Light Rail Inauguration--the "video"

Seattle's Light Rail Inaugural from Doug Plummer on Vimeo.

I took some 800 photos during the day, a lot of them in quick succession. At 6fps they actually hold together. Here's the day in under a minute.

Comments

[Jeff H]

Cool Video! Love your music choice. The motion and then beat of the music work great together.

[Sandi Pitts]

What program did you use to put the photos together? My husband takes lots of photos and just the other day I told him he should put them together in a video but I don't quite know how to do it.
Thanks, Doug, love your blog!
Sandi

[Doug Plummer]

Here's the recipe. You need Quicktime Pro for starters (sorry, I only know how to do this on a Mac). Go File--Open Image Sequence and pick the first image in the folder where you've compiled the shots you want to combine. You can pick the fps rate here too.

If you save it, it'll run on its own in Quicktime, but it will need to be rendered if you then open it up in a video editing program. It's better to Export it to another video format, then you can edit it to your heart's content, like I did in Final Cut here.