(also I've been doing the interval timer with the custom firmware available for the Canon series. I never thought I'd be running a CF on my camera (fail) )

Haha I've actually been tempted to get a second hand canon point and shoot to do exactly that. I've made a rotating tripod mount but it won't support a DSLR.

Haha I've actually been tempted to get a second hand canon point and shoot to do exactly that. I've made a rotating tripod mount but it won't support a DSLR.

That was me and my phones fault. Not Beehive.

We were talking about a rotating mount with a stepper motor, and put it on the roof timed to follow the sun so that it's always in the same place in the frame.

I have done these 2.

 

http://youtu.be/Mlc1sTvKKEU

 

http://youtu.be/Ikqindz1qIY

 

But they are a bit of a con. I just upped the frame rate of the video taken. The first one was in HD. I then rendered in SD with a pan/zoom added.

That's cool.

 

this is the best one I've managed so far:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSUsN6tvMMA

 

I think the direction the clouds are moving is really important, side to side doesn't look so impressive as towards/away from the camera.

Excellent, looks like you picked a good day for it. Love the bubbling clouds

This one being automated by my phone....

Premiere = video
Encore = audio

There's another video one then. More for authoring?

After Effects is what I was thinking of. Not exactly authoring.

Yeah, AE is more for compositing. You could do time-lapse in it, I guess, but it's like using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. And a pretty awkward sledgehammer at that.

Yeah, definitely not the right tool.

 

I'd like to learn to use it a bit to even just add simple text overlays to things.

it's very easy to use to do that, although you'd be barely scraping the feature set - most video editors let you do that already built in.

Yeah, definitely very basic. With a few swooshy in out things of text. Nothing fancy.

Like Milko says, most video editors can do that with far less pain.

Indeed. Any suggestions?

 

I always end up going back to whatever I've got installed from Adobe CS because half of the editors out there seem completely shit, or can't handle HD/H264 properly. Or maybe I haven't looked into this enough.

Unfortunately (for you, not me), I use FCP, so that doesn't help. But any of the main Windows competition (Premiere, Vegas etc) should have demo or laddish versions to play with.

Whitby to Edinburgh, a 4 hour drive in 1 minute 6 seconds.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi82KaKVbCw