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Originally posted by Doug&Julie
Very cool video! Bunch of techincal Qs...mostly about the equipment? What did you shoot with? What did you edit with? Tell us all about it!
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I built the camera rigs with 80/20 and 6" woods power grip suction cups (they're usually used for installing glass). They're very friendly to the car's finish, you just have to be careful that you don't build a rig that torques the body panel (or window) too much. I accidentally cracked my windshield
I used 2 high res cigar cameras with interchangeable wide angle lenses. I also used a Canon XL1S and a Panasonic DVX100
Editing was all done with Final Cut Pro on a powermac G5. Animation was done using Shake. Image acquisition and stitching was done with PHP. It took roughly 2 weeks to download the images over broadband and another 36 hours straight for it to stitch them all together. I had to use a special 64bit build for memory reasons (normal 32bit programs can only access 2GB of RAM - this image was 4.6GB).
The final rendering of the satellite scene took about 40 hours to render. Shake lets you use smaller proxy images which I used to map out the animation and get it close to where I wanted it. The proxy images would render much faster than the full resolution image, but it still took a while to get it right
My original plan was to shoot helicopter footage to blend in with the satellite photography, but a complete lack of a budget ruined that for me.