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What?! Is that a squadron of commercial airliners?! Not quite, but through the magic of editing, it sure looks like it. With the help of Adobe Premier, Cy Kuckenbaker took five hours of plane landings on Black Friday and condensed them down into just thirty seconds using composite and timelapse techniques like the ones seen in Empty America. The result is a staggering vision of some sort of commercial jetliner apocalypse, and it’s damn cool. [PetaPixel]
LOUD, VERY LOUD
Nice concept, but not really a timelapse as described. The foreground bridge is the only thing that has been timelapsed, seemingly purely for effect. The planes look like they were filmed in real time. The sky looks like a animated pan on a still image, as the small whispy clouds don’t move or diffuse. So it is a compositional montage, that does have one timelapsed element in it but that isn’t the subject of the film.
You can’t do composites like this in Premiere Pro – perhaps you mean After Effects?
There’s also surprisingly little variety in the planes. As each one would need rotoscoping (cutting out from the background) so it could be comped over the fake sky, it looks like he couldn’t be bothered to do more than a few and just repeated them.
I think he would have shot the planes against a clear blue sky to act as blue screen, and then comped the bridge into the foreground layer and animated sky as the backdrop.
You could technically do all that in Premiere but it would be a silly job to do in editing software, pain in the arse dealing with so many layers in Premiere.
Just looked up how this was made and I was right about everything. Bridge is timelapsed from other location and added for time effect, sky is a panned still image, and planes were chroma keyed off a clear blue sky, then edited in Premiere on 40 tracks.
The ability to watch a short clip and technically work out how everything was shot and comped is a pointless talent, but I even impressed myself with this one – but then I thought maybe I am overstating my abilities as a result of his shoddy and transparent technical skills
http://www.petapixel.com/2012/12/01/five-hours-of-airplane-landings-captured-in-thirty-seconds/
Haha, I pity you!
I pity me too.