Very creative way to show 2700+ pictures in less than 8 mins.

2009 January 28th
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This is Japan

Eric Testroete, after his trip to Japan ended up with 3000+ pictures he took, about 46 gigs of files. He made a video with 2700+ pictures of his trip. The video is titled “This is Japan” and is less than eight minutes in length. So, if you want to show thousand of pictures in a few minutes, this is a great way to show them.

We never went there with the plan to do this, but one night we were looking at the pictures so far. We held down the button to get through the pictures faster and we noticed it looked fairly cool. I figured it would be a good idea to make a video this way.

I used lightroom to crop and process all the images (its good at doing batch stuff), Métamorphose to rename the exported files into a numbered sequence, sony vegas to cut to music, then virtual dub to compress and scale.

The video is running at 6 frames a second. I originally took 3340 pictures, but doing the math there should be about 2760 images in the video. The camera was a pentax k20d and I brought an external hard drive to save what ended up being 46 gigs in raw files.

You can watch his video here:


Please let me know what you think of this “technique”, and also if you know or have done a similar video, please post a link in the comments.

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    • http://floris.dekker.com Floris

      I think it’s an awesome technique, the quality of the pictures really makes it into something great if you ask me.

    • http://blog.dcdomain.org dc

      Hehe loved how he started out the trip at Super Potato in Akihabara. Was about to make a comment about not visiting Tsukiji but it looks like he did visit some sort of fish market at 5:40 and towards the end. I think I saw the Toyota museum in Nagoya too right?

      Great video. He just need to visit the north / Nagano and the Ghibli Museum next time you visit. And maybe spend some time on TokyoArtBeat.com and check out the galleries.

      Thanks for bringing back so many wonderful memories of my own trip.

    • http://www.bluedesigns.com Carlos B

      Floris: I agree with you, the pictures have an amazing resolution. Also, I liked the song he used.

    • Gary

      Loved it!!! Tweeted it here:

      http://bit.ly/ALkI

    • http://vacaburra.blogspot.com Prometeo

      I was quite sceptical at the begining as I have seen other similar videos. But the quality of the pics is brilliant, the rithim and the colors, …absolutely brilliant.
      Would love to know whose is the song!

    • http://www.pixelelement.com Carlos B

      Prometeo: the song he used is LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends from Sound of Silver.

      Where are you guys finding this story?
      From what website are you coming?

    • Antonio

      Now I must travel to Japan no more

      Just amazing!

      I turned down your music as I was listening samba in a program of Brazilian music, and it was beautiful, after 10 seconds (may be) since the son finished I found myself with my eyes crossed listening the next song.
      I mean the video sometimes changes too fast from a spot to another and my mind disconnected

      May be it could be better with a long softer song like the last 5.5 min (out of 9.5) from this one:

      http://www.goear.com/listen.php?v=6033ce9

      (The guitars’ twanging follows the rithm of the photos almost exactly -but’one man’s meat is another man’s poison-)

    • http://www.onelargeprawn.co.za onelargeprawn

      This is tops. Thanks for sharing this. I put it up on my blog as well :)

    • luke

      Fantastic. Reminds me of my trip so bad. Your lady friend is very pretty too. Keep up the good work

    • ana

      Reminded me of the music video for Smashing Pumpkin’s thirty three which was entirely made of pictures made in stop motion. :)

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xc9ZbS4KMdg

    • mark

      It actually hurt my “eyes” or head or something to watch this. Perhaps slower would have served *me* better.

    • person

      that was amazing
      perfect
      i cant believe how well it reflected the culture
      and the music fit great as well

    • http://caseymckinnon.com Casey McKinnon

      I’ve actually been making videos in this style for about a year and a half, but using creative self-portraits. My recent video is here: http://www.caseymckinnon.com/blog/personal/2009/05/01/daily-self-portrait-outtakes-april-2009/

      I wasn’t the first, though… I actually got the idea from my friend (and amazing photographer) Lan Bui, who makes “picture videos” of events. Here’s the video that truly inspired me… his picture video from Comic Con 2007: http://www.videoofthemoment.com/2007/07/comic-con-2007-picture-video.html

      Enjoy!
      Casey

    • Larry

      Thanks for sharing — very cool. I am utterly exhausted from watching it. This is like a next generation flip book. The fast pace of the frames and the music beat are a good match for the frenetic city shots, but don’t do justice to the beautiful nature scenes. You have tons of amazing vivid images here, many of which I would like to see for more than 1/6 of a second.

    • http://www.pixelelement.com Carlos B

      Guys thanks for your comments!!!

      Casey: I loved your video too, thanks for the link.

    • http://caseymckinnon.com Casey McKinnon

      Thanks, Carlos! And, btw, I use each photo for 3 frames when editing on a project that’s 30fps. Double the speed of This is Japan which I like, but it also means there’s less time to process each photo :/

    • zach

      very, very cool idea.

      reddit.

    • K

      Hey!

      I’m sorry but i luv your idea so much that I’ll have to STEAL it entirely! I’ve been looking for an idea of how to summarize my travels, and this is PERFECT! I hope you don’t mind. (And yes, due to the lack of imagination, I’ll be stealing the song as well!)

      Now the hard part: Get the software and figure out how the heck to use it.

      Cheers!

    • K

      Um….how do you set the rate at which photo’s change? ..i’m way over my head here!!!

    • http://abram22.com Abram

      I made a very similar video to these about my first 5 years of living in Japan. You can watch it here:

      http://www.abram22.com/2009/04/5-years-in-japan-in-3-minutes.html

    • http://www.pixelelement.com Carlos B

      Abram:
      thanks for the link to your video. I just watched it. Very cool pictures.

      Carlos (www.pixelelement.com)

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    • http://www.blue-world.co.uk/wce Garreth

      @K if you’re using Virtualdub to stich the images together, you’ll want to use ‘Set frame rate’ i think it’s in a video menu.

      I’ve wanted to do something like this for ages, after I saw 10,000 pictures video on youtube. This is very well done!

      I want to know what did you do about portrait photos? I didn’t notice any in the video but imagine it’d spoil the effect if it snapped to a portrait from a landscape w ith black bars or something

    • http://SelfEnterpriser.com Dave Charbonneau

      Love it! How long start to finish? Makes me want to take pictures AND screen-shots as I create my 90-day projects to show them start to finish. Kind of a shrine to each micro-project. Thanks.

      –Dave Charbonneau, Guy Who Does Stuff
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