Here is a fun video I put together of the drive to and from Moab.
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September 28th, 2009 at 12.55 pm
How do you accomplish this recording?
September 28th, 2009 at 5.09 pm
The first part of this project was to make a camera mount, in complete unscientific wonder I used about a dozen zip ties to lash a small tripod to the headrest of my passenger seat. Then I attached the camera to it.
I took a Canon PowerShot A70 and plugged it into an external power supply (so batteries aren’t an issue) then ran a USB cord between that and a Windows laptop. Then using PSRemote I set the computer to take a snapshot with the camera once every ten seconds and save them to the laptop (bypassing the cameras storage). I set this up for the 700 mile drive to Moab and the return.
Once I got home I took all the photos I had (many thousands!), copied them to my Macintosh, and brought them into Final Cut Pro, each photo was a single frame in duration. Then I simply dumped them to a timeline and edited out stops. Once I was done I compressed it just a hair to fit the song.
There are more automated ways of doing this I’m sure but I tend to do things the difficult way. The nice thing about doing it that way is I had full control of the entire project and now have thousands of high quality photographs of hundreds of miles of Interstate!