V8 Supercars Timelapse

The old trusty workhorse Canon 7D on time lapse duty V8 Supercar Transporter Covoy leaves Darwin city Yesterday I got a bit of a break ...

The old trusty workhorse Canon 7D on time lapse duty
V8 Supercar Transporter Covoy leaves Darwin city

Yesterday I got a bit of a break from all the editing I somehow managed to accrue for my long service leave and went down to see the V8 transporter convoy doing its annual rounds of the city and back out down the long stretch back to Hidden Valley raceway.

I decided I'd give a quick time lapse of the procession a shot since I'd been trying to find a good location for some other projects in planning.

Now that I have the 5D MKIII as my primary stills camera I have been able to put the 7D to good use as a dedicated video and time lapse rig, which incidentally, is so much more fun than having to constantly switch configurations with a single DSLR.

Since I only need this output at 1280 x 720 I shot all frames at the 7D's small jpeg size of 2592 x 1728 @ 1 fps and resized the resulting sequence in After Effects with faux tilt shift.  This resolution is more than enough and still allows for pans to add movement to your video ( see below ).