. Not five minutes past sunset, the camera flashed one last time and then turned off.

Ten thousand photos! That's more than six minutes of footage. That meant I could even experiment with some time remapping as well. I had to wait to find out, though. It took more than an hour to copy the photos from my camera.

The late night shots I took of the city traffic after the sun had set were the ones I ended up using for the new Viewly & D5 intro logo.

Thanks for reading
@deimus