Context aware fill for video
Context aware fill is a fascinating and magical technology. It was previously limited to still images, but Adobe ups the bar by making it available for video clips.
What a wild world we live in.
Slowing down the past
Hot on the heals of Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old, restoration of old films using lots of fascinating new techniques is hitting mainstream. One of those technologies being to slow down the old hand-crank ~10fps movies that play too fast when put on modern ~30fps transfers.
Videographer Guy Jones slows down film from the late 1800s to early 1900s to more accurately match the speed at which modern footage is recorded and played. In addition to editing the pace of the century-old film, Jones also adds in sound effects to make the scenes more relatable.
Check out his Youtube channel for more of these amazing edits.
Quick hyperlapse of 2018 Burning Man art
New York City in 12K video
Set the Youtube video settings to 4320p and watch a 12K video capture of New York downtown from the helicopter mounted Shotover K1 Hammerhead Aerial Camera Array.
Oregon as a Ghibli film
Wow – just wow!!! Amazing job Travel Oregon! Apparently the paired with Psyop who brought on an additional studio Sun Creature to assist in this ad campaign called ‘Only Slightly Exaggerated’
Almost everything in the video is a real place/thing in Oregon. Here’s a breakdown – let me know if I missed anything, or you think I got it wrong. Click on the images for larger versions!
2. Could be any lake near Mt Hood, but likely is Trillium Lake:
5. Willamette Valley Wineries:
6. Willamette Valley Wine & Balloon tours:
7. Cannon Beach – Haystack rock:
8. Cannon Beach from Ecola Park:
9. Crater Lake:
10. Black Rock Mountainbiking trails near Falls City:
11. Portland:
12. Dragon Boat Racing in Portland:
11. The Wallowas – almost exactly this shot:
12. Kiger Mustangs – Steens Mountains/Kiger Creek:
13. Whitewater Rafting is many places, but it looks like it might be the Rogue River (top). It might also be the Deschutes (bottom pic). Some have suggested it is the White Salmon River (but that is in Washington):
14. Think this is Tom McCall Preserve (top picture). Or it might be a from Dog Mountain(bottom pic), but that is on the Washington side of the Columbia Gorge:
15. Three Sister’s from around Sisters, OR:
Remove objects from your videos
Adobe Photoshop has an amazing feature called context aware fill. But it was only available on still images. Now you can do it with video. While I do see a small tick here or there, it does a pretty good job with temporal smoothness.
4k Stormscapes
Storm chaser Chad Cowan has spent over 10,000 hours documenting supercells across the United States. Here are some of the gems in his archives. Watch in 4K if you can.
FRACTAL – 4k StormLapse from Chad Cowan on Vimeo.
Hiking the Upper Salmonberry River Trail
Somewhere in the coastal range, there is an abandoned rail line that has some epic bridges and tunnels. I had a wonderful 8 mile hike along some abandoned rail in the Oregon coastal mountain range.
Saltscapes
Australian photographer Murray Fredericks journeys to the center of Lake Eyre, a desert salt lake. Fredericks drags all of his equipment out into the barren landscape, capturing the dramatic sky reflected in both the inch-deep water and his rectangular mirror. The images are breathtaking color-based works.
Japanese cherry blossoms
Jack Johnson captured this stunning 4K flyover of Japan’s cherry blossom trees. With the help of an app called Litchi, he was able to repeat his drone’s flight path over time to show them gradually blossoming.