Over the past few months I’ve been messing about with different software to help me record some time-lapse video with the aim of making a short movie. Well here is a 3 and a half minute video I’ve managed to make by editing together 10 different time-lapse videos taken from the windows here at the office. Soon there may be more movies uploaded to my YouTube channel so take a look. Hope you enjoy it!
A friend of mine on Twitter brought my attention to this uber clever stop motion film from Takeuchi Taijin. Photographed first and then filmed again – the overall result is cracking.
Ever wanted to create an super realistic miniature model and then painstakingly craft a time lapse video? No me neither, but thanks to the amazing technique of Tilt Shift photography you don’t have to – just find a suitable location in the real world and choreograph each… OK maybe it would be easier to create a model.
As we all know, Macs are vastly superior to PCs. Seems like Microsoft knows it too. It has been discovered that the recent ‘I’m a PC’ TV ads were actually created on a Mac! Apparently, a Flickr user called LuisDS made the ironic discovery after looking at some of the metadata embedded in the video file. It was made on a Mac using Adobe CS3 software. Microsoft kind of defended itself by saying:
“As is common in almost all campaign workflow, agencies and production houses use a wide variety of software and hardware to create, edit, and distribute content, including both Macs and PCs.”
OK, they fobbed it off onto the Ad Agency, which as we all know use Macs. That’s not the end of Microsoft’s tale of deception though…
A new ad for a Windows only piece of software called ‘SongSmith’ has just been released. This lets the user start singing and the software creates a tune on the fly. Sounds fun, wish they had it for the Mac…
Going off the TV ad it would appear the software IS available for Mac users as it is shown running on a MacBook Pro!
They’ve attempted to cover the Apple logo with stickers but it’s still easilly identifyable as a MacBook. 20 seconds later it’s shown running on a real PC laptop that looks about 6 inches thick.
Here’s the ad. I’m sure the general cheesyness of the ad must be intentional, although why I can’t imagine. There’s a really funny part where one guy says “Microsoft huh? so it must be really easy to use”
It has been suggested that the placement of the MacBook is intentional so as to cause a storm and be a viral hit on youtube. Perhaps, but if that was the case you’d make damn sure you did a good job on the ad, make it on a Mac even.
