About a year ago or so, my ancient nexus 6 started to wonk out on me so I got a Pixel 6. I discovered that it had slow motion and time lapse video capabilities. At our last official CMASS launch last year in November it occurred to me to actually take a few slow motion videos!
A few interesting features of the video (when replaying on the phone) is that you can tell the video when to play at normal speed and when to play in slow motion... of course once exported to another device (such as your laptop etc.) it only plays in slow motion. There are two settings for slow motion video, 1/8 and 1/4 speed, so I of course did 1/8.... that'll take 30 seconds of shooting and turn it into a 4 minutes of playback, with a really looong lead time if you start recording at the start of a 5 second count! I have to say I thought the results, however, were quite remarkable!
Naturally, I tried windows native video editor and ended up with results where the sound was literally out of sync with the video... but then I found an alternative called "clipchamp"... an Australian company bought out recently (afaict) by Micro$oft, so I hope they don't ruin it. Editing is quite easy with it although the interface isn't always the most intuitive (at least to me). I have not done much of this sort of thing so the criticism should be taken with a grain of salt. Clipchamp is free but there are of course pay-for upgrades (such as cloud storage etc.).
I've attached the video results of two flights... one, my Estes Sahara on an E18, the other is my Ventris on an F39. I'd love to know if anyone out there has any similar items (which I admit have not searched for yet!) The Sahara lift-off is very interesting to me (keep an eye on the exhaust early on!)
A few interesting features of the video (when replaying on the phone) is that you can tell the video when to play at normal speed and when to play in slow motion... of course once exported to another device (such as your laptop etc.) it only plays in slow motion. There are two settings for slow motion video, 1/8 and 1/4 speed, so I of course did 1/8.... that'll take 30 seconds of shooting and turn it into a 4 minutes of playback, with a really looong lead time if you start recording at the start of a 5 second count! I have to say I thought the results, however, were quite remarkable!
Naturally, I tried windows native video editor and ended up with results where the sound was literally out of sync with the video... but then I found an alternative called "clipchamp"... an Australian company bought out recently (afaict) by Micro$oft, so I hope they don't ruin it. Editing is quite easy with it although the interface isn't always the most intuitive (at least to me). I have not done much of this sort of thing so the criticism should be taken with a grain of salt. Clipchamp is free but there are of course pay-for upgrades (such as cloud storage etc.).
I've attached the video results of two flights... one, my Estes Sahara on an E18, the other is my Ventris on an F39. I'd love to know if anyone out there has any similar items (which I admit have not searched for yet!) The Sahara lift-off is very interesting to me (keep an eye on the exhaust early on!)
