THON Timelapse Videos

As promised, I finished the videos for THON 09. Above is the one combining two different angles. One angle is from the catwalks and one is from my a camera attached to the bottom of the BJC scoreboard.

For the wide angle of the video, I used an old Canon S500 point and shoot camera connected to a laptop on the catwalks of the BJC. The camera was controlled by a piece of software called GBTimelapse which told the camera to take a picture every 30 seconds and download it onto the computer’s harddrive.

Since I didn’t have the luxury of space to fit a laptop on the scoreboard, I connected my Canon 1D Mark II camera to the bottom of the scoreboard with a Magic Arm and controlled it with an intervalometer to take a picture each minute (because I was worried that I’d fill up the memory card). You can see the scoreboard going down and up in the video – this is when I set up the camera.

Here are links to the individual cameras videos.
Wide Camera
Overhead Camera

Hit the jump to see photos of the setup.

Here is the camera attached to the bottom of the scoreboard.

You can see the intervalometer on the right of the image sitting on the ledge.

These are some of my catwalk cameras. To the left, is the point and shoot connected to the laptop that was used for the wide timelapse. The camera to the right is a D2Hs with the 10.5mm fisheye on it controlled by a pocketwizard.

This is the laptop that was connected to the camera which controlled the wide timelapse video. We had to put caution tape over it so no one would trip over it.